Undergraduate Education: University of Central Florida. Optometry School: Nova Southeastern University. Certifications/Awards: Completion of Residency in Primary Care with emphasis in Cornea and Contact Lens, MiSight Certification, Paragon CRT Contact Lens Certification. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By delivering the highest level of care and service to my patients for their visual/ocular health. Hobbies/Interests: spending time with family and friends, traveling, kickboxing.

Undergraduate Education: Texas A&M University. Optometry School: University College of Optometry. Certifications/Awards: Posse Foundation Alumni, Alcon Laboratories Excellence Award 2023, Young OD Connect Scholarship, Texas A&M Buck Weirus Spirit Award 2017. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By connecting with patients, I strive to provide the best possible care that I can. I am actively reading about the newest advancements, participating in research, and attending conferences so I can better serve my patients and community. Hobbies/Interests: Watching sports, especially Houston sports!

Undergraduate Education: University of Illinois at Chicago. Optometry School: Chicago College of Optometry. Certifications/Awards: MiSight Certified. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By providing personalized comprehensive eye exams for adults and children of all ages, contact lens fitting, diabetic eye exams, and managing dry eye disease. Hobbies/Interests: Baking, watching football, hiking.

Undergraduate Education: University of South Florida. Optometry School: Midwestern University-Arizona. Certifications/Awards: Clinical Externship Honors, Clinical Excellence Award in Contact Lenses. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By focusing on my patients’ needs and concerns, I can provide a standard of care that is uniquely catered to them. With this positive impact, patients have more of an opportunity to enjoy the wonders of life. Hobbies/Interests: Rollercoaster enthusiast; Community volunteering.

Undergraduate Education: Ohio State University. Optometry School: Southern College of Optometry. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By getting to know my patients and enhancing their lives by ensuring that their vision and ocular health are of the highest quality. Hobbies/Interests: Reading, traveling, watching sports.

Undergraduate Education: Ferris State University. Optometry School: Nova Southeastern University. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By providing comprehensive eye exams for children and adults, diabetic eye exams, contact lens fitting/exams, and ocular disease management. Hobbies/Interests: Sports (Detroit Lions Fan), working out, traveling, and exploring new areas and restaurants in downtown Cincinnati.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in biology from State University of New York in Oneonta, NY, Dr. Kristina Skoljarev earned a Doctor of Optometry, from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Skoljarev provides a specialized course of treatment for each patient, combining expert application of medical and optical techniques to seek the best possible outcome for each patient. When not treating patients, Dr. Skoljarev loves spending free time with family and catching up with friends. She loves going back to Croatia, where most of her family still lives, to keep up with her cultural heritage. She is organized, confident, focused, and very empathetic to her patients to make sure they feel cared for both medically and mentally.

Dr. Stefanie Fernandez was born and raised in Westerly, RI before moving to North Carolina where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Elon University. After living in Durham, NC and working as a DNA lab technologist, Dr. Fernandez decided she wanted to help people in a more personal way. She then moved to South Florida to pursue her Doctorate in Optometry from Nova Southeastern University and graduated as a member of Beta Sigma Kappa International Optometric Honor Society. In her spare time, Dr. Fernandez enjoys exploring new places with her husband and spoiling their pet tortoise, Reggie.

Undergraduate Education: University of North Carolina Wilmington. Optometry School: Salus University - graduated with academic and clinical honors. What drives your passion for Optometry? I love helping people, and enjoy knowing that I can make a difference for my patients while doing what I love. In my spare time, I enjoy being with family, playing guitar, and paddle boarding with my dog and husband.

Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Optometry School: Southern College of Optometry. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? I have lived in the area for almost twenty years. I’ve enjoyed being a part of the community, from being a VBS volunteer at church to just running into patients at the grocery store. I can help patients live their best lives by being a good listener and taking care of all their visual and eye health needs. Hobbies/Interests: We love the mountains and being able to go hiking and kayaking. We enjoy watching my daughter run cross country and track.