Jeffrey Heier, M.D. has served as our Chief Scientific Officer since February 2024. Dr. Heier previously served as a member of our board of directors from September 2015 until February 2024. Since 1998, Dr. Heier has worked as a vitreoretinal specialist at Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, or OCB, a large multi-specialty ophthalmology practice with several offices in the Boston, Massachusetts area, where he served as Co-President and Medical Director from 2016 to 2020, and has served as the Director of Vitreoretinal Service since 2009 and the Director of Retina Research since 2011. He is a partner of the Boston Eye Surgery and Laser Center and was previously a partner of the Cape Cod Eye Surgery and Laser Center and the Plymouth Eye Surgery and Laser Center. Dr. Heier has served in leadership roles of several professional organizations including as an executive board member and past president of each of the New England Ophthalmological Society and the Retina Society, and he previously served as a board member of American Society of Retina Specialists from 2011 to 2024. Dr. Heier holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from Brandeis University and an M.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Heier completed his vitreoretinal fellowship at OCB / Tufts School of Medicine and served as a physician in a Combat Support Hospital in the Persian Gulf War, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star.