Undergraduate Education: Florida International 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 adults and children, diabetic eye exams, contact lens fitting, and ocular disease management. Hobbies/Interests: Spending time with family, friends, and her dog, Ollie.

Undergraduate Education: State University of New York at Geneseo. Optometry School: Nova Southeastern University. Professional Achievements/Associations: Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. Clinical Certifications & Specialties: primary care, ocular disease, refractive surgery. Hobbies/Interests: I love being a father and spending time with my family. Most weekends you can find us outside enjoying nature. When I have free time, I enjoy playing the bass guitar.

Undergraduate Education: University of Virginia. Optometry School: New England College of Optometry. How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By providing comprehensive eye exams for adults and children; specialty contact lens fittings; acute and chronic care of ocular diseases, including glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic exams, and ocular emergencies. Hobbies/Interests: Walking; reading; and spending time with my husband and three daughters.

Undergraduate Education: American International College (Springfield, MA). Optometry School: Pennsylvania College of Optometry (now Salus University). Clinical Certifications & Specialties: Multifocal Contact Lenses, Scleral Contact Lenses. What drives your passion for optometry? I was seven years old when I first wore eyeglasses. Ever since I was eight, my parents said that I kept telling them that I would be an optometrist. I have always wanted to help people, and I believe that this is the way that I can best do so. How are you helping patients live their best lives? I help patients live their best lives by enhancing their quality-of-life through optimized vision. What does providing a transformational eyecare experience mean to you? It is the essence, the core, of my motivation to become an optometrist. In this way, I feel that I can contribute to the world one person at a time so that each may feel more empowered to contribute to the world in their own way. How are you impacting your local community? By enhancing people's quality of life, so that they can more effectively contribute their talents and energies to others. Hobbies/Interests: Reading.

Undergraduate Education: University of Maryland, College Park. Optometry School: New England College of Optometry. Achievements: Maryland Optometric Association, American Optometric Association, New England College of Optometry Clinic Award 2021 for “Superior Knowledge and Competence in Patient Care.” How are you impacting your local community or helping your patients live their best lives? By connecting to patients in my hometown on a personal level while assisting them in seeing the best that they can! Providing comprehensive exams for adults and children for glasses, contacts, dry eye management and diabetic eye exams. Hobbies/Interests: Visiting Walt Disney World, traveling, attending concerts.

Dr. Thomas Vaxmonsky completed his undergraduate education at the University of Pittsburgh in 1984 with a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience. He continued his education at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (1988) and advanced education through residency in Pediatrics and Infant vision at SUNY Optometry (1989). While at PCO he attained High Honors with rotations in Pediatrics, Primary Care and Medical Optometry. He moved to Maryland to practice optometry in the College Park area with his practice specializing in contact lenses and medical eye care then later joined MyEyeDr in 2021. He maintains the highest level of Therapeutic Optometric licensing in Maryland. Dr. Vaxmonsky has co-authored in Archives of Ophthalmology and Review of Optometry and spent time volunteering with One Sight providing eye care to underprivileged and special needs children and adults in Prince George's County. Dr. Vaxmonsky lives with his wife Jen and daughter Christianne in Howard County while daughter Payton and son Will are away in college. He enjoys many outdoor activities from ultimate frisbee, running, fishing, bow hunting and mountain biking.

Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science in Biology at The Pennsylvania State University. Optometry School: Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University. Certifications/Awards: Graduated Summa Cum Laude from PCO; Clinic Excellence in Primary Care at The Eye Institute and Affiliated Patient Care Sites. Hobbies/Interests: Playing music with family and friends, keeping active outdoors, snowboarding, hunting, and fishing.

Undergraduate Education: Grand Rapids Community College & Michigan State University. Optometry School: Michigan College of Optometry. Professional Achievements/Associations: WMOA, MOA, AOA. How are you helping patients live their best lives? I like making people aware of different ways of correcting their vision, ways they may have never known existed. Hobbies/Interests: Spending time with my family and traveling to new places.

Undergraduate Education: Ferris State University, Bachelor of Science in Biology, Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry. Optometry School: Michigan College of Optometry. Hobbies/Interests: Sports, Traveling