Primary Eye Care
Routine Eye Care
Macular Degeneration
Glaucoma
Bio
Allison LaFata, OD, is an optometrist whose residency subject was ocular disease. Undergraduate work finished cum laude at Wagner College led to a Doctor of Optometry from the SUNY College of Optometry, which also awarded the Scott Tasker Folsom Scholarship. Internship training took in a Veterans Affairs hospital in Brooklyn along with a specialty referral practice in New Jersey, and the residency year followed at the same practice.
Adults and older adults with eye disease make up the clinical work. Patients are seen for diagnosis and then for the ongoing management that eye disease usually requires over time.
Dr. LaFata directs the West Orange center and teaches as adjunct clinical faculty, with appointments at four colleges of optometry. Membership includes the American Optometric Association along with the state optometric society in New Jersey. In Dr. LaFata's own words, "Eye disease in older adults is often silent until it starts costing vision, so I would rather see someone early and follow them closely than meet them after the damage is done. Explaining what I am seeing, in plain language, is half the job." Patients can schedule a visit with Dr. LaFata at the West Orange office of Omni Eye Services.