We Put The "EYE" In Team™
Our Team
Elizabeth Jeffords, MBT
CEO & President
Erin Newman
Chief Development Officer
Shannon Dahl, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Heather Berger, PhD
Chief Business Officer
Bryan Boyle, JD, PhD
Chief Legal & Administrative Officer
Roxane Li
Director of Project Management & Chief of Staff
Rick Graham, PhD
Head of CMC/Formulations
Hovik Gukasyan, PhD
Head of Pharmacology
Rose Verhoeven, MTox
Head of
Non-Clinical/Tox
Houman Hemmati, MD, PhD
Head of Medical
John Snyder
Head of Finance & Accounting
Lisa Tuomi, PharmD
Head of IR, PR, & Medical Communications
Board of Directors
Linda Grais, MD, JD (Chair)
Stanford, ICON, Ocera, Interwest
Don Frail, PhD
Fmr Allergan, Pfizer, Frazier
Elizabeth Jeffords, MBT
CEO & President
Nadia Waheed, MD, MPH
Tufts Medical Center, Gyroscope, Ocular Therapeutix
Dan Estes, PhD
Frazier Life Sciences
Sesha Neervannan, PhD
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals
Clinical Advisory Board
Penny Asbell, MD, FACS, MBA, FARVO
University of Memphis
Esen Akpek, MD
Johns Hopkins
Pedram Hamrah, MD
Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine
Ruwan A. Silva, MD
Stanford University
Stephen Pflugfelder, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Scientific Advisory Board
David W. Osborne, PhD
Arcutis Biotherapeutics
Ruwan A. Silva, MD
Stanford University
Bhaskar Chaudhuri, PhD
Frazier Life Sciences
Veena Viswanath, PhD
Escient Pharma, Allergan