Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness

Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in working-age Americans Approximately 29 million Americans age 20 or older have diabetes — but almost one-third don't know they have the disease and are at risk for vision loss and other health problems. Early symptoms are often unnoticed, therefore vision may not be affected until the disease is severe and less easily...

Cataracts

Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide Approximately 20.5 million Americans age 40 and older have cataracts. Cataracts are the clouding of the eye's clear lens-similar to a window that is "fogged" with steam. When the lens becomes cloudy, light rays cannot pass through it easily and vision becomes blurry. Cataracts are not a growth or a film over the eye. Cataracts start out ...

Macular Degeneration

Low Vision/ Age-Related Macular Degeneration Awareness A Message From Your Eye M.D. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic eye disease associated with aging that gradually destroys central vision. It's one of the leading causes of legal blindness and vision impairment in older Americans. Macular degeneration affects central vision, but not peripheral vision — therefore, it doesn...

Vitamins and Mineral Supplements for your Eyes

Vitamin and Mineral Supplements and Your Eyes Scientists have long debated whether taking vitamin and/or mineral supplements could help prevent, treat or cure certain eye conditions. Some early scientific studies seemed to show that supplements had the potential to prevent or slow the progression of cataract and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), although more complete study was needed to...

John E. Zelnar

Dr Zelnar attended Southern California College of Optometry, graduating in 1967. He spent time on the Navaho Indian Reservation caring for the Indian children's vision followed by seven years as an optometrist in the United States Air Force. Dr Zelnar moved to Klamath Falls in 1976 and with his wife Maureen, raised their four children in "Klamath Country". Dr Zelnar enjoys the full scope of op...

Edwin E. Tuhy, OD

Dr Tuhy is a 1988 graduate of the Illinois College of Optometry. He practiced in his home state of North Dakaota as well as in neighboring Minnesota before relocation to Klamath Falls in 1999. He enjoys a thriving practice involving preventive eye care, contact lens fitting, refractive surgery consultation and eye disease management. Dr Tuhy is active in the Klamath Basin community. He serves ...

Jennifer Springstead, OD

Dr Springstead joined us after graduating in 2004 from Pacific University College of Optometry. She works at both our Downtown Optical location at 629 Main St. and Klamath Eye Center. Dr Springstead has worked in eye care facilities in Corvallis and Forest Grove during her schooling, and has also had training in LASIK co-management centers and private offices throughout the Willamette Valley....

Scott Stevens, MD

Ophthalmologist Dr. Scott Stevens joined Klamath Eye Center September 2009. Dr. Stevens is from Alpine, Utah. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University and an MD degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine. Dr. Stevens completed a year of ocular pathology and intraocular lens research at the University of Utah before his intern year of residency in Tucson, Arizo...

Staff Information

Our Front Office Team is always available to answer your phone call, to greet you when you first step inside of our doors, and to get your visit to Klamath Eye Center started in a timely manner. All of our physicians at Klamath Eye Center offer vision and medical eye examinations, and our front office staff will bill either insurance as a courtesy to you. We are also available to assist you i...