TLC Vision Leadership

Jim Tiffany is a President at Midwest Special Services Inc, President/COO at TLC Vision, and President and Chief Executive Officer at Sightpath Medical and is based in Bloomington, Minnesota. He has worked as VP Commercial Operations at British Library/The, VP:Sales & Marketing at LASER VISION CENTERS INC., and General Manager at Midwest Special Services Inc. James studied at Olin Business School at Washington University between 1991 and 1993, Washington University in St LO, and Arizona State University.

Senior executive with in-depth knowledge of both the operational and financial dimensions of both public and privately-held business

Specialties: Peter has extensive experience in financial restructuring, cash flow modeling, budgeting and forecasting. He has helped companies grow through acquisition and harvest share-holder value with strategic divestitures.

Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, is the founder and an Attending Surgeon at Minnesota Eye Consultants and an Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, Department of Ophthalmology. He is a board-certified Ophthalmologist and an internationally recognized leader in corneal, cataract, refractive and laser surgery. Dr. Lindstrom graduated magna cum laude from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and subsequently completed his MD degree in 1972. He conducted research, residency and fellowship training in cornea at the University of Minnesota and its affiliated hospitals. His anterior segment surgery fellowship training was extended at Mary Shiels Hospital. Dr. Lindstrom was a Heed Fellow in Glaucoma at the University Hospital in Salt Lake City. He subsequently returned to the University of Minnesota where he spent ten years on the faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology and became a Professor and the Harold G. Scheie Research Chair. He entered private practice in 1989, and has led the growth and expansion of Minnesota Eye Consultants, serving as a Managing Partner for 15 years. Dr. Lindstrom is the Chairman of the Vision Foundation, the Associate Director of the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank at the University of Minnesota, and the Medical Director of Sightpath Medical and of Refractec, Inc. He is also the Chief Medical Editor of the national and international editions of Ocular Surgery News, which reaches 82,000 Ophthalmologists worldwide. He is the Global Education Liaison of the International Society of Refractive Surgery of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Lindstrom serves on the executive committee and is the Chair of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Foundation. He serves on the board of directors of AcuFocus, Inc., TLC Vision Corporation, Occulogix, Inc., Refractec, and the Minnesota Medical Foundation. Dr. Lindstrom holds over 35 patents in ophthalmology and has developed several solutions, intraocular lenses and instruments that are used in clinical practices worldwide. Dr. Lindstrom is a frequent international lecturer on cornea, cataract and refractive surgery. He has presented over 40 named lectures and keynote speeches before professional societies in the United States and around the world, including the Blumenthal Memorial lecture in Jerusalem, Israel, the Benedetto Strampelli Medal Lecture in Rome, Italy, and the Albrecht von Graefe-Vorlesung Innovator’s Lecture in Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Lindstrom serves on the editorial boards for several journals, including the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the Journal of Refractive Surgery. He is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of the U.S. Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology. He has coedited seven books and published over 350 peer-reviewed journal articles and 60 book chapters. Dr. Lindstrom’s list of professional affiliations is extensive. He has received numerous awards for distinguished service from national and international ophthalmology associations, including the Lans Award, Barraquer Award, two Lifetime Achievement Awards from the International Society of Refractive Surgery of which he was the first recipient in October 1995, the Binkhorst Lecture Award from ASCRS, and the Bausch & Lomb Lifetime Achievement Award.