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Meet the Eye Care Center Team

The Eye Care Team at the Western University Eye Care Center brings you expertise in such areas as vision therapy, ocular health assessment and the integrated care of diabetic patients. Their great compassion for the good vision of all is perhaps best exemplified by the participation of a team member who travels abroad as part of the Volunteer Optometric Service Organization to provide eye care in developing countries.

 

Paul Dobies, OD, FAAO


Robin J. Drescher, OD, MS, FAAO


Tiffenie Harris, OD, FAAO


Robert Lee, OD, FAAO 


Raymond Maeda, OD, FAAO-Chief of Staff 


Stuart Mann, OD, MA, FCOVD-Chief of Pediatric Services 


Bennett McAllister, OD, FAAO-Chief of Primary Care 


Kierstyn Napier-Dovorany, OD, FAAO


Lance McNaughton, OD, PhD-Chief of Contact Lens Services


Kristy Remick-Waltman, OD, FCOVD


Valerie Quan Wren, OD, FAAO


Jasmine Yumori, OD

 

Paul Dobies, OD

Paul Dobies, OD, FAAO - Assistant Professor

Dr. Dobies joins WesternU from Southern California and brings over 30 years of experience in primary medical vision care and clinical education. Dr. Dobies has a deep passion for building bridges of communication between providers and patients. He has cared for over 100,000 patients in group eye practices and multidisciplinary healthcare networks. Dr. Dobies enthusiastically shows in practice, lecture, and lab, “there is always more to vision than meets the eye."

 

 


Robin Drescher,OD

Robin J. Drescher, OD, MS, FAAO – Director of Clinical Education - Associate Professor

Dr. Drescher joins WesternU from Southern College of Optometry where he was on the faculty for nine years as a lecturer, lab instructor and clinical preceptor. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Drescher spent 21 years as an optometrist in the US Army serving at various Army posts in the US, Japan and Germany. He is a graduate of Southern California College of Optometry and completed a two year Masters of Science degree at Pacific University College of Optometry. His professional areas of interest are in ophthalmic optics and occupational vision. He is a member of the American Optometric Association, the California Optometric Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. He currently serves as a chief consultant for the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education.

 


 

Tiffenie Harris,OD

Tiffenie Harris, OD, FAAO - Associate Professor

Dr. Tiffenie Harris attended Indiana University; in 1989, she received her degree in Chemistry and graduated from Indiana University School of Optometry in 1993. After graduation, she moved to Southeastern Michigan and practiced primary care for over 10 years. Her clinical experience includes working in a variety of urban practice settings including a multi-discipline medical center. The demographics of this community provided a wide diversity of challenging cases and a large amount of pathology to diagnose, treat, and manage. She has cared for patients of all ages, the majority have been in the young adult to mature adult (>50) populations including those with physical and mental disabilities.

 


 

Robert Lee,OD

Robert Lee, OD - Associate Professor

Dr. Lee joins WesternU from Southern California College of Optometry where he was Chief of Optical Services and Coordinator of the Ophthalmic Optics curriculum. He also served as lab instructor for clinical methods courses as well as clinical faculty in Primary Care and Low Vision. Prior to his tenure as an optometric educator, Dr. Lee was in private practice. Before receiving his Doctor of Optometry degree he worked as a dispensing optician and vision therapist. His clinical practice background has served him well in education as he brings private practice experience and perspective to the classroom and clinical settings.

 


Raymond Maeda,OD

Raymond Maeda, OD, FAAO - Chief of Staff

Dr. Maeda joins WesternU from the Indian Health Service at Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital in Sacaton, Arizona. Prior to that, Dr. Maeda was on faculty at the Southern California College of Optometry. His clinical interests are in primary eye care and ocular disease, particularly caring for the patient with ocular complications from diabetes. He has provided eye care for patients in a variety of settings: private practice, teaching hospital, clinical teaching facility, and inter-professional clinic. He strongly feels that his patients need to be well-informed so that they can be a partner in the treatment and care for their eyes.

 


 

Stuart Mann,OD

Stuart Mann, OD, MA, FCOVD - Chief of Pediatric Services, Assistant Professor

Dr. Mann joins us from San Mateo, California where he was in a group practice specializing in Behavioral and Developmental Vision Care with two primary care optometrists an anterior segment and glaucoma specialist. He has served on the Board of Directors for the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and the Board of Trustees of the California Optometric Association. He is past president of the Bay Area Optometric Association. He graduated from Pacific University College of Optometry and completed his Masters of Arts in Reading from Notre Dame de Namur University. Dr. Mann's special interest is in children's vision, vision and reading, and optometric vision therapy.

