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Bio
Jessica Garden, OD, studied biology at Stony Brook University, then trained as an optometrist at Salus University. Postgraduate training in refractive surgery and eye disease followed, a residency year sponsored by the same university and served at a specialty practice in central New Jersey.
Clinical work has run continuously since that year ended in 2018. The two areas the residency covered remain the center of it, which for an optometrist means examination, medical evaluation, and monitoring rather than surgery itself. Patients who need an operation are seen through the visits on either side of it.
In Dr. Garden's own words, "Most of what protects sight is noticing a change early, so I would rather see someone twice and find nothing than miss the visit where something started. I want patients to leave able to explain their own eyes back to me." Patients can visit Dr. Garden at Phillips Eye Specialists in Elmwood Park and Union City, New Jersey.