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