Glen Elliott, OD

Bio

Glen Elliott, OD, took a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by graduate study at McGill University in Montreal and at Pennsylvania State University. The optometry doctorate came from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, earned alongside a second bachelor's degree in visual science.

The practice is weighted toward medical eye care. Glaucoma is followed over years, with pressure checks and imaging that track whether the optic nerve is holding, and diabetic eye disease is watched on a similar schedule, because the retina changes before a patient notices anything. Macular degeneration is monitored for the shift from the dry form to the wet, where timing matters most. Dry eye and the wider group of ocular surface conditions take up a particular share of the week, and the aim there is to work out what is driving the surface failure rather than to treat the symptom on its own.

Before optometry there was the United States Navy, where Dr. Elliott trained as a surgical technologist while serving as a hospital corpsman, including a tour during Operation Desert Storm. Mission work has since taken that further, to Morocco and to remote villages along the Bering Sea in Alaska. Home is Mechanicsburg, with wife Michelle, three dogs, four grown daughters, and a good deal of camping and gardening. In Dr. Elliott's own words, "Dry eye gets dismissed as a nuisance, but for people who have it badly it shapes how the whole day goes. I would rather spend the time working out why a surface is failing than hand someone another bottle of drops." Patients can visit Dr. Elliott at Ludwick Eye Center in Chambersburg and Waynesboro.