Laura Lundt Hanson, MD - Cincinnati Eye Institute

Aubrey R. Tirpack, M.D. is a member of the glaucoma service at Cincinnati Eye Institute. She grew up in Dayton, Ohio and attended Archbishop Alter High School. She subsequently attended Miami University followed by medical school at the University of Cincinnati. She then went on to complete residency at Tufts University in Boston, followed by a glaucoma fellowship at the prestigious Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami. She and her husband were excited to finally return to Cincinnati when she joined the Cincinnati Eye Institute.

Robert K. Hutchins, M.D. is a retina and vitreous surgeon who has been practicing in the Cincinnati and Southeast Indiana region since 1987. Dr. Hutchins teaches retinal surgery to resident physicians and vitreo-retinal surgical fellows at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where he is a member of the full-time faculty as an Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and runs the Retina Service. Dr. Hutchins’ expertise covers the entire spectrum of vitreo-retinal conditions some of which include complex retinal detachment, diabetic retinopathy, macular hole, macular pucker, macular degeneration, ocular histoplasmosis, retinal vascular disease, and posterior segment trauma.

Dr. Shana Brafman is the former Co-Director of Contact Lens Specialty Services at North Suburban Vision Consultants, Ltd. in Chicago and former Assistant Clinical Professor at the Illinois College of Optometry and Illinois Eye Institute. She practiced in Chicago for the past 7 years before moving back to her hometown of Cincinnati. Dr. Brafman is an honor’s graduate of Ohio University for her undergraduate degree, completed post baccalaureate pre-medical classes at Northwestern University, and is a Cum Laude graduate of the Illinois College of Optometry for her professional degree.