00:00:00:00 - 00:00:13:09 Unknown My name is Steve Njeru. I'm one of the comprehensive optometrists here at the Ohio State University, the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, but you'll find a lot of my patients and staff even just like to say Stevie or Dr. Stevie. 00:00:13:09 - 00:00:22:16 Unknown My patient care philosophy is all about patient centered, and so that's allowing patients to be involved in, you know, the management and treatment of the different conditions that we'll 00:00:22:16 - 00:00:39:16 Unknown be going over. That can include glaucoma diabetic retinopathy management, macular degeneration, red eyes, dry eyes, and so my goal is to always allow each and every patient to feel comfortable as we're going through different treatments and bringing them back for different visits, as well as giving them the informed consent to 00:00:39:16 - 00:00:40:25 Unknown participate in their care. 00:00:40:25 - 00:00:43:18 Unknown In terms of patients I see, it's a wide variety. 00:00:43:18 - 00:00:45:08 Unknown Any condition is really welcome. 00:00:45:08 - 00:00:59:16 Unknown That's the beautiful thing about comprehensive optometry. The goal is to treat everything from the front to the back of the eye and manage as much as we can. And if we can't, we have our colleagues in ophthalmology to take care of things that involve more surgical cases. 00:00:59:16 - 00:01:14:16 Unknown I graduated from the Ohio State College. Optometry. That's where I got my doctorate as well as I did an additional degree, a master's in visual sciences. So I had the opportunity to work with, low vision, students at the Ohio School of the blind. 00:01:14:16 - 00:01:20:24 Unknown And then you can do additional fellowships. So I did obtain, a fellowship with the American Academy of Optometry 00:01:20:24 - 00:01:21:03 Unknown And then I 00:01:21:03 - 00:01:33:13 Unknown had the opportunity to join an organization in undergrad and to see an optometrist actually talk about his life. And so it just seemed interesting about how he said the eyes could be affected by, you know, diabetes, 00:01:33:13 - 00:01:37:06 Unknown autoimmune conditions, like, you know, rheumatoid arthritis or lupus. 00:01:37:09 - 00:01:56:09 Unknown And so it sounded like he really enjoyed his job and the patients that he took care of and that just spoke to me. And I just went from there, and I had the opportunity to come to Ohio State to be a part of a program called I-Doc at the College of Optometry, where they just kind of showed us what the life of being an optometrist was, and from there, the rest is history. 00:01:56:09 - 00:02:05:10 Unknown Originally my parents were actually from Kenya. That's where they're born. And then we all grew up in Florida, so I have three siblings. We all kind of live different places. 00:02:05:10 - 00:02:11:26 Unknown So a lot of people always ask me why I ended up moving to Ohio. And really the main reason was to come to school here at Ohio State. 00:02:11:26 - 00:02:24:25 Unknown Currently I live in the Pickerington area. That's where my community is right now. I'm with my new fiance. And so we have two dogs, one named Zuri, one named Millie, they're both very tiny cavapoos. 00:02:24:25 - 00:02:40:24 Unknown Outside of work I do enjoy things like, you know, disc golf, we like traveling a lot. One of the most enjoyable kind of vacations I've had is going to Netherlands to see the tulips and all the beautiful colors that they have over there. And so those are kind of the few things I like to do outside of just looking at eyes. 00:02:40:24 - 00:02:49:14 Unknown Choosing to work here has been a great opportunity. I've loved the patients I've taken care of so far, and the different ophthalmologist I've gotten a chance to work with. 00:02:49:14 - 00:02:51:11 Unknown so I've really enjoyed my time here