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The experienced eye doctors and staff at South Penn Eye Care are here to help you.
Meet John Baer, M.D., board certified eye physician and surgeon and Howard Hartzell, O.D., licensed optometrist.
John C. Baer, M.D. Board Certified Ophthalmologist John C. Baer, M.D. graduated from Swarthmore College and received his medical degree from the University of Maryland
School of Medicine. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore and his ophthalmology
residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Following residency, Dr. Baer completed clinical and research fellowships, specializing in cornea and ocular immunology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard University School of Medicine. Before entering private practice, Dr. Baer served as an Associate Professor and Acting Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and as Chief of the Ophthalmology Service at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center. Dr. Baer is a board certified eye physician and surgeon and a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Howard R. Hartzell, III, O.D. Licensed Optometrist Dr. Hartzell graduated magna cum laude from Wilkes University and received his Doctor of Optometry
degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Phildelphia. He has more than 17 years of optometric experience,
including serving as an affiliate staff optometrist at the Wilmer Eye Clinic of Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Dr. Hartzell, a licensed optometrist in Pennsylvania and Maryland, provides comprehensive medical eye examinations, using his expertise to measure for glasses and to diagnose and evaluate diseases of the eye. Dr. Hartzell also fits all styles of contact lenses, including soft, rigid, toric, bifocal and specialty lenses. Dr. Hartzell comments, "I try to treat my patients as if they were a member of my family. People want you to listen to them and my philosophy is that you do whatever it takes to help them get the best possible vision." |