 


 

Bennett McAllister,OD

Bennett McAllister, OD, FAAO, Diplomate, Low Vision - Chief, Primary Care, Assistant Professor

Dr. Bennett McAllister graduated with Honors from California State University, San Bernardino with a degree in Social Science before attending graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. There, in 1979, he received his B.S. degree in Physiological Optics and, in 1981, his doctorate in Optometry. His clinical background runs from general private practice and contact lenses to low vision care and surgical pre and post-op for cataracts and LASER surgery. While teaching senior interns one day a week at a specialty partially sighted clinic during the 1980s, he supervised the first program in the Los Angeles area for treating vision loss from AIDS. Later, he helped establish a pediatric low vision clinic for multiple handicapped children with vision loss. Through the diversity of vision conditions, pathologies and patient ages, he maintains that he does not treat vision or eyes, but people.

 


 

Kierstyn Napier,OD

Kierstyn Napier-Dovorany, OD, FAAO, Assistant Professor

Dr. Napier graduated from Indiana University in 2001 with a degree in Nutrition Science and from the New England College of Optometry in Boston in 2005. She then completed a residency at a veterans hospital in Vermont. She has worked at 2 veterans’ hospitals as well as other practices before coming to Western University in 2009. Here at Western, she sees patients with visual impairments in the Low Vision Rehabilitation Clinic as well as patients in the Primary Care Clinic. She teaches low vision, ocular disease and interprofessional studies, and does research in diabetes and low vision. She believes that he patient is the central part of their health care team and encourages everyone to embrace their own health.

 


 

Lance McNaughton,OD

Lance McNaughton, OD, PhD - Chief of Contact Lens Services, Assistant Professor

Dr. McNaughton joins us from the Washington, DC, region where he was in private practice since 2006. Several years earlier he came to the USA to begin clinical practice in South Carolina. Originally from Canada, he initially served as a faculty member and clinician at the College of Optometry in Madrid, Spain. At the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, Dr. McNaughton obtained a PhD in pharmacology. Subsequently, he earned his OD degree from the New England College of Optometry in Boston. Dr. McNaughton combines a strong background in diagnostics and therapeutics with a fresh blend of contemporary insight and perspective into student affairs.

 


 

Kristy Remick-Waltman,OD

Kristy Remick-Waltman, OD, FCOVD - Director of Community Outreach, Assistant Professor

Dr. Remick-Waltman joins WesternU from Northern California where she was in private practice for 25 years specializing in vision rehabilitation and therapy. Dr. Remick-Waltman has worked with the San Bernardino Juvenile Hall in the Vision Perception clinic and with the California State Legislature on children’s vision issues. As the Director of Community Outreach, she will serve as the liaison for the development of the community screenings and clinical optometry clerkship curriculum. Her knowledge and experience will be extremely useful in setting up the community screenings with the Pomona Unified School District. Her background in vision therapy and rehabilitation has significantly contributed in the development of the pediatrics, binocular vision, and neuro-optometric curricula.

 


 

Valerie Quan Wren,OD

Valerie Quan Wren, OD, FAAO – Chief of Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation, Associate Professor

Dr. Wren joins WesternU from the State University of New York College of Optometry where she served as Assistant Clinical Professor and Residency Program Supervisor involved in multispecialty clinical education and research for 10 years. Additionally, she brings experience from hospital-based, rehabilitation, psychiatric, VA medical center, private practice, and outpatient surgical settings. As a Neuro-Optometrist, her focus lies in evaluation, treatment and interdisciplinary management of patients with acquired brain injury. She provides state-of-the-art diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative assessments to enhance her patient’s visual capabilities, daily activities and quality of life. She is actively involved in clinical research and continuing professional education in the area of Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation.

 


 

 

Jasmine Wong Yumori,OD

Jasmine Wong Yumori, OD FAAO- Assistant Professor

Dr. Yumori joins WesternU from the West Los Angeles VA Health Care Center, where she completed her residency training in geriatric and primary care optometry. Dr. Yumori has also worked in a group private practice setting mainly caring for glaucoma patients. An honors graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Optometry, Dr. Yumori also completed her undergraduate training with honors in biology and psychology at UC Berkeley. Dr. Yumori has a special interest in caring for patients with eye diseases such as glaucoma, serving low vision patients, and traveling abroad as part of the Volunteer Optometric Service Organization and the Flying Samaritans to provide eye care in developing countries.