Our Practice

David Baba, OD

Dr. Baba was born in Selma, California and raised on their small family raisin vineyard. He attended California State University, Fresno and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Optometry. His children are Kristina, who is a happily married mother of three, Christopher, a firefighter for the State of California and Connor, who attended California State University, Stanislaus as a music major and now attends Hartford University studying for his masters degree.

Dr. Baba ia a member of the American Optometric Association, and California Optometric Association. His professional activities include Site Conservation Chairman for the Merced Breakfast Lions Club and his hobbies include watching Fresno State and Cal football and basketball teams, exercising at the sport club, and traveling to new optometric continuing education locales.

Savahana

Savahana is our billing specialist. She will take care of any insurance questions or concerns. She is also trained to do pre-testing as well as frame adjustments.

Savahana enjoys baking and gardening in her free time.

Diane

Diane is our main optical stylist and she will help guide you in selecting a fashionable frame and the proper lenses to match your needs. Diane is fluent in Portuguese and understands Spanish. She also has seventeen years customer service experience.

Diane is married with 2 grown daughters.

Victoria

Victoria is our pre-tester and she performs non-contact tonometry, auto-refractor, and visual field testing. She can also perform OCT scans and take retinal photos. She is also trained on using our new state of the art Opto-map wide field retinal imager.

Victoria enjoys visiting her family in Missouri as well as traveling abroad.

Celeste

Celeste is one of our new opticians. She will be happy to assist you in your eyeglass selection as well as frame adjustments. Celeste is fluent in Spanish.

She is a recent graduate of California State University Stanislaus and is looking forward to graduate school in the future.

Kerri

Kerri will usually be the person to cheerfully greet you upon entering our office. She is trusted with maintaining the daily patient schedule so that there is plenty of time for your appointment.
She is also highly skilled as a frame stylist and can also help with insurance questions. Retinal photography and OCT scans of your retina and optic nerve can be performed by her as well.

She has worked in the optical industry since 1994.

Kerri loves to go camping, travel and visit Las Vegas as much as time allows! She has 2 grown children and one grandaughter.