STAAR Surgical Patient Awareness Campaign Launched In New York - Seite 2

Certified EVO surgeons have been active on social media, including LinkedIn, sharing patient journeys to visual freedom with EVO. STAAR will introduce additional EVO patient ambassadors in the coming months, including a young NBA player and a Gen-Z actress, model and fashion icon. Other EVO patient ambassadors are also being introduced in key metropolitan areas. Already, EVO patients, model India Gants, winner of America’s Next Top Model and TV chef Jordan Andino have started sharing their positive EVO experience on social media accounts including Instagram and TikTok. Their enthusiastic sharing of the EVO experience adds more exciting and fun examples of the life enhancing visual freedom STAAR and its surgeon partners are excited to deliver to patients around the globe.

For more information about EVO Visian Implantable Collamer Lenses, visit EVOICL.com.

About STAAR Surgical

STAAR, which has been dedicated solely to ophthalmic surgery for over 40 years, designs, develops, manufactures and markets implantable lenses for the eye with companion delivery systems. These lenses are intended to provide visual freedom for patients, lessening or eliminating the reliance on glasses or contact lenses. All of these lenses are foldable, which permits the surgeon to insert them through a small incision. STAAR’s lens used in refractive surgery is called an Implantable Collamer Lens or “ICL,” which includes the EVO Visian ICL product line. More than 2,000,000 Visian ICLs have been sold to date and STAAR markets these lenses in over 75 countries. To learn more about the ICL go to: EVOICL.com. Headquartered in Lake Forest, CA, the company operates manufacturing and packaging facilities in Aliso Viejo, CA, Monrovia, CA and Nidau, Switzerland. For more information, please visit the Company’s website at www.staar.com.

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