Undergraduate Education: Salisbury University. Optometry School: Pennsylvania School of Optometry. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By providing comprehensive eye exams, diabetic eye exams, contact lens fitting, binocular visual dysfunctions, and ocular disease management. Hobbies/Interests: Outdoor activities (hiking, skiing, swimming) and especially anything I can do with my dogs!

Undergraduate Education: Attended Michigan State University. Optometry School: New England College of Optometry Specializing in Ortho Keratology to slow the progression of myopia in Children and Scleral Contact lenses for Keratoconus, high Astigmatism and Presbyopia. And by providing comprehensive care to all ages and ensuring the best possible visual outcome for each patient. Hobbies/Interests: Golf, hiking, and travel.

Optometry School: Northeastern State University

Optometry School: Northeastern State University

Dr. Denise Roddy graduated with honors from Northeastern State University College of Optometry in 1988. She was awarded the Bausch & Lomb Award for Excellence in Academic Achievement in Contact Lenses. She was active in many student government roles and was named one of the top ten outstanding seniors for NSU. She has served as NSU Alumni Board President and since 2010 has been on the NSU Foundation Board of Directors, serving as President in 2016-2018. Dr. Roddy was named Oklahoma OD of the year in 2012 by the OAOP for outstanding service to the profession and her patients. She has served her profession on the state level and on a federal committee of AOA. Dr. Roddy's passion in the office is restoring hope to people who have lost vision due to disease or injury with medically necessary contact lenses. She is recognized by her peers and ophthalmologists in the Tulsa area as a leading provider for contacts for keratonconus, corneal transplants, and eye injuries.

Undergraduate Education: Miami-Dade College with honors and a degree in Vision Care Technology. Optometry School: Nova Southeastern University.

Undergraduate Education: Virginia Commonwealth University, BS – Biology. Optometry School: Salus University, formerly Pennsylvania College of Optometry. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? I am a 3rd generation Optometrist with 20+ years of practice in Northern Virginia. My father and Great Uncle were career Optometrists. I support our community by providing comprehensive eye exams for adults and children, diabetic eye exams, contact lens fitting, and ocular disease management. While supporting our community’s eye health, I stay active and busy raising three wonderful children with my husband. Hobbies/Interests: Board Games, Traveling and Spending time with my family and entertaining with friends.

Undergraduate Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Optometry School: Nova Southeastern University. What drives your passion for optometry? Helping patients get what they visually need. How are you helping patients live their best lives? I am helping our kids function to their potential with their busy electronic educational demands, which helps families understand the various visual needs. What does providing a transformational eyecare experience mean to you? Not only are the basic needs of seeing adequately important but understanding how vision and its devices can affect some peoples' overall development, or a simple change in a pair of glasses can make you feel better, can give a unique eyecare experience. How are you impacting your local community? I enjoy teaching my patients overall basic eye health and anatomy and how it pertains to their unique situation, which can promote better hygiene overall. Hobbies/Interests: Hobbies are volunteering, spending time with family and friends, watching sports, and whatever interests my children are into at the time, which is currently Taekwondo, and spending time at the beach.