Scott Barnes

MD

Dr. Scott Barnes retired from the US Army in September 2017 at the rank of Colonel. For the last 20 years of his distinguished 30-year career, Dr. Barnes served as an ophthalmic surgeon and was selected as the Ophthalmology Consultant to the Surgeon General in 2016. He completed a Cornea Fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School. From 2004-2017, Dr. Barnes served as the Chief of Ophthalmologist and Refractive Surgery at the Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. During his tenure, Dr. Barnes implanted 3,000 ICLs and performed thousands of other ophthalmic procedures. He has authored and given more than 350 presentations, lectures and book chapters and led over 30 ophthalmology or refractive surgery research projects. Dr. Barnes became the first Chief Medical Officer for STAAR Surgical in October 2017.