Glaukos Corporation announced the appointment of Denice Torres and Dr. Leana Wen to its Board of Directors, effective March 1, 2021. With the addition of these two directors, Glaukos’ Board of Directors will be comprised of nine directors, eight of whom are independent. Ms. Torres is currently chief executive officer of The Ignited Company, a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm she founded in 2017. From 2005 to 2017, she served in various senior leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson (J&J). From 2015 to 2017, she was chief strategy and transformation officer for J&J’s global medical device business. Dr. Wen is an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University School of Public Health. She is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, writing on health policy and public health, and an on-air commentator for CNN as a medical analyst. From 2015 to 2018, she was the health commissioner for the city of Baltimore, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operating health department to combat the opioid epidemic and improve maternal and child health.
Glaukos Corporation is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company. It develops novel, dropless therapies and commercializing associated products for the treatment of glaucoma, corneal disorders and retinal disease. Its product candidates include Micro-Invasive Glaucoma Surgery products that involve the insertion of a micro-scale device designed to reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) by restoring the natural aqueous humor outflow pathways for patients suffering from glaucoma and procedural pharmaceuticals based on an intracameral drug delivery technology designed to reduce IOP by delivering therapeutic levels of glaucoma medication from inside the eye over an extended period of time. Its products include transdermal pharmaceuticals that are applied to the eyelid and designed to treat glaucoma, dry eye, presbyopia and other ocular surface diseases and disorders and micro-invasive, bio-erodible sustained release drug delivery implants to improve the vision of patients.