Wellstar Eye Care

As a comprehensive ophthalmologist, Dr. Ulrich provides for a wide spectrum of eye care extending from the need for glasses and care of dry eyes to cataract surgery, early diabetic eye disease and medical glaucoma. His clinical care includes diagnosis and management of cataracts, refractive error, glaucoma, diseases of the anterior segment and diabetic retinopathy screening. Cataract surgery is chief among his clinical interests. He leads the residency program at Augusta University and is involved in research in the diabetic retinopathy screening arena. He has provided ophthalmology services internationally, traveling to Mombasa, Kenya, and Hauna Village, Papua New Guinea.

Dr. Estes completed her undergraduate education at Davidson College in North Carolina. She received her medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine where she graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honors society. Following medical school, she completed her ophthalmology residency and a fellowship in cornea and refractive surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Dr. Estes focuses on medical treatment of diseases involving the cornea. She also performs surgical procedures including corneal transplantation (penetrating keratoplasty and Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty), cataract extraction, pterygium excision, removal of corneal tumors and ocular surface reconstruction.

Dr. Brooks specializes in the medical and surgical ophthalmic care of children and adults with strabismus. He completed his medical training at Johns Hopkins University, University of Southern California and University of Michigan. He has been actively involved in patient care, research and education throughout his ophthalmology career, working in Augusta as well as at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in New York.

Dr. Bollinger attended the University of Wisconsin and completed her medical training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She achieved her doctorate degree under the mentorship of Drs. Jay and Maureen Neitz in the area of cone photoreceptor cell biology. Dr. Bollinger completed her ophthalmology residency and fellowship in glaucoma at the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute. She then served on staff at the institute as a member of the Glaucoma department. She specializes in screening, diagnosis and management of all forms of adult glaucoma. She performs laser procedures, glaucoma surgery and cataract surgery using state-of-the-art techniques. Dr. Bollinger is the principal investigator of a glaucoma research laboratory directed toward identifying early disease markers for glaucoma and targets for therapeutic intervention. She is the recipient of an American Health Assistance Foundation postdoctoral grant from the Glaucoma Research Foundation.