should get an annual eye exam. “The reality is that a lot of other problems can occur with those patients that may only be caught by an MD. Glaucoma is a blinding, asymptomatic disease like diabetes. It eats your vision up, and you don’t know unless you get your eyes checked.” When Catoira-Boyle learned that Drs. Anne and Greg Clark, ophthalmologists who had been in practice on the north side of Indianapolis for nearly 20 years, were interested in selling the practice, she made an offer and renamed the business Visionary Eye Specialists. Eager to provide comprehensive eye care, including prescriptions for glasses and contacts, she is also a skilled cataract and glaucoma surgeon who performs both sutureless, outpatient cataract surgery with topical anesthesia (numbing with eye drops only and sedation), as well as minimally invasive glaucoma surgery that involves microscopic equipment and tiny incisions. “We can combine cataract surgery with minimally invasive glaucoma surgery in very little time and with very little risk,” says Catoira-Boyle, noting that if a patient is using eye drops to lower pressure and they need cataract surgery, she can put a stent in the eye and chances are the patient won’t need to use eye drops for awhile. “In my 17 years as a glaucoma specialist, I’ve been an early adopter of safer procedures such as the Express shunt as well as the minimally invasive procedures. They allow us to do earlier and safer glaucoma surgery, and minimize the dependence on eye drops for the rest of a patient’s life.” Catoira-Boyle and her husband AJ Boyle have two children, Gabryela, 11, and Arthur Joseph, 13. In her free time she enjoys golfing, traveling, watching her children play sports, and attending the Indy 500. “I fell in love with the Meridian-Kessler area a long time ago and am proud to call Broad Ripple home,” Catoira-Boyle says. “It is truly a hidden gem.”
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