Meet Our Staff
Meet the experienced and friendly staff who make Eyes on the Diamond the leading provider of vision care products and services in State College and surrounding communities.
Joan Morgan, BS
Joan is our front desk assistant. She has been an associate with us since 2013. Her responsibilities include greeting patients on the phone and in person and schedule management. She has extensive experience in the medical field and also multitasks as our ophthalmic technician when needed.
Joan’s educational background is in health policy and administration, with studies in long-term care, but she has had extensive patient care experience at other local optometric offices prior to joining our care team.
She enjoys meeting our patients and hearing about their eye and vision concerns. Joan says, “It makes me happy when patients are surprised to find the care they receive is so much more comprehensive than the care they’ve received elsewhere.”
Joan is a native of Howard, PA. She lives in Reedsville with her husband, Frank. She has three sons and six grandchildren.
Anna Duncan
Valerie McKissick, CPO
Valerie is our Optometric Technician. Her responsibilities include conducting pre-testing measurements and taking scans and photos for the doctors. In addition, she manages our contact lens inventories with responsibilities for ordering and patient training in contact lens handling and care.
Valerie is a certified Para-Optometric. She is a recent transplant from Washington State in 2016. She attended Lower Columbia Community College, and has worked in healthcare for over 20 years, with the past 6 years being focused on eye care, as well as low vision, and vision rehabilitation.
Valerie has a keen interest in eye care and loves learning more in the field every day. She enjoys helping patients and likes assisting the doctors in order to enhance and retain the best vision possible. She keeps up to date by attending workshops and seminars in the field.
Valerie lives in Bellefonte with her husband and 2 children. She is an avid reader, and enjoys hiking and vacationing with family.
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