Dr. Steve Wexler
Appointments: 847-473-2568
Wal-Mart Vision Center
3900 Fountain Sq. Place
Waukegan, IL 60085

About Dr. Wexler

                          

Education...Profession...Interests

Steve Wexler, O.D. grew up in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. In 1988, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois-Urbana and is a 1992 graduate  of the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago.  His optometric externship training involved treating the vision needs of multi-handicapped children at Chicago's  Gilcrest-Marchman Rehabilitation Center and performing visual rehabilitation services at the Minneapolis Society for the Blind clinic in Minnesota.
 
Back in 1994, Dr. Wexler volunteered with other optometrists and students through the American Optometric Association, their time by performing sports vision screenings for the Amateur Athletic Union's Junior Olympic Teams in Coco Beach Florida.

Dr. Wexler carefully followed the field of Laser Vision Correction and was actively involved in the management of preoperative and postoperative Laser patients.  Beginning in 1998, he served on the Board of Advisors for a national laser vision correction company. In that same year he underwent refractive surgery on his own eyes!

Over the years, Dr. Wexler expanded his practice experience by working in an eye surgeon's office.  Also, he managed patient care in several private optometric practices over the years. To date, Dr. Wexler has over 18 years of clinical experience working in many types of practices and has examined over 80,000 patients.

As his interests and life experiences evolved, Dr. Wexler set a course to fulfill one of his many dreams and that was to perform eye care services for the needy in Illinois and in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, Haiti. In the year 2000, he became an active VOSH member (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity) serving the local visual needs of the less fortunate at women's shelters and homeless shelters in the suburbs of Chicago.

In early 2003, he helped organize, train and led a large group of dedicated eye care volunteers to Duchity, Haiti (a far remote mountain village without electricity or sanitary water supply) in cooperation with St. Thomas Catholic Church of Naperville.  See, http://travel.webshots.com/album/65899853lsgcsy
If you are interested in supporting Duchity, Haiti mission trips on any level, please contact Dr. Wexler.  The people of Duchity could use your help.

Dr. Wexler continued his dream by joining forces with well-known Texas business giant, past candidate for President of Haiti, and philanthropist,  Mr. Dumas Siméus, CEO and Chairman of Siméus Foods International. (To learn more about this remarkable man, visit Wikipedia online encyclopedia at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumarsais_Simeus.)  Through the Siméus Foundation, Dr. Wexler, with a team of very dedicated health professionals and assistants conducted the Simeous Foundation's first eye care mission to Pont-Sondé, Haiti.  The Foundation has changed its name to Organisation Sove' Lavi recently and can be found at www.sovelavi.org.  Dr. Wexler has done presentations several times on third-world eye care specific to the eye care needs in Haiti.   When he formed his own corporation, he aptly named it, Goodworks Eyecare, LTD because of his conviction for doing good in all aspects of life.

Much of Dr. Wexler's success as an optometrist and volunteer in serving the poor is attributed by his great support teams. "In the care of the human individual, it takes a group, never a single individual, people with soft hands, with like-mindedness, and warm hearts to change vision and hopefully change life in the process," says Dr. Wexler.   Without the properly motivated and trained groups of people, his work and projects never would have succeeded. His philosophy is that said by Henry Ford, "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Dr. Wexler also serves in the National Board of Examiners in Optometry at the Illinois College of Optometry.   Also, Dr. Wexler serves as a Provider for the Department of Defense Medical Examination Review Board supporting the ROTC/US Service Academy Scholarship Program.  In January of 2009, he was trained in Oral Therapeutics at the Illinois College of Optometry and has been granted  licensure to prescribe and use oral pharmaceutical agents in the treatment and management of eye disease. 

In his youth, Dr. Wexler fought in the Golden Gloves and Silver Gloves boxing tournaments in the Chicago area.  He had fought over 22 bouts at the time of exiting the sport.   For years he has enjoyed long distance running.  In October 2005, he successfully completed his fifth 26.2-mile Chicago Marathon. He also enjoys learning Spanish as a second language, sharing knowledge and ideas with others, reading, drumming, playing guitar, playing ping pong, watching Academy Award-winning dramas, motorcycling and doing home repair.

He is an active American Optometric Association and Illinois Optometric Association Member. 

Dr. Wexler is a compassionate optometrist who really enjoys making a difference in peoples' lives. He loves talking with his patients & relates great with kids.  He is married, has three children and is hoping to get a dog that doesn't shed.