Meet Our Leadership
From overnight clinicians to care coordination leaders to product engineers, our people are why partners trust Third Eye Health to show up when it matters most.
Dan Herbstman
As Chief Executive Officer, Dan keeps the organization at the forefront of the telehealth industry as it continues to expand in new markets. Prior to co-founding Third Eye health, he served as Senior Director, Diagnostics and Software, at Haemonetics, the leading medical technology company in blood management, bringing early-stage products from concept to commercialization and to standard of care in the in-vitro diagnostics, software and medical device areas.
Dan has also mentored early-stage companies, including Healthbox, as part of Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM) and the Chicago Lean StartupChallenge. He was an early investor for b.good, a New England-based restaurant chain. Dan started his career in health care consulting with Abt Associates and Perot Systems before moving into the medical technology area with EPIX Medical.
He has an undergraduate degree from Washington University (St. Louis, MO) in Biology.
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Lucas Baran
As Chief Technology Officer, Lucas drives product innovation and development initiatives for Third Eye Health. The original developer of the organization’s highly sought-after proprietary tablet-based telehealth technology, Lucas leads a team of highly skilled developers in the platform’s evolution through design and execution, ensuring a sustainable product market fit. He also upholds the responsibility of maintaining the secure transfer of PHI with SOC2 certification and custom EHR-integrations.
Prior to co-founding Third Eye Health, Lucas developed trading floor applications for Fidelity Investments and led a team of developers for Dynamic Clinical Systems, specializing in self-reported surveys using touch-enabled software that was acquired by Press Ganey.
Lucas holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Information Security.
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Laurie Dotas
Laurie serves as Third Eye Health’s Chief Operations Officer, overseeing all training, implementation, and support initiatives as well as credentialing, third party billing, physician practice operations, and payer enrollment. Her journey with Third Eye Health began on the client engagement side, where she managed training and account management as the Director of Customer Operations.
Before joining Third Eye Health, Laurie dedicated over 25 years building her career in long-term care, the majority of which she served as a licensed nursing home administrator, working for organizations including Signature Healthcare, Kindred Healthcare and Prestige Healthcare. She also was the Regional Vice President for MedOptions Behavioral Health, working directly with long-term care partners.
Chief Operations Officer
Zahra Shariff, MD
Dr. Shariff leads the nationwide team of Third Eye Health physicians delivering acute virtual care to patients in skilled nursing and long-term care environments. Her medical expertise includes extensive experience as ED Attending Physician at Michael E DeBakey VA Hospital in Houston, Texas and Hunter Holmes McGuire VA in Richmond, Virginia. She has a deep interest in international health, having traveled to Tajikistan to establish a clinic and train local providers on Diabetes Mellitus Type II (DMII) and hypertension treatment protocols.
Dr. Shariff received her medical degree at University College Cork in Ireland followed by a residency in internal medicine at St. Louis University Hospital, serving as Chief Resident her final year. Originally from Canada, Dr. Shariff received her undergraduate degree from McGill University.
Chief Medical Officer
Suzanne Carney, RN, CDONA,/LTC
As Chief Nursing Officer, Suzanne establishes and builds relationships between clinical leadership and Third Eye Health. Our clinical nursing expert, Suzanne’s best practice guidelines are imperative to driving quality initiatives and outcomes. Her journey at Third Eye Health began as Director of Care Coordination where she developed the care coordination platform as it exists today, later transitioning to Director of Clinical Operations where she managed the Care Coordination team, an essential arm of Third Eye Health.
Before joining Third Eye Health she served as Director of Nursing Services and Center Nurse Executive for over 10 years establishing deficiency-free surveys and 5-star CMS status as her standard of practice. With over 35 years of health care service, starting her career as an LPN then RN, she is now working toward a master’s degree in Nursing.
Chief Nursing Officer
Paivi Smith
As Chief Finance Officer, Paivi is responsible for the daily finance activities and treasury of Third Eye Health. Since joining Third Eye Health, her focus has been on improving the financial systems and processes, identifying additional income generation opportunities, positively impacting the organization’s financial forecasting and outcomes.
Paivi has held financial leadership roles for 20 years, most recently she was the Vice President of Accounting / Finance at Stratus Video, a mobile technology interpretation service for hospitals, where she helped navigate the organization through two acquisitions.
Paivi received her master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and is a Certified Public Accountant.