Dr. Stamper had a vision to create an eye care experience that is both unique and focused on the comfort and convenience of the patient. He and his wife Cristin brought that vision to life in May 2008, when Visionary Eyecare Center became the first new private eye care facility to open in Hendersonville in almost 20 years.

The practice has been carefully crafted to be as comfortable and inviting as possible, with an atmosphere that some say more closely resembles a spa than a typical doctor’s office. Earthy elements provide the atmosphere, including a stacked stone fireplace and accents, a flowing water feature, pleasant music, soothing aromatherapy, and large cozy chairs in the patient lounge.

The eye care procedures have been selected for comfort and accuracy, which means getting rid of the tests that patients hate most. Instead of the traditional and unfriendly air puff test, Dr. Stamper uses a more accurate and more comfortable method known as Goldmann tonometry. Thanks to revolutions in imaging technology, most patients have their eyes scanned by an instrument called the Optomap, which helps assess the health inside the eyes without requiring eye dilation.

The practice is a newly built office located in one of Hendersonville’s most beautiful new office buildings, Club Place, which is located at the corner of Gallatin Road and Country Club Drive, and which is also home to the Hendersonville Area Chamber of Commerce. The practice is a spacious 2,300 square feet, which provides plenty of room to grow in the next several years.

Dr. Eric Stamper is the founder, owner and sole practitioner of Visionary Eyecare Center, which opened in May 2008. A native of Hendersonville, Dr. Stamper earned his optometry degree with honors from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis in 2007 and immediately returned to Hendersonville to set about opening Visionary Eyecare Center with the help of his wife Cristin. Since returning to Hendersonville, Dr. Stamper has sought an active leadership role in the local community through involvement in numerous charitable events and membership in a variety of organizations, including the Hendersonville Morning Rotary, Gallatin Lions Club, Hendersonville and Gallatin Chambers of Commerce, Leadership Sumner, and Sumner United for Responsible Government.

While at optometry school, Dr. Stamper was a leader in his class, leading more than 80 students and optometrists in sight missions to Latin America during his term as president of SVOSH (Student Volunteers in Optometric Service to Humanity). He also served a year as the international president for the Gold Key optometric leadership society and maintained membership in the Beta Sigma Kappa honor society. Since entering practice in 2007, Dr. Stamper has maintained a high level of industry participation through several doctor-led organizations, including the Middle Tennessee Optometric Society, North Central Optometric Society, Tennessee Optometric Association, and the American Optometric Society.

Dr. Stamper and his wife Cristin live in "Gallisonville" (their term for the area where Gallatin and Hendersonville meet). They have two sweet (but feisty!) Pomeranians named Cinnamon and Mocha. Dr. Stamper’s various organizational memberships keep him very busy both day and night, but in his spare time he enjoys visiting with his parents and brothers who are still in and around Hendersonville, dining at local restaurants, playing poker, falling asleep while watching the Discovery Channel, and is passionate about good governance, free enterprise, and the principles of the nation’s Constitution and founding.

Cristin Stamper, Office Manager

Originally from Savannah, Georgia, Cristin has been a resident of Tennessee since 1999. She first became interested in eye care when she received LASIK surgery in 2002 after being extremely nearsighted since the age of six (about a -12.00 prescription). Amazed by the results of her procedure, she began working at Southern Eye Associates, an eye surgery center in Memphis.

During her five years at Southern Eye Associates, Cristin quickly acquired a whole new set of skills as an ophthalmic scribe, technician and surgery assistant and counselor. She received certification for the NIDEK EC-5000 laser and microkeratome and the IntraLase laser for blade-free LASIK. She was also able to expand her creative graphic design skills as their marketing assistant, producing patient education materials, flyers, presentations, brochures, websites and more.

Cristin now works alongside her husband (they were married in his first year of optometry school in 2003) as Visionary Eyecare Center's office manager, technician, optician and marketing assistant. She oversees just about every aspect of the office from check-in to check-out as well as designing all marketing materials, business cards, and the company website. In her free time, Cristin is learning to play the piano and enjoys watching movies, dining at nearby restaurants, playing video games, and watching her favorite television shows on the Discovery, Syfy or History channels.