PHYSICIAN CEO 2020 Participant Directory

Shaun Brierly, MD founded Copper Eye Surgery, Corp. in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area to provide his patients with a cataract surgery

experience unfettered by third party restrictions. Having performed many thousands of cataract surgeries over the last two decades, Dr.

Brierly understands that people come from diverse backgrounds, with unique lifestyles and desires that shape their vision goals and surgical

expectations. He empathizes with the frustration his patients express when private and government health care delivery systems fail to meet

expectations or erect barriers to care. Realizing that physician care options are limited by third party payer rules, Dr. Brierly decided to opt

out of all insurance contracts, including Medicare, in order to provide a highly customized experience for the private pay patient. This lack of

insurance payer restriction enables him to perform "dropless" bilateral same day surgery for patients suffering from cataracts who have

difficulty interrupting work and recreation schedules for sequential surgeries separated by weeks or months. Additionally, Dr. Brierly's

practice model allows for the extra time required to examine and communicate with neurologically atypical patients, as well as those suffering

from cognitive or communicative disorders such as aphasia and dementia. He enjoys performing complex cataract surgery, whether the

complexity arises from eye disease or from overall patient uniqueness.

Initially planning a research career in marine biology, Dr. Brierly fortunately switched gears and enrolled in University of California, Davis

Medical School after graduating summa cum laude from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Receiving his M.D. degree

in 1999, he then completed an Internal Medicine internship at the Providence St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, Oregon before returning to

the very busy University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA for Ophthalmology Residency, where he was Chief Resident.

Dr. Brierly's publication record has been impactful in his field, with one of his papers as primary author receiving triple digit citations to date,

and a book chapter in a history of corneal transplantation recently republished in a second edition. Named "Top Doctor - Ophthalmology"

by Sonoma Magazine in 2019, Dr. Brierly served as Chief of Ophthalmology at Santa Rosa Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, responsible

for a department of 57 full time staff, including Retina, Cornea, Glaucoma, Pediatric/Strabismus, and Comprehensive Eye Surgeons, as well

as 13 Optometrists. He was the Northern California regional Ophthalmology/Optometry liaison coordinating eye care for patients in Skilled

Nursing Facilities, and was a voting member of the Medical Executive Committee from 2017-2019. Practicing for over 16 years at the

Sonoma County wine country branch of a very large San Francisco Bay Area physician group, Dr. Brierly honed his skills to the point that he

enjoys challenging and difficult cataract referrals from fellow surgeons. This joy of challenge, coupled with a desire to serve, led Dr. Brierly to

direct commission in 2013 as an officer in the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps. He has deployed to Iraq and served as the

Ophthalmologist responsible for our coalition forces in five Middle East countries. As his leadership and administrative responsibilities grew,

Dr. Brierly increasingly appreciated a national disconnect between patient desires and the insurance determined surgical care ultimately

available to them. To Dr. Brierly, this disconnect represented an opportunity that led him to retire early from The Permanente Medical

Group and form Copper Eye Surgery, Corp. in order to offer patients an unprecedented level of control over their own cataract removals.

Born in Iowa, Dr. Brierly spent his early primary school years around Sioux Falls, South Dakota before his family relocated to Northern

California in 1978. From age 10, when child labor was both legal and expected, he had a paper route until he could get a work permit at age

13. Working at a local family owned grocery store, he was able to buy his first car at 16. Yes, it had an 8 track player. From then on, Dr.

Brierly has loved exploring the open road. Whether surfing up and down the Pacific Coast Highway as a teenager, or hitting Tombstone,

Carlsbad Caverns and Death Valley in July heat for a family road trip, he loves experiencing the beauty this world has to offer. More recently,

he has started dirt bike trail riding with his children. In 2008, Dr. Brierly started modifying and competitively overclocking computers under

liquid nitrogen. In 2011, his two-man team placed 2nd in North America, qualifying them to represent the USA in the Masters of

Overclocking Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. At one point in 2011, Dr. Brierly was the 3rd ranked amateur Extreme Overclocker in the world.

Married for 23 years to his wonderful wife, Mary, Dr. Brierly has a daughter and son attending college in Indiana and Iowa, another teenage

son with a great sense of humor, a Labrador retriever, and two cats. He and his family are thrilled to be in Arizona providing premium

personalized cataract surgery to locals and snowbirds from all over North America.