VCH eye surgeons become first in BC to perform new life-changing night vision surgery – Vancouver Coastal Health
October 6 2025
Vancouver Coastal Health eye surgeons have performed surgery to correct inherited night vision loss on two patients at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) with a new retinal gene therapy.
As a baby, Dominic Juillette was always attracted to light.
“We have a big bay window in my living room and he took over my window sill,” says his grandma and caregiver, Linda McInnis. “Everybody used to say, ‘Who’s that little boy in the window?’ and I’d say, ‘Well, that’s my grandson and that’s the only place he can see.’”
Now 15 years old and a Grade 10 honour roll student at Fort St. James Secondary School, Dominic has become one of the first patients in BC to receive the new retinal gene therapy and he is the first Indigenous person in Canada to receive it.
