Scott Barnes - STANLEY ELECTRIC Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Scott D. Barnes, M.D., serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Company. Dr. Barnes comes to STAAR after a distinguished 30year career with the military, retiring at the rank of Colonel. Since 2004, Dr. Barnes has served as Chief of Ophthalmology Services, Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Soon after he joined Womack, he was asked to serve as the theater ophthalmology consultant and surgeon in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005. In 2006, he returned to Womack as Chief of Refractive Surgery and helped to establish the use of ICLs in the Army. In 2008, Colonel Barnes was awarded the Army Surgeon General A designator, similar to the level of professor at a civilian institution. Dr. Barnes began his medical career in 1986 as a research assistant in the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical SchoolChildren Hospital in Boston and in 1991 became a general surgery intern at William Beaumont Army Medical Center. He went on to become a Special Forces Battalion and Group Surgeon as well as the Deputy Surgeon for the US Army Special Operations Command. He completed an ophthalmology residency at the Wilford HallBrooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas in 1998. Colonel Barnes held numerous ophthalmology positions at a number of military bases and was asked to serve as the Deputy Commander for Clinical Services for all combat trauma, medical, veterinary, and dental care in Afghanistan during a 13month deployment in 20112012. Under Colonel Barnes direction at Fort Bragg, more than 3, 000 ICLs have been implanted in the eyes of our nation servicemen and women since 2017.