Ian Cox Email & Phone Number

Honeoye Falls, Ny

• Knowledgeable industry-based researcher with 28 years’ experience in ophthalmic Medical Device development from feasibility through post launch• Responsible for conduct of Phase 1 Through Phase 4 clinical studies for ophthalmic Medical Devices• Experience leading technical project teams during feasibility/development stages of product development• Skilled at facilitating communication between clinicians and engineering staff by translating clinical needs into design goals, inputs and outputs• Functional management experience with large technical group, providing strategic guidance for individual and function expansion and technical development.• Direct reporting to senior management providing technical input to shape short, medium and long term strategic plans• Experienced guiding collaborative research efforts with academic partners, funded through corporate and government grants.

Adjunct Professor in the Center for Visual Science supporting doctoral and post doctoral students in research using adaptive optics to improve retinal image quality in both single vision and presbyopic corrections for refractive surgery, IOL and contact lens applications. Liaison with full time faculty and university administrative staff to facilitate and manage co-operative academic/corporate research programs funded by corporate and government sources.

Rochester, New York Area

Innovative clinically trained researcher with a focus on physiological optics in relation to contact lenses, refractive surgery and intraocular lenses, as a pathway to new design and development techniques and technologies. Skilled in product development from initial feasibility through scale-up and regulatory approval and into market launch and post launch support activities. Experienced as both a project manager and functional manager of highly skilled technical groups. Comfortable working with all levels of management, and an excellent communicator with small through large audiences. Most recently focused on all aspects of improving visual performance in contact lenses for the correction of myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia.

Rochester, Ny

Head of optical design, mechancial lens design and the advanced tooling design departments at Bausch & Lomb.Leader of highly technical team (3 PhD, 8 MS, 6 BS, 2 AS) responsible for providing direction and support for all contact lens related projects.

Rochester, Ny

Research Program Director running early stage device feasibility projects. Currently focused on improving visual perfromance in contact lenses for the correction of myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia. Also focused on improving distance and near visual performance in pseudophakic eyes with multifocal and accommodating IOL options.

Rochester, Ny

Director for Phase 1 through Phase 4 Clinical Studies in the Bausch & Lomb Refractive Surgery Business supporting Global Regulatory submissions for diagnostic instruments, excimer lasers and microkeratomes in addition to Commercial claims generation.

Rochester, Ny

Technical Lead in Contact Lens and Refractive Surgery Research & Development Projects. Early development efforts of diagnostic wavefront sensor (Zywave) to establish population norms, use in development of wavefront-guided custom soft contact lenses, use in multifocal and aspheric lens development, and ultimate use in wavefront-guided LASIK procedures.

Rochester, Ny

Developed the use of computers in the exam room to expand and expedite the clinical research capabilities of the Bausch + Lomb Research Clinic, adding real-time electronic data capture, slit lamp based digital images and video, touch screen controlled electronic surveys in the waiting room, at a time that this was not the accepted norm for the industry.

Rochester, Ny

Continued conducting small scale clinical studies as part of a larger research team investigating lens designs including bifocal and multifocal lenses, toric lenses, and novel spherical lens designs, several of which were ultimately launched as commercially successful products.

Rochester, Ny

Conducted small scale clinical research studies focusing on factors driving soft lens fitting performance (movement, centration and comfort), and overnight corneal swelling performance with hydrogel and silicone lens materials. Developed randomized computer generated logMAR visual acuity charts for use in the Bausch + Lomb Research Clinic.

Ph.D., Vision, Contact Lenses

Activities and Societies: Tutor and Clinical Supervisor 1981 - 1985Thesis Title: Vision With Soft Contact Lenses. I investigated the areas.

B.Optom., Optometry, Honors Class 2, Division 1