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STAAR Surgical Announces Strategic Alliance Agreement with California Center for Refractive Surgery (CCRS)
CCRS Plans to Open First Lens-Based Clinic in Los Angeles County Offering Visian ICL as the Clinic’s Primary Refractive Solution CCRS Provides Eye Care and
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCCRS Plans to Open First Lens-Based Clinic in Los Angeles County Offering Visian ICL as the Clinic’s Primary Refractive Solution\n\n\nCCRS Provides Eye Care and Vision Correction Solutions\n\n LAKE FOREST, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nSTAAR Surgical Company (NASDAQ: STAA), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable lenses and companion delivery systems for the eye, today announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with the California Center for Refractive Surgery (CCRS), a Los Angeles based eye care group with locations in Hancock Park and Sherman Oaks.\n\n\n“Our new multi-clinic alliance with CCRS and its founder Dr. Paul Lee is representative of the new strategic partnership model we are now offering to highly-qualified ophthalmic partners in the U.S., the second largest market for refractive vision correction in the world,” said Caren Mason, President and CEO of STAAR Surgical. “Dr. Lee is a leading ophthalmic surgeon who attended our inaugural U.S. Surgeons Council Summit earlier this year, has subsequently increased his commitment to use our Visian ICL family of lenses for vision correction in his clinics and now has plans to open one of the first lens-based only clinics in the United States in the near future. We look forward to supporting Dr. Lee’s practice development through digital marketing, patient education tools and certified surgeon and staff training relating to the Visian ICL as we partner to address the growing patient need for vision correction in the U.S.”\n\n\nDr. Lee has performed thousands of various refractive procedures over an illustrious career spanning more than 20 years. His distinctions include being a leading Visian ICL (Implantable Collamer Lens) surgeon, the first U.S. surgeon to be certified in SMILE and receiving the Alcon Centurion Surgeon Award.\n\n\n“My goal as a surgeon has always been to give patients freedom from their glasses for a lifetime and the Visian ICL family of implantable Collamer lenses can play a key role in doing just that,” said Dr. Paul Lee, Founder and Medical Director of CCRS. “The ICL is a quick additive procedure that preserves future options by leaving the eye in its most natural state. This has far-reaching implications for patients in terms of visual outcome and satisfaction, both short term and long term. There is growing awareness and acce...