Dr. Christine B. Wisecarver, OD, FAAO

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Get to know Optometrist Dr. Christine B. Wisecarver, who serves patients in Virginia.

Dr. Wisecarver is an optometrist at See Clearly Vision, seeing patients at the office locations in McLean and Arlington, Virginia. With extensive experience in surgical co-management, she is certified to use pharmaceutical agents to manage ocular diseases. She brings specific expertise and experience in the areas of complex contact lens fitting for corneal diseases such as Keratoconus, corneal trauma, and post-surgical fittings.

An integral part of the clinical study team, Dr. Wisecarver serves as an Adjunct Clinical Instructor to the Pennsylvania College of Optometry and The Inter American University in Puerto Rico.  Additionally, she serves as a Rotation Site Director for the Ophthalmic Medical Technologist Program at Georgetown University Center for Sight whereby she trains student technicians on all aspects of patient care including professionalism, ethics, and clinical skills.

The doctor’s acclaimed career in medicine began after she earned her Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of California-Berkeley School of Optometry. This was followed by a residency in ocular disease at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Hospital. 

Dedicated to clinical excellence, Dr. Wisecarver is a Diplomate of the American Board of Optometry, whose mission is to advance the quality of eye care by promoting excellence through education, assessment, practice, and professionalism for the benefit of all patients. She has participated in numerous research projects, authored peer-reviewed articles, and presented her research at many professional conferences. 

In order to stay up to date in her field, she remains a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Optometry (Fellow – FAAO), the American Optometric Association, and the Virginia Optometric Association.

Optometry is a health care profession that involves examining the eyes and applicable visual systems for defects or abnormalities, as well as diagnosing and managing eye disease. Optometrists are healthcare professionals who provide primary eye care through comprehensive eye examinations to detect and treat various visual abnormalities and eye diseases. Being a regulated profession, an optometrist’s scope of practice may differ depending on the location. Thus, disorders or diseases detected outside the treatment scope of optometry (i.e. those requiring certain surgical interventions) are referred out to relevant medical professionals for proper care, more commonly to ophthalmologists who are physicians that specialize in the tertiary medical and surgical care of the eye. Optometrists typically work closely together with other eye care professionals, such as ophthalmologists and opticians, to deliver quality and efficient eye care to the general public.

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