ASCRS 2019 Speakers

Dr. David Friess joined STAAR Surgical in 2016 and is Vice President, North America Clinical Strategy and Professional Affairs, serving on STAAR’s Executive Management Team…

As the Vice President of Marketing, Surgical, Patrick Smale leads the marketing team supporting Sight Sciences’ MIGS device, the OMNI Surgical System. He joined Sight…

Erin Schallhorn Powers is the Senior Director for Medical Affairs and Professional Education for Carl Zeiss Meditec’s Ophthalmic Devices business unit. Erin has been in…

Tom Brunner joined Glaucoma Research Foundation in 2003 after a successful 30-year career in the ophthalmic laser business. He helped introduce major advances in eye…

Griff leads the J&J Vision Surgical Instrumentation R&D organization that is responsible for developing corneal refractive and cataract laser, phacoemulsification, dry eye and ocular diagnostics…

H. George Tanaka, MD, is a fellowship-trained glaucoma surgeon who has been in practice for over 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He…

Derek S. Welsbie, M.D., Ph.D., is a glaucoma specialist at the University of California, San Diego. An Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Shiley Eye…

Patrick Mooney is Vice President and Head of the Ophthalmology Franchise at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Patrick is responsible for the overall strategy and growth of…

Rafael Chan is currently VP/Chief Commercial Officer for New World Medical. Prior to New World Medical, Rafael held various management positions at Alcon across the…