Originally from Webster Springs, WV, Dr. Carpenter earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from West Virginia Weslyan University.  She graduated from Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 1999.  Upon graduation, Dr. Carpenter relocated to Lexington, Kentucky and started her practice in 2000.

Dr. Maggard originally hails from a small town in southeast Kentucky known as Buckhorn. She graduated from Georgetown College with a B.S. in 2002. Dr. Maggard then went to the University of Kentucky in pursuit of a M.P.H. that she put on hold to pursue her dream of becoming an optometrist. Dr. Maggard graduated from Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 2007. Dr. Maggard re-located to Lexington upon graduation and has found her home with Eyemax.

Dr. Mattson grew up on the coast of Maine in the town of Bucksport.  Having bad eyes as a young child and watching his grandfather go blind from macular degeneration, Dr. Mattson developed an interest in optometry at an early age.  He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology/Pre-Med from The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.  Dr. Mattson then decided to escape the cold New England winters and moved to California where he earned his Doctor of Optometry degree form the University of Californa Berkeley School of Optometry in 2000.  Dr. Mattson moved to Lexington, Kentucky and started his practice in Nicholasville in 2000.

Dr. Mattson and Dr. Carpenter happily merged their lives when they married in 2005 and then merged their practices to form EyeMax.

Suzannah Rowland Rich, O.D. is a two time graduate of Indiana University, receiving her doctor of optometry degree in 1996 from the Indiana University School of Optometry in Bloomington, IN.  She practiced optometry for two and one half years in Indiana before moving back to her home state of Kentucky, where she has been in practice since that time.  Dr. Rich joined Eyemax in November 2004.