Christopher Aaron Tollett, OD, an Optometrist with Bell Vision Center
Get to know Optometrist Dr. Christopher Aaron Tollett, who serves patients in Nashville, Arkansas.
An excellent optometrist, Dr. Tollett sees patients at Bell Vision Center in Nashville, Arkansas. He has always enjoyed being of service to other people and he believes that optometry is an occupation that he will be able to give back to the community in.
Pertaining to his educational background, he graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Arkansas State University in 2016, and earned his Doctor of Optometry degree from the Southern College of Optometry in 2020, where he was President of the Arkansas Optometric Student Association (AOSA), and Missions Coordinator for the Christian Medical and Dental Association.
Passionate about his profession, the doctor is board-certified by the American Board of Optometry, which was established to serve the public and the optometry profession by assessing and certifying the competency of optometrists.
Optometry is a health care profession that involves examining the eyes and applicable visual systems for defects or abnormalities, as well as diagnosing and managing eye disease. Optometrists are healthcare professionals who provide primary eye care through comprehensive eye examinations to detect and treat various visual abnormalities and eye diseases. Being a regulated profession, an optometrist’s scope of practice may differ depending on the location. Thus, disorders or diseases detected outside the treatment scope of optometry (i.e. those requiring certain surgical interventions) are referred out to relevant medical professionals for proper care, more commonly to ophthalmologists who are physicians that specialize in the tertiary medical and surgical care of the eye. Optometrists typically work closely together with other eye care professionals, such as ophthalmologists and opticians, to deliver quality and efficient eye care to the general public.
Among his most notable achievements, Dr. Tollett has been the recipient of the AOSA Student of the Year Award in 2019.
Happily married, he and his wife, Lisa Marie, welcomed a son, Rhett Allen, in February 2021.
