Aditya Vikram Mishra, MD, FRCC (1961-2017)

Aditya Mishra was born on June 15, 1961, in Rajasthan, India, to Raghunandan and Sarvada Mishra. He emigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1966. He received his bachelor of science degree with distinction in 1980 and his medical doctorate also with distinction from Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1984. After an internship at Dalhousie University, he did general practice/emergency department practice in Cape Breton; Bathurst, New Brunswick; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, from July 1985 to June 1986. He became an ophthalmic pathology fellow in July 1986 and completed his ophthalmology residency at Dalhousie University in 1990, where he scored at the 99th percentile on the Ophthalmology Knowledge Assessment Program 3 years in a row. He practiced general ophthalmology in Moncton, New Brunswick, for 1 year.