Our Practice

Rich H. Humpherys, O.D.

Dr. Rich Humpherys was born and raised in Ogden, Utah near Weber State University. He later graduated from WSU prior to his attendance and graduation from the Southern California College of Optometry.

Upon graduation from optometry school, Dr. Humpherys returned to Ogden to establish his practice and family, and has now been in practice for over 30 years. Dr. Humpherys has helped his practice grow by ensuring only the best patient care through his hard work ethic and dedication to a continuing education in optometry.

In Dr. Humpherys' personal time, he enjoys training for triathlon and marathon events. He is also an avid snow/water skier and generally enjoys taking time to experience the outdoors with his family.

Carrie Palmer, O.D.

Dr. Carrie Palmer is a North Ogden native. She graduated from Weber High School and Utah State University prior to receiving her doctorate from Southern California College of Optometry.

Dr. Palmer has practiced in the greater Ogden area for 19 years. She truly loves helping patients maintain excellent eye health while meeting their lifestyle and visual needs. She is committed to continually adding to her education to best serve her patients.

Dr. Palmer’s favorite pastimes are traveling and engaging in adventurous outdoors activities with her husband and four children. She enjoys reading, gardening and learning new things.

Elizabeth: CPOT/Manager

Elizabeth has worked for Family Vision Care for over 13 years. She is the staff member responsible for keeping all of our valued and prospective patients up to date on all the new and exciting things going on in our office. She works hard to make sure our social media sites are both informative and personal so everyone can identify with our staff on a more personal level. She also does all insurance pre-authorizations and gets any necessary referrals prior to your appointments to ensure your insurance benefits are taken care of.

Shondra: Optometric Technician

Shondra is the friendly staff member that you will meet upon coming into the office. She checks in each of our patients and ensures that we gather all of the necessary information needed to bill the insurance companies. Shondra ensures proper billing to ensure your claims are processed in a correct and timely manner.
Shondra works hard at patient care to include adjusting glasses and dispensing contact lenses and glasses. She is here and ready to answer any and all questions you may have before and after meeting with our doctors. She also maintains the schedule to get each of our valued patients in the correct spots and in a timely manner. We want to welcome Shondra to our Family!!!

sYD: optometric Tech/Lab Manager

Syd is a certified ParaOptometric Technician and is trained in most aspects of the office. She is also our lab manager and oversees everything ordered to ensure the quality meets our standard. She is also our frame buyer and meets with all the reps and hand pics all the frames and ensures our dispensary has a wide variety of frames to meet our amazing patients needs.
She is trained in specialty testing to help with any extra tests that may be needed to help before, during or after the examination.
She is happy to help in assisting you in picking out glasses and make recommendations that will work well with your prescription. She is trained in contact lens training and dispensing and works hard at ensuring all patients are trained and comfortable with their contact lenses prior to leaving the office.

Melissa: Optometric Technician

Melissa is one of the technicians who assists Dr. Humpherys and Dr. Palmer during the examinations. Melissa works hard at answering any questions you may have during or after the examination.
She also does the processing of all vision claims and works hard to ensure a timely turnaround of all glasses. We are so glad to welcome Melissa to our Family Vision Care Family and excited for all of our valued patients to get to know her as well!

Kiersten: Optometric Technician

Kiersten is normally the employee who will assist Dr. Humpherys during your examination and does a lot of the specialty testing to ensure that Dr. Humpherys has everything he needs during the examination. Kirsten works hard at answering any questions you may have during or after the examination. Kiersten is one of the employee's that you will find as you enter the office and is always eager to greet you and help answer any questions you may have.
She loves to assist in choosing your glasses and makes sure you know all of your options that will work well with your prescription.

Rylee: Optometric Technician

Rylee is one of our newest employees and is one of the technicians that seats our patients. Rylee works hand in hand with our doctors to ensure that you eye health is maintained and is here to answer any questions you may have.
Rylee also works in our in house laboratory and helps check in all eyeglasses and make sure we are only dispensing the materials that meet our standards. We are so glad to have Rylee as part of our family and we are so excited for you to meet her!!!

Mikayla: Optometric Technician

Mikayala is our newest employee and helps working up and pretesting all of our patients. Mikayala is trained in specialty testing and works hand in hand with our doctors to help with any special testing that may need to be done after your eye exam.
Mikayala loves to help patient pick out their glasses and is here to answer any questions you may have and is happy to help with anything you may need. We are so happy to have Mikayala as part of our family and we know that you will just love to work with her as well!!!