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CooperVision Team Expansion Underscores Leadership in Myopia Management and 1 Day Modality

Two key pillars of CooperVision’s industry leadership, its myopia management and 1 Day brand teams, have recently expanded following the hiring of Kamela Bearlin as Senior Global Brand Director, 1 Day Brands, and Jennifer Lambert as Senior Global Brand Director, Myopia Management, and the promotion of Elizabeth Lumb, BSc(Hons) MCOptom, FBCLA, to Director of Global Professional Affairs, Myopia Management.

“Myopia management and 1 Day represent our fastest-growing, highest-opportunity brands,” said Simon Seshadri, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing. “By investing in top talent, we’re moving forward at full speed to continuously grow our strong leadership and investment in these areas.”

Kamela Bearlin

As Senior Global Brand Director, 1 Day brands, Kamela Bearlin works with regional commercial teams to grow the CooperVision wearer base and support market-leading growth through the company’s rapidly accelerating 1 Day silicone hydrogel portfolio. Building on the successes of the MyDay® daily disposable and clariti® 1 day families, Bearlin will also support continuous innovation on a global level.

Jennifer Lambert

As Senior Global Brand Director, Myopia Management, Jennifer Lambert works with CooperVision’s global and regional teams to expand its Brilliant Futures™ Myopia Management Program worldwide. This includes launching the program in markets where the lens alone is already available to support the best possible outcomes for age-appropriate* children with myopia. She will also advance a product roadmap that supports future growth in the myopia management category.

Elizabeth Lumb, BSc (Hons) MCOptom, FBCLA

As Director of Global Professional Affairs, Myopia Management, Elizabeth Lumb works closely with CooperVision’s regional marketing and professional affairs teams to support the ongoing commercialization of the Brilliant Futures™ Myopia Management Program, including MiSight® 1 day and the recently acquired SightGlass Vision™ technology.

“We’re changing the game in the fight against the myopia epidemic with each new market that the Brilliant Futures™ program and MiSight® 1 day contact lenses enter,” said Gary Orsborn, OD, MS, FAAO, FBCLA, Vice President, Global Professional, Medical and Clinical Affairs, CooperVision. “Our myopia management team’s latest additions fuel this momentum in advancing care for children with myopia worldwide.”

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Timeless Elegance for the Modern Man

Salvatore Ferragamo unveils the new eyewear design for the modern man featured in the Spring/Summer 21 collection. Presented as part of the Timeless collection, the model SF2896 is characterized by a smart mix of contemporary elegance and vintage allure. The frame features a confident rectangular shape in thick acetate, set with thin metal plaques engraved with the iconic Ferragamo logo as a symbol of the continuous balance between heritage and modernism.

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Lucere Dermatology & Laser Clinic Joins FYidoctors

FYidoctors announced Lucere Dermatology & Laser Clinics as the latest esthetic medicine practice to join the growing company. The addition of Lucere’s two new Edmonton clinics brings the total aesthetic medicine clinics operating in Western Canada for FYidoctors to 11.

“We’re pleased to announce the merger with Lucere, and to partner with Dr. Taher and his experienced team,” said Dr. Alan Ulsifer, CEO and Chairman of FYidoctors. “Regarded as a leading medical aesthetics practice in Edmonton, we look forward to building on our shared approach to patient-led care.”

Founded by Dr. Zaki Taher and Issan Sassi, the husband-and-wife duo have led the full service medical and cosmetic dermatology clinics since 2014. Dr. Taher received both his Bachelor of Medical Sciences and Medical Doctorate from the University of Alberta and is recognized as one of the few fellowship-trained laser surgeons and cosmetic dermatologists in Canada. Issan, who leads operations and marketing for the clinics, holds a Bachelor of Science in Immunology and Infection from the University of Alberta, and an After Degree in Environmental Public Health from Concordia University College.

“In partnering with FYidoctors, we saw alignment not only with how we envisioned Lucere’s growth in the future, but with the shared mission and values of the company,” said Dr. Taher, Founder of Lucere.

