Dr. Hodge is a professor of ophthalmology and the chair of the Ivey Eye Institute, University of Western Ontario. Dr. Hodge did his medical training and ophthalmology residency at McGill University. He then did a fellowship in cornea and uveitis at University of California San Francisco & Stanford. While there, he did a Masters degree in clinical epidemiology at UC Berkeley and completed a PhD in clinical epidemiology back at McGill. His first 12 years of practice were at the University of Ottawa Eye Institute before moving to London.
Dr. Hodge's research pursuits have been in clinical trials, health service research, systematic reviews and population projections of eye disease in Canada. He holds or has held an NIH grant for a systematic review, three CIHR grants for health service research and a PSI grant for an ophthalmic randomized clinical trial.
Dr. Hodge has been extensively involved in resident and medical education. He has received his department's award as outstanding teacher three times and received the University of Ottawa's PAIRO teaching award for the most outstanding teacher in the faculty of medicine in 2005. He was a finalist for the University's local faculty wide most outstanding teacher once as well.
Dr. Hodge has held a busy administrative portfolio as well. He is the CIHR clinical research scientific officer and was the secretary of the Royal College Test Committee in Ophthalmology. He has also been the president of the external evaluation committee for eye research for FRSQ in the province of Quebec.
In his spare time Dr. Hodge tries to keep up with his wife and 4 children. He enjoys watching and playing hockey or tennis. Whenever possible he tries to combine a vacation while taking in an international hockey tournament. These travels have taken him to North Dakota, London England and Torino Italy.
