Doctors & Staff
Meet the experienced and friendly doctors and staff who make Busby Family Eye Care a proud provider of vision care products and services in Bergenfield.
Alan Busby O.D., M.S.
Dr. Alan Busby went to Wesleyan University as an undergraduate, and he graduated from SUNY Optometry in Manhattan in 2001 and also received a Masters Degree in Vision Science. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and focused in particular in the causes of nearsightedness. After graduation, we received a five-year K08 Research Grant from the National Institute of Health to study the causes of myopia in 2002. He published and presented multiple research projects related to myopia, and worked with one of the world’s most preeminent myopia researchers, Josh Wallman from the City College of New York. Dr. Busby was involved in both animal and human research, and continues to use this knowledge to help his patients today. He received a second Masters Degree in Neuroscience from the City College of New York in 2008. Dr. Busby left the research community after 2008 and began to work in a variety of clinical settings in both New York and New Jersey. Dr. Busby is specialized in Myopia Control. He has experience with pediatrics, but has extensive experience with the elderly with over eight years experience as an eye physician consultant in nursing homes. Dr. Busby has lived in Bergenfield since 2004 and has had his practice there with his wife since 2015.
Carolyn Busby O.D.
Dr. Carolyn Busby graduated from SUNY Optometry in Manhattan in 2001. She is Chief of Contact Lens at Harlem Hospital, and works in the Pediatric Clinic, Glaucoma Clinic as well as the Retina clinic at Harlem Hospital. Dr. Busby was born in Toronto, Canada, and has a double honors Bachelors of Science degree in Biology and Psychology from McMasters University. She spent a year in research in neurobiology, and published a paper in Nature on Growth Hormone and Effects in Memory in Mice in 1997. Dr. Carolyn Busby has lived in Bergenfield since 2004 and has enjoyed working in the practice with her husband, Dr. Alan Busby.