Team | Perfect Lens

A focused, interdisciplinary team

Perfect Lens is driven by a small, highly specialized internal team with deep expertise spanning optical physics, femtosecond laser systems, software, and clinical research.

The team works hands-on across system development, validation, and evaluation, maintaining close integration between concept, implementation, and measured performance.

Interdisciplinary by design

Optics, laser engineering, software, and clinical considerations are developed in close collaboration.

Hands-on execution

Core contributors are directly involved in development, testing, and analysis to preserve technical continuity.

Lean and adaptive

A focused internal structure with flexible access to specialized expertise as needed.

Perfect Lens ecosystem

Lean, scalable, expert-driven

Perfect Lens integrates a focused internal team with specialized partners and clinical expertise to accelerate validation and translation.

Core Team

A focused leadership group spanning optics, software, engineering, and research.

Steven Smathers

Founder & CEO

Ruth Sahler

Co-Founder, President & CTO

Zachary Thomas

Director of Software Engineering

Sean Enright

Director of Research

Don Boyer

Director of Manufacturing Operations

Medical & Scientific Advisory Board

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David F. Chang, MD

University of California, San Francisco

Former President, ASCRS Cataract and refractive surgery

Y. Ralph Chu, MD

Chu Vision Institute

High-volume cataract and refractive surgery

Nicole Fram, MD

Advanced Vision Care

Complex cataract, Anterior segment reconstruction

Sean Ianchulev, MD

Ophthalmic Innovation and Technology

Device development, Clinical translation

Jason Jones, MD

Jones Eye Clinic

Advanced cataract extraction, New IOL technologies

Doug Koch, MD

Jamail Specialty Care Center, Alkek Eye Center

IOL complications, Society leadership

Susan MacDonald, MD

Lahey Clinic Medical Center

Comprehensive ophthalmology, Surgical education

Nick Mamalis, MD

John A. Moran Eye Center

Ophthalmic pathology, IOL evaluation

Terrence O'Brien, MD

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

Refractive surgery, Anterior segment

Randall Olson, MD

John A. Moran Eye Center

Department leadership, Cataract surgery

David J. Schanzlin, MD

Gordon Weiss Vision Institute

Keratorefractive surgery, Ultrashort pulse innovation

Pavel Stodulka, MD

Gemini Eye Clinics

Cataract innovation, Central Europe clinical leadership

Dan Tran, MD

Coastal Vision Medical Group, Inc.

Femtosecond laser surgery, Surgical advising

George Waring IV, MD

Magill Vision Center

Refractive surgery, Clinical research

In Memoriam

Perfect Lens honors pioneers whose contributions laid the foundation for modern ophthalmic laser technology.

Josef Bille, PhD

Wavefront diagnostics and ophthalmic laser technology pioneer.

Roger Steinert, MD

Academic leadership and femtosecond laser applications in ophthalmology.