TheraTears was developed by Jeffrey P. Gilbard, MD, in the clinics and laboratories of the Schepens Eye Research Institute. The Schepens Eye Research Institute is the largest nonprofit institution in the world dedicated to the fight against blinding and painful eye conditions. Arising from this heritage, Advanced Vision Research remains committed to eye research and the mission of developing major advances in the treatment of eye disease.
About the inventor Dr. Gilbard
In the summer of 1976, as a medical student, Dr. Gilbard met his first patient with dry eyes and decided something had to be done. Whatbegan as a summer research project turned into one of the most productive dry eye research programs in the world. In 1978 he received project grant funding from the National Eye Institute, and to this day he remains the youngest scientist in history to have received such funding. His research program had one goal — to develop an eye drop for dry eye that really worked. His 18-year research program was successful.
Dr. Gilbard is now Founder, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Advanced Vision Research, Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Dry Eye and Ocular Surface Disease Clinic at the New England Eye Center in Boston. Dr. Gilbard's clinical practice specializes in dry eye and other problems of the eye surface. If you think you might benefit from a consultation with him ask your eye doctor for a referral. Appointments can be made by calling the New England Eye Center at 800-231-3316.
Review Dr. Gilbard's curriculum vitae
About the inventor Dr. GilbardIn the summer of 1976, as a medical student, Dr. Gilbard met his first patient with dry eyes and decided something had to be done. Whatbegan as a summer research project turned into one of the most productive dry eye research programs in the world. In 1978 he received project grant funding from the National Eye Institute, and to this day he remains the youngest scientist in history to have received such funding. His research program had one goal — to develop an eye drop for dry eye that really worked. His 18-year research program was successful.
Dr. Gilbard is now Founder, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Advanced Vision Research, Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Dry Eye and Ocular Surface Disease Clinic at the New England Eye Center in Boston. Dr. Gilbard's clinical practice specializes in dry eye and other problems of the eye surface. If you think you might benefit from a consultation with him ask your eye doctor for a referral. Appointments can be made by calling the New England Eye Center at 800-231-3316.
Review Dr. Gilbard's curriculum vitae
