Rod Solar reveals practice building secrets at ESCRS 2013 Practice Development Weekend
We decided to get practical at the ESCRS Practice Development Weekend in Frankfurt by revealing the very best business development strategies and tactics we’ve learned after working to build healthcare businesses over a decade. Here is the slideshow that accompanied the 6 hour talk on Sunday:
The weekend was well attended by eye surgery clinics and hospitals specialising in refractive and cataract surgery from all over Europe. Other speakers invited to present were LiveseySolar clients: Arthur Cummings (CEO of Wellington Eye Clinic), Paul Ursell (Owner of Cataract-Doctor.com), and Eckhard Weingaertner (Managing Director of EuroEyes).
Other notable presenters included Professor John Marshall (Institute of Ophthalmology in association with Moorfield’s Hospital), Paul Rosen (President of ESCRS and Consultant at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust), and Professor Manfred Tetz, founder of the Berlin Eye Research Institute.
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Meet our Founders

Rod Solar
Founder & Fractional CMO
Rod co-founded LiveseySolar and acts as a Fractional CMO for our customers. He’s on a mission to help transform the lives of 10,000 people with vision correction surgery by 2024. To achieve that, he inspires his customers to make confident decisions that will help 50,000 people take the first step towards vision correction.
LiveseySolar completely transformed the way we were approaching this… We’ve gone from having just the dream of having a practice to having a practice up and running with people making inquiries and booking for procedures… It’s extremely pleasing. We feel lucky we connected with LiveseySolar.
— Dr Matthew Russell, MBChB, FRANZCO, specialist ophthalmic surgeon and founder of VSON and OKKO

Laura Livesey
Founder & CEO
Laura Livesey is the co-founder & CEO of LiveseySolar. She has developed powerful refractive surgery marketing systems that increase patient volumes and profits for doctors, clinics, and hospitals, since 1997.
Rod and Laura know as much about marketing surgery to patients as I know about performing it. They are an expert in the field of laser eye surgery marketing. They know this industry inside out. I believe that they could help many companies in a variety of areas including marketing materials, sales training and marketing support for doctors.
— Prof. Dan Reinstein, MD MA FRSC DABO, founder of the London Vision Clinic, UK