Susan Szmyd M.D.

If your child is in need of eye care from an experienced eye doctor then Dr. Susan Szmyd is the perfect person to go see. Dr. Szmyd specializes in eye exams and surgery for the little ones. She has a long history of correcting pesky eye problems in children.
When I was very little, Dr. Szmyd operated on my right eye repairing some of the muscles below the eye. Now I can’t say that I remember the surgery because I was very little, but it was the first step of many that she took to correct my lazy eye. Over the next 10 years, Dr. Szmyd worked with patches, glasses, and eye exercised to successfully correct my lazy eye. I still wear glasses due to some farsightedness, but now that eye is the least of my worries.
Dr. Szmyd is so kind and gentle. I’ve always been afraid of eye drops and she always calmed me down and went slowly so it wasn’t as bad. She really is great with kids.
Dr. Szmyd is located just off Kenwood Road Her office is extremely kid friendly with lots of toys and building blocks in the waiting room. Inside the examination room she has teddy bears and toys stashed in various corners of the room that she has the patient focus on for different aspects of the exam. At one point she also plays portions of Disney movies on the television below the eye chart to distract the children. Then, when it’s all over, the kid gets a yummy popsicle.