Welcome to Healthy Eyes on Pickens
Call us at (803) 306-6121 today.
Welcome to Healthy Eyes on Pickens in Columbia. Dr. Peter Candela and the Healthy Eyes on Pickens team strive to provide the finest in optometry services. We invite you to browse our website to learn more about our optometry services, and invite you to join our patient family by scheduling an eye exam appointment at our Columbia office.
Healthy Eyes on Pickens is a full service eye and vision care provider and will take both eye emergencies as well as scheduled appointments. Patients throughout the Columbia area come to Healthy Eyes on Pickens because they know they will receive the personal attention and professional care that is our foundation. Dr. Candela and our team are dedicated to keeping our patients comfortable and well-informed at all times. At Healthy Eyes on Pickens, we will explain every exam and procedure and answer all of our patient's questions. Additionally, at Healthy Eyes on Pickens, we offer vision financing options and will work with vision insurance providers to ensure good eye health and vision care for all of our patients.
Our Approach to Optometry
Our one-on-one approach to optometry makes Dr. Candela and the Healthy Eyes on Pickens staff the eye and vision care providers of choice in the Columbia area. Dr. Candela offers the following services: complete eye exams, contact lenses, glasses, glaucoma testing, and pre- and post-operative care. For a complete list of services, visit our services page or call our Columbia office at (803) 306-6121.
At Healthy Eyes on Pickens, we are dedicated to providing high-quality optometry services in a comfortable environment. Call us at (803) 306-6121 or schedule an appointment today online.
Dr. Peter Candela
Healthy Eyes on Pickens | (803) 306-6121
1518 Pickens St. Suite A
Columbia , SC 29201
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Meet The Doctor
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Dr. Peter CandelaDr. Candela received his Doctor of Optometry degree from Southern College of Optometry Memphis, Tennessee in 1985. He practiced in Memphis for eight years and was awarded in 1987, Tennessee’s Young Optometrist of the Year award. He moved to the Columbia, South Carolina area in 1993.
His training and background are in general optometry, eye disease management and treatment, ocular disease, and contact lenses. He sees children from infancy on up, treats eye infections, inflammations, foreign body removal, glaucoma and other conditions of the eye caused by systemic disease, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
Dr. Candela is a member of the American Optometric Association and the South Carolina Optometric Physicians Association. Dr. Candela currently serves as Vice President of the South Carolina Board of Examiners in Optometry. He is an active member and past President of both the Midlands Optometric Society and the South Carolina Optometric Physicians Association.
In 2008 Dr. Candela was selected by the South Carolina Optometric Physicians Association as South Carolina Optometrist of the year.
He was one of the first 500 Optometrists nationally to pass a National Board Certification exam and to achieve diplomate status in the American Board of Optometry. It is the first certification and maintenance of certification program in the Optometric profession.
He currently serves as a reservist at the rank of Lt. Colonel in the South Carolina Air National Guard, McEntire Joint Air National Guard Base.
Hours of Operation
Our Regular Schedule
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
By Appointment Only
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Healthy Eyes on Pickens
1518 Pickens St. Suite A
Columbia, SC 29201, US
(803) 306-6121
(803) 306-6122
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