Dr. Nakhlis is an eye doctor in Des Plaines providing complete eye care services for the surrounding communities.
As a licensed optometrist, Dr. Nakhlis provides exams, diagnoses, and treatments of all disorders that affect the eye or vision. In addition to training in eye diseases and disorders, Dr. Nakhlis is also trained in anatomy, biochemistry, and physiology. With this background, Dr. Nakhlis is trained to recognize a range of health issues; such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and hypertension. Dr. Nakhlis works hard to stay current on the latest advances in eye health and vision care and regularly attends continuing education seminars and advanced training courses. It is because of Dr. Nakhlis's dedication to continuing education that our Des Plaines patients receive the most modern and progressive vision care available.
As such, our Doctor, Vlada Nakhlis, is fully licensed and eager to provide all the services listed above, along with other "outside the box" vision related preventative and diagnostic/therapeutic procedures, such as myopia control/Orthokeratology/binocular vision disorders treatment and specialty contact lens fittings. They volunteer at schools, providing complementary eye exams to underprivileged kids. They give back to the community on a regular basis by volunteering at the Special Olympics, donating time and money to organizations like "Give Sight" and "InfantSee", and are members of the Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce. They are proactive at promoting public awareness on the subject of Eyehealth and vision care by providing educational seminars and presentations to staff, colleagues, patients, schools, retirement/nursing homes for seniors.
We provide complete array of eyecare services, ranging from preventative comprehensive eyecare that includes education on the nutritional effects on eye health, to all sorts of medical eye emergencies. As a member of American Academy of Orthokeratology & Myopia Control (AAOMC), and College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD), Dr. Vlada Nakhlis specializes in myopia control management with methods such as OrthoKeratology, atropine therapy, and several refractive options such as Multifocal contact lenses and glasses, and computer glasses for Computer Vision Fatigue Syndrome. Dr. Vlada Nakhlis also focuses heavily on the binocular vision disorder diagnosis and treatment for both kids and adults, Specialty Lens fittings for ocular surface diseases that require it such as Keratoconus and Corneal Dystrophies, and over-night wear of Orthokeratology (AKA as CRT) lenses for a complete daytime correction of refractive error, as an alternative to Lasik/PRK surgery which is especially useful for kids.
As a member of American Diabetic Association (ADA), I set up my office and entire work team in such a way that we pride ourselves on providing a very compehensive Diabetic Eye Disease evaluation, management and treatment, that includes an in-office Blood glucose level measuring, Blood Pressure measuring, and nutritional/lifestyle education on diet, exercise, supplementation, and smoking cessating counseling, which should for sure facilitate you in achieving the highest MIPS scores possible. ***Speaking of MIPS, we are fully educated on this program, participate in it full time, and collaborate with all our specialist and PCP colleagues on this subject very well by providing MIPS-appropriate eye exam reports back to them in a very timely manner.
Dr. Vlada Nakhlis is a proud member of: Illinois Optometric Association (IOA), American Optometric Association (AOA), American Diabetic Association (ADA), American Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control (AAOMC), College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD), OD Excellence (ODX), IDOC, and Professional Eye Care Associates of America (PECAA).