Patrick Burchell, MD

Edward J. Holland, MD is the Director of Cornea Services at Cincinnati Eye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati. He attended the Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago and trained in Ophthalmology at the University of Minnesota. He completed a fellowship in cornea and external disease at the University of Iowa, and then completed a second fellowship in ocular immunology at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He returned to serve as Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at the University of Minnesota. He was promoted to the position of Professor and was granted the Elias Potter Lyon Chair in Ophthalmology.

Erin Filbrandt, O.D. is an Optometrist at Cincinnati Eye Institute. Dr. Filbrandt practices comprehensive and medically focused optometry with an emphasis on anterior segment. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Dayton, where she was captain of the varsity tennis team. After spending two years performing pulmonary research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, she decided to pursue her passion for eye care. She received her Doctorate of Optometry from The Ohio State University College of Optometry where she was president of the student chapter of the American Academy of Optometry and vice president of the optometric fraternity Epsilon Psi Epsilon.

Fred Chu, M.D. is the Director of the Glaucoma Service at the Cincinnati Eye Institute and Co-director of the Glaucoma Service at the University of Cincinnati. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and was introduced to medicine by his father who was also an ophthalmologist. He completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and then returned to St. Louis to earn his medical degree from Washington University. He completed both his General Surgery internship and Ophthalmology residency at Rush University in Chicago. He then completed his fellowship in glaucoma at the prestigious Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Chu is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.