Dr. Larry Nierman, BS, OD
Raised on Chicago’s South side, Dr. Larry is the eldest of three sons and the first to join his father at Nierman Vision Center, an optometry practice founded and operated by Dr. Cyril Nierman in 1954. Dr. Larry attended the University of Illinois-Chicago and earned his Doctor of Optometry degree from the Illinois College of Optometry where he studied ocular pathology under Dr. Paul Shulman and earned recognition as one of the graduating class’ top ten clinicians.
Dr. Larry completed an internship at Chicago’s Lighthouse for the blind and cataract extraction training under the direction of the Kraff Eye Institute, earning certification as a co-manager of Lasik laser eye surgeries. He is also a certified-CRT practitioner and the former Chicago HMO director of eyecare.
Dr. Larry has three grown sons and resides in Buffalo Grove with his wife. He is a locally-recognized artist, creating abstract oil paintings that are exhibited at art fairs throughout Metropolitan Chicago. An avid outdoorsman who enjoys camping, hiking, biking, he has visited all but two of the nation’s great national parks. He also enjoys music and plays the guitar.
Dr. Larry has been featured in the Daily Herald and Investor’s Business Daily.
Dr. David Nierman, BS, OD
Dr. David Nierman is a graduate of Northern Illinois University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. While pursuing his degrees he worked as a lab technician at Illinois Masonic Hospital and interned at Chicago’s Japanese American Clinic.
Following in the footsteps of his father, Dr. Cyril Nierman and brother, Larry, Dr. David earned his Doctor of Optometry degree from Illinois College of Optometry and joined the family-owned, family-focused practice, Nierman Vision Center, as a certified optometrist in 1983.
Dr. David’s diagnostic and therapeutic licenses are from the University of St. Louis. He has extensive training in specialty contact lens fittings, including keratoconus. He is also a certified co-manager of Lasik laser eye surgeries, having trained under Dr’s. Manus and Colman Kraff of the Kraff Eye Institute. As a principal of Nierman Vision Center, he received invitations extended exclusively to the top one percent of the nation’s optometric practices to attend the industry’s Business Academy conferences, sponsored by Varilux and Ciba.
Dr. David has three children, is a resident of Highland Park and is, like every member of the Nierman family, a devoted, die-hard fan of the Chicago White Sox. He also enjoys the outdoors, music and art.
Dr. David has been featured in the Daily Herald, Wall Street Journal, Women’s Health Magazine, Women’s World Magazine, Chicago Health & Beauty Magazine, and iParenting.com.
Dr. Kristie Charles, BS, OD
Dr. Charles is the newest addition to the Nierman Vision Center Staff. She is a recent graduate of the Illinois College of Optometry. Her undergraduate education was from the University of Wisconsin. Kristie has extensive training in the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases and is proficient in the fitting of Contact Lenses.
Kristie hails from Green Bay, Wisconsin but now calls Chicago her home. She enjoys jogging, biking and the Lake front.