Surgeon Relationships: Navigating Preferences and Fostering Partnerships

Includes a Live Web Event on 01/16/2025 at 1:00 PM (EST)

Eye banks and corneal surgeons work together to restore sight to patients each day, and a strong relationship is key. During this session, Jameson Clover, Vice President of Surgical Services at VisionGift, and Caithlin Lopes, Sr. Director, Business Development at Eversight, discuss the eye bank-surgeon relationship, providing insights into navigating tissue preferences and discussing opportunities for providing surgeons with support and resources in addition to ocular tissue.

Attendees will learn:

Data about the effect of strict tissue preferences
Information to provide surgeons when tissue criteria is discussed
How to navigate the tissue criteria discussion
Opportunities to support surgeons outside of surgery

Learn how to develop a strong relationship with your surgeons that will benefit the surgeon and your organization; register today!

Caithlin Lopes

Director, Partner Development

Eversight

Caithlin Lopes joined Eversight in 2013 (then the Connecticut Eye Bank) and brings to the role more than 15 years of experience in the eye, organ and tissue field. Caite leads Eversight’s domestic partner relations efforts, guiding her team to forge relationships with surgeons that allow Eversight to continue to make vision a reality for patients across the country. Lopes also works collaboratively with organizations like the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Cornea Society as partners in education and training for surgeons, fellows and residents. Prior to Eversight, Lopes served in various roles at the New England Organ Bank.

Jameson Clover, CEBT

Senior Vice President of Surgical Services

VisionGift

Jameson has over 20 years of eye banking experience and currently leads the Processing and Distribution teams in both Portland, OR and Boston, MA. She has co-authored numerous publications related to eye banking and cornea transplantation and is a regular presenter for the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA). She has served on the EBAA Statistics committee and is the former Chair of the Exam Committee.