The Contact Lens Institute is the U.S. association of soft contact lenses and contact lens care product manufacturers.

We lead initiatives that properly assess, enhance, promote, and balance contact lens and lens care industry welfare and growth, including the safe use of products in the marketplace.

Our Mission

To undertake activities that properly assess, enhance, promote and balance contact lens and lens care industry welfare and growth, including the safe use of products in the marketplace.

Members

Our members include:

Leadership

Peter Mathers

Contact Lens Institute

Founding Legal Counsel

Stan Rogaski

Contact Lens Institute

Executive Director

Member Representatives

A Board of Directors comprises commercial and clinical leadership from its member companies to provide the direction for the Institute.

Adriano Abreu

Senior Director of Contact Lenses

Carla Mack

Alcon

OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA, Global and US Head of Professional Education and Development

Dinesh Guglani

Bausch + Lomb

Vice President / General Manager, US Vision Care

Bill Reindel

OD, MS, Executive Director of Medical Affairs

Michele Andrews

OD, Chairperson, Vice President, Professional and Government Affairs – Americas

Melissa Kiewe

Vice President of Marketing

Caroline Waldeck

Director of Marketing U.S.

Charissa Lee

OD, MBA, FAAO, Head of Professional Affairs, North America

Committees

Regulatory & Scientific Affairs Committee

The principal charter for the Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Committee is to help assess and develop plans of action for opportunities and issues primarily related to FDA and management of standards that may impact the contact lens and lens care industry. 

The committee provides a forum for CLI members to assess topical regulatory issues, and develop alignment and tactics to address them.  Although primarily focused on FDA policies, regulations and guidance documents, the Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Committee supports projects outside of the FDA domain, especially when topics overlap with FDA initiatives.

Key areas include: periodic face-to-face meetings with FDA and Committee members to discuss industry issues such as peroxide solution labeling to help avoid misuse; recommending changes to FDA Contact Lens and Lens Care Guidance Documents; submitting and presenting Comments at FDA Panel meetings; developing an adverse event decision tree for MDR reporting; address UDI labeling requirements and their potential application to contact lenses and contact lens care products; and participation in ANSI and ISO standards activities by conducting research,  publishing test methods, and collaborating on standards development.

Statistical Task Force

The members of the CLI, together with other participating companies participate in a quarterly statistical program to track manufacturer shipment data of Contact Lens and Lens Care products which is managed by Vault Consulting.

The program’s objective is to provide participants with accurate and timely consolidated market data while maintaining the confidentiality of each participant’s individual data. Each participating company in the CLI Statistical Program has a representative on the CLI Global Statistical Task Force. The Task Force determines all the rules guiding the statistical program, such as what data will be collected, reporting instructions, definitions, disclosure guidelines, etc.

Ethics & Compliance Committee

This committee undertakes activities related to ethics and compliance matters affecting the U.S. Contact Lens and Lens Care Industry.

The Committee is focused on Sunshine Laws, Ethics Code Implementation and Anti-bribery provisions that impact the Contact Lens and Lens Care Industry.

The Committee has also reviewed AdvaMed and PhRMA ethics guidelines as they may apply to our industry and the ophthalmic community and, where necessary and appropriate, has proactively sought to clarify the guidelines and to educate the ophthalmic community with respect to the guidelines.

Communications Committee

Committee members work with the CLI Board to recommend and implement the organization’s communications strategy focused on the delivery of information related to the value of contact lenses, safe use, increasing the visibility of the Institute and sharing CLI-related activities.