Melissa Vetter, O.D.

Dr. Vetter attended The Ohio State University for her undergraduate and Optometric studies. She received the Vistakon Award for Excellence in Clinical Contact Lens Care her senior year in Optometry school and graduated in the top ten of her class. Upon graduation in 1988, Dr. Vetter was selected to do a one-year residency at the Columbus and Chillicothe Veterans Administration Medical Centers, where she received specialized training seeing patients with advanced medical and ocular conditions in a hospital setting.

After her residency, Dr. Vetter joined a large Ophthalmology practice in Concord, New Hampshire where she enjoyed seeing her own patients as well as consulting with the Ophthalmologists in the care of the low vision, contact lens and post-operative patients. Dr. Vetter returned to the Columbus area and worked at The Ohio State University College of Optometry as a clinic instructor to the students, and at the Veterans Administration in Columbus seeing patients and teaching Optometry students.

Dr. Vetter has been in practice in northwest Columbus since 1992. She joined Northwest Vision Center in 2002, but has known Dr. Min since high school, and Dr. Schiff since college.

Dr. Vetter has served as an examiner for the National Board of Examiners in Optometry for many years helping to license new Optometrists, and volunteers her time with the Prevent Blindness of Ohio organization. She has enjoyed serving as a judge for the Central Ohio District Science Fair projects related to vision, and helping students understand more about their eyes and vision at career days. Dr. Vetter enjoys seeing patients of all ages, fitting the most challenging of contact lens patients, and treating eye disease. She likes to treat her patients as if they were part of her family.

In her spare time, Dr. Vetter enjoys snow skiing, boating, jet skiing, golf and running after her kids. She lives in Hilliard with her husband, Bruce, and their three children, Mitch, Tessa and Tory.