Family eye care by a family...

Irene Gendelman, O.D. and Smit Patel, O.D.

Dr. Gendelman and Dr. Patel graduated with a Doctorate of Optometry from the distinguished Southern California College of Optometry. Both doctors earned a bachelors degree from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Gendelman's past clinical experience includes practicing at the Eyecare Associates of Utah, Sharp Reese Stealy Healthcare System, and Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital in Phoenix. She also played a role as an Investigator on vision related research funded by the National Institute of Health in Boston. She holds awards and scholarships for her work in ocular disease and low vision, an area of optometry that serves the visually impaired.

Dr. Patel's past clinical experience includes residency training in Primary Eye Care and Low Vision through the San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System as well as clinical experience at the Center for the Partially Sighted in Santa Monica, Veterans Affairs Clinic in Bakersfield, and Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital in Arizona.

Dr. Gendelman and Dr. Patel are firm believers in community involvement and volunteering. Dr. Gendelman has participated in mission trips to El Salvador and along with Dr. Patel they have provided eye care to underserved populations deep into the Baja peninsula. Here in San Diego they have volunteered providing vision screenings at the Monarch School. They currently work with the Lions Club by offering eye examinations and glasses to children and adults who can not otherwise afford it.

Introducing our associate… ELAINE limpiado, O.D.

Dr. Limpiado attended the University of California, San Diego, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in General Biology, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. She received her Doctor of Optometry degree at the UIW Rosenberg School of Optometry in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Limpiado practices full scope optometry and is licensed in the treatment and management of ocular disease with therapeutic pharmaceutical agents. Her externship training included clinical rotations at a veterans affairs medical center and an eye surgery center. She has had in-depth training in the treatment and management of dry eye disease, ocular infections & inflammations, and ocular pathology including, but not limited to glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy. Dr. Limpiado provides comprehensive eye care to her patients as well as specialty contact lens fits including multifocal, scleral and corneal refractive therapy. She also co-manages in refractive surgery pre/post operative care. In her spare time, Dr. Limpiado likes to go to the beach, camp, and travel.

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