BUSINESS FEATURE
BY SIERRA ROZEN
The optometrist o ce o ers eye exams and ttings for both glasses and contacts.
BUSINESS FEATURE
Falcon Pass Vision Center opened in the Clear Lake area in 2007.
Dr. Russell Malik (left) and Dr. Lisa Maxwell (right) met at the University of Houston.
PHOTOS BY SIERRA ROZEN COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
Falcon Pass Vision Center Optometrists set sights on local eye health in Clear Lake A community-centered optometrist is unusually hard to nd these days, come see us, and it was a little far to go over to the Hobby Airport area,” Maxwell said. “We were hav- ing to kind of serve the community BY SIERRA ROZEN
The vision center reopened in May 2020 after closing due to the pandemic.
up May 5, 2020, so they could continue to serve the community that was depending on them. On an average day the couple sees about 18 to 20 patients with problems ranging from medical emergencies to getting tted for contacts or glasses. They also provide pre- and post-operation services to patients receiving LASIK surgery. “We’ve just tried to make every- body as happy and comfortable as possible,” Maxwell said. Overall, the biggest thing Malik and Maxwell could stress is the importance of taking care of one’s eye health, and they iterated the need for regular eye exams. “Just because you can see doesn’t mean you don’t have things like glaucoma,” Malik said. “Contact lenses are not just a toy. Some people really abuse them. So it’s a health issue. [What’s import- ant] to me is just keeping those eyes healthy.”
Falcon Pass Vision Center 2409 Falcon Pass Drive, Ste. 180, Houston 281-461-3937 www.falconpassvision.com Hours: Mon.-Fri 10 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Sat.-Sun. COMMONTREATABLE EYE ISSUES • Nearsightedness: Objects that are far away are blurry. • Farsightedness: Objects that are close up are blurry. • Astigmatism: One eye is curved di erently than the other. • Presbyopia: Eyes lose the ability to focus on nearby objects.
according to Dr. Lisa Maxwell, which is what led to her and her husband, Dr. Russell Malik, opening Falcon Pass Vision Center in 2007. The couple initially met in optometry school at the University of Houston. Maxwell has been practicing since 1989, and Malik has been practicing since 1991. Malik originally opened a practice near the Hobby Airport in 1992, while Maxwell worked with another partner around Scarsdale. Eventually, they realized their local clientele base was having di culty with driving all the way out to Hobby Airport, which was the catalyst for opening the one in the Clear Lake area. “We started noticing that after being in the community for a long time that people were wanting to
in our house in some ways.” Once the business opened in 2007, Maxwell was the main owner until Malik o cially joined the practice in 2019 after closing the one near the airport. The rst focus of the new business was providing sports glasses for children after they saw a lack of them at other optometrists. The community they practice in has a large sports presence; Maxwell said “everyone is very sports minded.” “I just kept having people asking for sports glasses for their children, and it just kind of oored me that nobody really had a focus on kids and recreational sports glasses,” she said. Despite the pandemic putting a small hurdle in their operations, the couple o cially opened back
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