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James J. Wiens, M.D., FRCSC medical director

James J. Wiens, MD, FRCSC, is the owner and Medical Director of Image Plus Laser Eye Centre and has been performing laser vision correction in Winnipeg since 1994. He was the first ophthalmologist to offer IntralaseR, 100% blade-free Lasik, in Western Canada. He is personally involved in selecting the laser technology used at Image Plus, and will only invest in laser with a proven track record of safety and effectiveness.

Dr. Wiens underwent laser vision correction training in Germany and the United States, completing his VISXR certification in 1999. His recommendation for treatment is made by taking into account a patient’s personal vision needs, desires, and the condition of their eyes. His goal is to provide each patient with quality vision using laser-only technology with a proven history of excellent results and safety.

After finishing his opthalmology residency at McGill University in 1987, he completed a further year of training in corneal and external diseases at McGill.

Dr. Wiens began his ophthalmology practice in Winnipeg at the Health Sciences Centre in 1988. He chose to go into private practice in 1990, preferring to focus his practice toward clinical care. Along with laser vision correction, his practice includes corneal and cataract surgery. He has lectured medical students and participates in providing continuing medical education to physician and other medical personnel about ophthalmology.

Non-laser treatments offered by Dr. Wiens include intacs, Phakic intraocular lenses, cataract surgery, VISIAN TICL, and DSEK corneal tranplants.


Guillermo Rocha, M.D., FRCSC

Guillermo Rocha, M.D., FRCSC has been intensely involved in both basic and clinical research, in the areas of corneal wound healing, refractive surgery, ocular immunology and corneal graft rejection. He has presented his work on refractive and therapeutic excimer laser surgery, LASIK, Holmium Laser Thermokeratoplasty and correction of astigmatism and numerous meetings. In 1995, he was awarded the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation & Medial research Council of Canada Resident Research Award for his work on the causative factors of ocular inflammation.

He received his Ophthalmology training from McGill University in Montreal, where he was appointed Chief Resident.

Dr. Rocha has been involved in numerous publications, including the publication of a book on Advances in Refractive and Corneal Surgery. He has over 60 published citations including book chapters, major topic reviews, medical journal articles and abstracts of studies presented in international meetings.

Dr. Rocha has also been the Associate Editor and Cornea Section Editor for the international journal Techniques in Ophthalmology, past Editor-in-Chief of Online Clinical Communications for Ophthalmologists and co-Editor of two books, Advances in Refractive and Corneal Surgery and Surgical Correction of Astigmatism.

He is currently the Canadian delegate for the Keratomileusis Study Group and the coordinator of the Canadian BioMask Study Group, the goal of which is to test new procedures for the correction of complications from ocular surgery.

Dr. Rocha feels that with the technological advances, surgical vision correction is now a real option to be considered by those who would like to decrease their dependence on glasses or contact lenses. Different laser eye surgery techniques exist, and both surgeon and patient must decide which technique is best in a given case. Dr. Rocha’s philosophy is that surgical vision correction should be approached in a professional, unhurried fashion, so that quality can prevail, and optimum results can be obtained.

Dr. Rocha is originally from Mexico City, where he obtained his MD from the Universidad Anahuac Medical School. He completed an internship at the American British Cowdray Hospital, after which he spent a year learning microsurgical techniques in the arena of microvascular surgery.

He has completed two Fellowships, one in ocular Immunology and Inflammation (McGill University), a subsequent one in Cornea, External Diseases and Refractive Surgery at the University of South Florida, in Tampa.

During this year he worked with two of the principal investigators for the Intra-Corneal Ring Segments (INTACS).

He returned to Mexico in 1996, where he coordinated courses in corneal topographic analysis and refractive surgery, and developed personal nomograms in vision correction.

From his work in the United States, Mexico and Canada, Dr. Rocha has appreciated the evolution of refractive surgery by learning from numerous mentors. He has had exposure to:

  • Radial and astigmatic keratotomy (with diamond blade)
  • Keratomileusis by corneal freezing and Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty (ALK) – Both are predecessors of LASIK
  • PRK
  • LASIK
  • Therapeutic use of the excimer laser

Recently, he has become involved with the INTACS, and has written on the use of phakic intraocular lenses. For more information please visit Dr. Rocha's website at www.grmc.ca

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