Dr. Melanie Frogozo
Dr. Melanie Frogozo is an optometrist who is residency trained in the treatment and management of anterior segment disease through medically necessary contact and prosthetic lenses. Originally from Houston, she completed college at the University of Texas at Austin and optometry school at the University of Houston.
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After graduation in 2008, she practiced within a commercial optometry setting in Kansas City, MO and it was during this time she became interested in advancing her knowledge in eye disease and specialty contact lenses. In 2011, she made the decision to pursue a residency in cornea and contact lenses at the University of Houston where she also completed a rotation at the PROSE clinic at Alkek Eye Center at the Baylor College of Medicine. After residency, she took a faculty position with the prestigious University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences where she continued to develop her specialty. In 2013, she returned to Texas and joined Alamo Eye Care. ​
Dr. Frogozo provides routine eye care, fits contact lenses on both children and adults, and manages eye diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic eye exams, macular degeneration, and dry eye. She is the director of Myopia Management Clinic, The Contact Lens Institute of San Antonio, and The Dry Eye Center of San Antonio at Alamo Eye Care. Her expertise is managing very complex corneal and anterior segment cases with specialty rigid and soft gas permeable contact lenses such as keratoconus, keratoplasty, pediatric and adult aphakia, trauma, and graft versus host disease. She also enjoys fitting soft and hard bifocal contact lenses and contact lenses for orthokeratology. Her additional professional interests include nutrition and its role in systemic and ocular disease, treatment and management of blepharitis, and custom scleral lens fitting based on 3D imaging and molding.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and the Scleral Lens Education Society, and a member of the American Optometry Association, Texas Optometry Association, and the Ocular Nutrition Society. Additionally, she volunteers her time at Haven for Hope I Care San Antonio Clinic.
When she is not seeing patients, Dr. Frogozo enjoys spending time with her husband Jon, daughter Teal, and their two cats Ilsa and Mr. Big. She also enjoys practicing ashthanga yoga and ballet.
Dr. Melinda Rodriguez
Dr. Melinda Rodriguez is a licensed therapeutic optometrist and certified glaucoma specialist in Texas. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and earned her Doctorate of Optometry from the University of The Incarnate Word Rosenberg School of Optometry in San Antonio, Texas. During the course of her studies, Dr. Rodriguez participated in research focusing on Glaucoma, an eye disease that can cause permanent vision loss. She successfully completed her optometry training at McWethy Troop Medical Clinic at Fort Sam Houston, and Kozlovsky, Delay and Winter Eye Consultants, both in San Antonio.
Dr. Rodriguez offers professional vision services, including comprehensive eye exams, contact lens fittings, evaluation and treatment of eye diseases and eye infections, and works well with patients of all ages. She is fluent in English and Vietnamese.
Dr. Rodriguez is active in the community and is a member of American Optometric Association, and Texas Optometric Association.
She lives in San Antonio with her husband and their two daughters, Evelyn and Victoria.
