Steve Jacobs, OD

Specialties

Comprehensive optometric care — from diagnosing and treating your pink eye to finding and ordering you pink eyeglass frames — from helping remove something that got in your eye to teacing you how to put a contact lens in your eye — from speding the time it takes to understand your visual needs to spending the time it takes so you understand why we recommend what we do — from greeting you like a friend (old or new) to being sure you leave with a smile (and one of Fran’s cookies).

History

Established in 1990.

Dr. Jacobs has been caring for the eyes of his neighbors in Blacksburg and the New River Valley since escaping from New York in 1988. After working for another local eyecare establishment, Dr. Jacobs gathered the courage and financial resources to open the North Main Street office in 1990 — and hasn’t looked back.

Mission Statement

Dr. Steve Jacobs, Optometrist, opened in August, 1990 with the goal of helping our community to see well, look good, and be informed on issues of visual health and well-​being. It is our business to provide comprehensive optometric eye care. It is our pleasure to treat our patients as members of our extended families. We strive to know our patients’ needs and wants, and to provide personalized attention in a unique atmosphere offering warmth, knowledge, skill and fun. And a fresh baked cookie with every visit.

Meet the Business Owner

Steve J.

Business Owner

Hailing from wild and wonderful Brooklyn NY, Dr. Jacobs earned his undergraduate degree in Behavioral Biology from Cornell U in 1979. Enjoying the intellectual stimulation (and lack of true responsibility) that further studies offered, he persued a Master’s in Child Development at Michigan State U (1982), where he met his bright and lovely bride to be. Realizing that he couldn’t dodge gainful employment forever, he followed his father’s (the owner of a small dress store in Brooklyn) sage suggestion and pursued optometry as a career — a pleasant melding of science, working with people, and being one’s own boss.

Dr. Jacobs graduated number one in his class from SUNY College of Optometry in 1986 and remained one more year when offered a Fellowship in Learning Disablities.

Fortuitous circumstances and lack of tethers to any particular area landed the Jacobs family in the unknown, but quickly appreciated, delightful land of Blacksburg in 1988. And, as they say, the rest is history.