Vice President
Clinical Development
Clearside Biomedical
Georgia
Dr. Kissner was promoted to Vice President, Clinical Development in August 2016 after having served as our Senior Director of Development since August 2014. Dr. Kissner has 14 years of clinical development experience, 9 of which have been with entities addressing sight-threatening diseases in positions at ophthalmology companies such as Alcon Laboratories, Inc.,
Novartis company and Acucela, Inc. Dr. Kissner received her PhD and conducted her post-doctoral research at Emory University before spending five years at Vanderbilt University addressing infectious diseases while holding several positions of increasing responsibility in the Department of Pediatrics and developing a centralized clinical research office.