Jane Liao, OD- Focus Optical

Dr. Liao is my favorite optometrist! She works at Focus Optical, and I like her style during the visit. She’s efficient, without being in a rush. She’s also very personable and will answer any questions you have about eye care or the eye exam. Thanks to her great care, I felt comfortable purchasing a pair of glasses too, even though I’d initially scheduled for just an eye exam and contact lens prescription. You’re in good hands with Dr. Jane Liao.

I found the name Dr. Jane Liao, Optometrist on the web but only barely associated her with Focus Optical at Pacific East Mall. So last weekend I came by to check out the possibilities of getting a new optometrist. So this review focuses on my appointment for today in which I met the wonderful and kind Dr. Jane Liao. I liked her very much. She’s a Taiwanese lady that grew up in Brazil and somehow graduated from U.C. Berkeley’s school of optometry. Dr. Jane strikes me as a very brilliant woman and also very cool.
I needed to update my contact lenses and also update my optometrist since I now own a home in Albany next to the Pacific East Mall where Dr. Jane can be found at least once per week, generally on Saturdays. I have a follow up appointment for next Saturday. She gave me the latest technology in contacts, the Acuvue Oasis style. So my one paid appointment gets me a free set of contacts with a free follow up appointment next Saturday. I gave her $ 96 for the entire work up with two prescriptions: one for glasses and one for contacts. Upon careful examination, Dr. Jane determined that I have normal pressure in both eyes with some slight clouding of the left lens. Not too bad for a mid-​60s client. My brother by this time had cataracts in both eyes. I apparently have worn sunglasses much more often and have a perfectly clear right lens, and a left lens that can still be resolved to ²⁰⁄₃₀. My brother was so happy with his cataract surgery, but I’ll not be following that pathway for a little while yet.
Dr. Jane is the mom of two small children and lives near San Jose. Once they are both in school, I’ll likely have more appointment options as she’ll visit this office more than once per week. For the time being, I’m very happy to have her within walking distance of my Albany Hill home on Saturdays. Thank goodness she’s practicing so very close to me.
For people who want to do things in Pacific East Mall on a Saturday afternoon, you must have patience in order to park in the lot. I recommend parking on the street just south of the Mall. Also don’t go to Central Avenue to get back on the route ⁸⁰⁄₅₈₀ freeway, or you will be in a line of 30 or 40 cars having to wait through many green light cycles. Instead drive south on Pierce Street to Buchanan. Take a right at the light and enter the route ⁸⁰⁄₅₈₀ freeway with no hassles. As a resident of this street right next to the Mall, I always come home by exiting on Central Avenue and turning right on Central, then right again on Pierce Street. I leave home to get on the freeway by going down Pierce to Buchanan and then right to the freeway entrance. Very smooth if you go in this clockwise manner. The counterclockwise pattern causes slow frustration. Word to the wise.