Reay H. Brown

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Sight Sciences, Inc. In his role as CMO, Dr. Brown works closely with the Company's research and development team on making improvements to existing products and on new product innovation, as well as with Sight Sciences' clinical and commercial teams.

Reay H. Brown, M.D. is a board certified ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma and cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation.

He has been in practice in Atlanta since 1988. Dr. Brown has published more than 90 peer reviewed articles on glaucoma and cataract surgery. He has served as chairman of the ASCRS Glaucoma Committee and is currently the Glaucoma Editor of EyeWorld magazine. He recently received the Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Brown is one of only a few ophthalmologists in Georgia to receive this prestigious award. He received the 2013 Distinguished Alumnus Award from John Hopkins University (Wilmer Eye Institute) and the 2014 Innovator Award form the American Glaucoma Society. He has given many named lectures all over the world including the Obstbaum Lecture at the 2011 ASCRS Glaucoma Day. He was selected to give the Charles D. Kelman Innovator Lecture in 2017. This international award honors Dr. Kelman, the inventor of phacoemulsification, a huge step forward in successful cataract surgery outcomes. This award has only been given to 33 innovators in eye surgery since its inception in 1985.

Dr. Brown and his wife, Dr. Mary G. Lynch, a Professor at Emory, have been awarded 25 patents for new devices and instruments to improve glaucoma and cataract surgery. Their patents on trabecular bypass are the fundamental patents for several innovative devices implanted into the outflow channel of the eye. Dr. Brown has been selected by his peers to be listed each year in Best Doctors in America and by a separate peer survey in Atlanta Magazine as one of the best ophthalmologist in Atlanta.

Dr. Brown earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College Cum laude and completed medical school at the University of Michigan. He trained in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He then completed a glaucoma fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and returned to Johns Hopkins as Chief Resident.

Dr. Brown was selected as the first Pamela Firman Professor of Ophthalmology at the Emory Eye Center. Mrs. Firman made the donation for the professorship in gratitude for Dr. Brown’s care of her eyes. He served as the Director of the Glaucoma Service at Emory for eleven years prior to entering private practice with Atlanta Ophthalmology Associates in 1999.

Drs. Brown and Lynch have two daughters, Veronica and Annie. Rounding out their household is, Lily, a loving English Mastiff. Dr. Brown is an avid runner, enjoys playing tennis and traveling with his family.