Dr. Renee Laliberte has been practicing optometry since graduating with honors from the  Michigan College of Optometry at  Ferris State University in 1997. She recieved her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the  University of Windsor. Dr. Laliberte completed three externships each providing a fundamental base for practicing primary care full scope optometry. The externships included Beaumont Hospital specializing in low vision and contact lenses, the  Duane L. Waters Hospital  in Jackson Michigan, emphasizing ocular disease management and the Saginaw Special Needs Clinic focusing on pediatric care and low vision needs.
 

Dr. Amanda Himmel was born and raised in Essexville, Michigan, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Saginaw Valley State University in 2015 with a Bachelors of Biology.  She then graduated with honors from Michigan College of Optometry in 2019. While there, she completed three externship rotations, one with a focus on primary care and contact lenses at Andersen Eye Associates in Saginaw, Michigan; one a combination between vision therapy and pediatrics at WOW Vision Therapy, and post-operative care and specialty contact lenses at Great Lakes Eye Care in St. Joseph, Michigan, and one at the Saginaw VA center with a focus on ocular disease and low vision care.

Dr. Baltierra was born in Los Angeles, California where he spent most of childhood and graduated with his undergraduate degree in biology from California State University. After undergrad, Dr. Baltierra moved to Chicago to pursue his doctorate from the Illinois College of Optometry. Upon graduation, he then completed a residency in ocular disease from the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio where he worked alongside ophthalmology residents, a retinal disease specialist and his co-optometry residents to treat advanced retinal and systemic eye disease.