An engaged and respected local business in the Edmonton community, Lucere was recently awarded the Top Choice Awards’ ‘Top Cosmetic Clinic’ and rated the ‘Top Dermatology Clinic’ by Best in Edmonton, and supports several local non-profits including Lois Hole Hospital for Women, Zebra Centre, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and many others.

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New Paper Establishes Context for Myopia Control Axial Length Targets

A new paper that has been accepted for publication in Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, the peer-reviewed journal of The College of Optometrists (UK), furthers understanding of myopia control efficacy in the context of normal childhood eye growth. Axial Length Targets for Myopia Control (Chamberlain P, et al.) is now available online via Open Access.

Since young eyes grow, even when not myopic, the paper compares axial elongation among children who remain emmetropic, children with untreated myopia progression, and children with myopia managed with CooperVision MiSight® 1 day myopia control lenses. The comparison uses data from the three-year MiSight® 1 day clinical study, the Orinda Longitudinal Study of Myopia (OLSM) and the Singapore Cohort Study of the Risk Factors for Myopia (SCORM).

The analysis revealed that the predicted three-year axial elongation for emmetropic children (0.24 mm) is similar to the mean three-year elongation in MiSight® 1 day-treated children with myopia (0.30 mm). In contrast, the axial elongation (0.63 mm) observed in the control group in the MiSight® 1 day clinical study was much higher, and similar to virtual cohorts based on the OLSM (0.70 mm) and SCORM (0.65 mm) models for myopia development.

This observation suggests that while abnormal myopic eye growth may be managed with MiSight® 1 day in age-appropriate children, normal, physiological eye growth may continue as the child ages. It supports the hypothesis that myopic axial elongation may be superimposed on underlying physiological axial elongation.

“Some eye growth as part of the aging process is normal—myopic axial elongation is not. Our work further validates that evidence-based interventions can be highly effective in slowing that myopic eye growth,” said Paul Chamberlain, BSc (Hons), MCOptom, the paper’s lead author and Director of Research Programs for CooperVision.

“In assessing treatment effectiveness, we caution our industry away from applying arbitrary correction factors to account for normal, physiological eye growth until this has been better understood. Efficacy percentages may seem higher presented in that light, but it complicates understanding and valid comparisons,” said co-author Mark Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD, FAAO.

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Safilo Builds on Its Partnership with Evonik to Introduce TROGAMID® myCX eCO in Lenses

Safilo is building on its 20-year partnership with specialty chemicals world leader Evonik to use their newest high-quality material TROGAMID® myCX eCO for premium sun lenses.

Safilo will debut sun lenses made of TROGAMID® myCX eCO in January 2022 with the BOSS Spring Summer collection. This high-performance polymer will be progressively rolled out across Safilo’s portfolio, especially in its Made in Italy brands.

BOSS 1365S

TROGAMID® myCX eCO is a sustainable high-performance crystal-clear polymer made from 40% biomass and 100% renewable energy, which results in a 50% lower carbon footprint. It offers a transparency of more than 90%, outstanding mechanical properties, resistance to stress cracking and breakage. Safilo will be the first eyewear player to introduce this material – specially optimized for the optics industry – in one of its licensed brands.

“Sustainability is an integral part of the Safilo’s business philosophy and firmly rooted in our company strategy: this is why partnerships with materials leaders like Evonik continue to be so important as we push the boundaries of sustainable materials and accelerate the industry,” declares Vladimiro Baldin, Chief Licensed Brand and Global Product Officer at Safilo Group.

“It was particularly important for us to offer to a premium manufacturer like Safilo a sustainable polyamide whose properties differ in nothing from those of the TROGAMID® myCX they already use,” says Viviane Papa, who is responsible for Evonik’s high-performance polyamides granules and compounds business. “We at Evonik also follow a strong sustainability business philosophy and are working in many areas to make our products sustainable.”

Click HERE for the full press release.

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