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WHO WE ARE
Perry Rosenthal, M.D., Founding President and Vice Chairman
Born
in Canada, Dr. Perry Rosenthal received his undergraduate and medical
degrees from McGill University. During his postgraduate training in ophthalmology
at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School,
Dr. Rosenthal founded its first contact lens clinic. This experience introduced
him to the unique but unmet potential of rigid contact lenses to restore
the sight of people who had become blind from corneal diseases. In his
search for ways to overcome the obstacles to their use, Dr. Rosenthal
led the breakthrough development of a new generation of oxygen-porous
plastics known as The Boston Lens® that overcame the leading cause
of contact lens wearing failure, corneal asphyxiation. The acquisition
of his company by Bausch & Lomb in 1983 provided the means by which
Dr. Rosenthal was able to pursue the development of his vision-restoring
lenses and the founding of the nonprofit Boston Foundation for Sight.
Dr. Rosenthal is assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at Harvard
Medical School and a recognized authority in the therapeutic and vision-rehabilitative
use of contact lenses. He is a frequent guest lecturer at national and
international professional meetings and the author of many scientific
papers on this subject.
Gary F. Gut, President and CEO
Gary Gut received his MBA from Harvard Business School and went on to become a strategic management consultant at Bain & Company. A successful entrepreneur, Gary co-founded a national chain of ophthalmic ambulatory surgery centers and a medical management business. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and the Conservatory Lab Charter School and a Trustee of Building Impact and The Advent School. Gary was chosen by BFS after an extensive national search to oversee the Foundation’s strategic planning and business development.
Mark Cohen, Executive Director
Mark Cohen has directed the Foundation’s development and expansion since he arrived in 2003, when the Foundation had a staff of only 4. At this time, he is directing most of his energy recruiting new BOS-P Partner Clinics nationally and internationally while continuing to seek new sources of funding for our expansion and research.
Deborah S. Jacobs, M.D., Medical Director
Dr. Deborah Jacobs, an ophthalmologist who specializes in cornea and
external eye disease and cataract, has joined the Foundation as Medical
Director.
Dr. Jacobs earned her undergraduate A.B. degree from Harvard and Radcliffe
Colleges in 1981, majoring in biology and graduating summa cum laude.
Winning a Rhodes scholarship, she earned her Masters of Science degree
in physiological sciences from Oxford University in England and then returned
to complete her medical degree at the Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Jacobs’ three-year residency in Ophthalmology was spent at the
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary in Boston where she also completed
a fellowship in cornea and external disease, supported by a Heed Ophthalmic
Foundation Fellowship. Since 1992 she has been Director of the Cornea
Service at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and has been
on staff at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. She is currently an
assistant professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.
Lynette Johns, O.D., Clinical Associate
Dr. Johns received her doctorate in optometry and completed
a residency in cornea and contact lenses at the New England College of
Optometry. She won the Dr. Sheldon Weschler contact lens residency award
in 2005.
She joined the clinical staff in 2005
Karen G. Carrasquillo, O.D., Ph.D.
Karen received her Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry in 2001 from the University of Puerto Rico. The following year she completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ophthalmology at the Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. She continued her education at the New England College of Optometry where she received her Doctor of Optometry, followed by a Residency specializing in Cornea and Contact Lens at the New England College of Optometry. During her Residency, Karen rotated through the Boston Foundation for Sight where we had the pleasure to really get to know her.
Karen is the recipient of many Academic Awards and has authored numerous
publications in her field of specialization. She is a welcome addition
to the BFS family and we are very fortunate to have her on our team.
Alan Kwok, O.D., F.A.A.O.
Dr. Alan Kwok received his Doctor of Optometry from the University of Waterloo and went into private practice for several years. In 1999, Dr. Kwok attended the New England College of Optometry’s primary care residency program focusing on ocular disease. In 2000, Dr. Kwok was named Assistant Professor of Optometry at the New England College of Optometry and was later named Chief of Service for the cornea and contact lens clinic where he remained until joining the Boston Foundation for Sight in 2007.
Sara Yost, Business Manager
Sara received her BS from the University of New Hampshire in Health
Management and Policy in 2002, and joined the Foundation staff shortly
thereafter. She works with all patients regarding the financial aspects
of their care. She also oversees all business aspects of the Foundation,
including financial reporting and insurance reimbursement.
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