Professional Experience

Jacqueline Theis, OD, FAAO is an optometrist with residency training in neuro-optometry, pediatrics and vision therapy, who treats patients of all ages with visual complaints and double vision due to development, brain injury and neurological disease. During her residency, Dr. Theis focused her training on evaluating and treating patients with visual problems due to traumatic brain injury, stroke, and other neurological diseases including multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, and Parkinson's disease as well as treating children with reading problems, refractive and strabismic amblyopia.  

After her residency, she continued her research and became an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Optometry, as well as the founding Chief of the UC Berkeley Sports Vision and Concussion Clinic- which provides clinical research and patient care in sports vision performance and optometric post-concussion management. Once the UC Berkeley Sports Vision Clinic was operational and self-sustaining, Dr. Theis continued her career by transitioning her services to Kaiser Permanente.  For the next five years, Dr Theis worked assiduously to improve quality of care for patients with post-concussion oculomotor dysfunction, double vision, and atypical visual complaints.  Using her previous experience she was able to integrate home-based concussion vision therapy and rehab in a fast-paced outpatient hospital setting.  She worked efficiently and cooperatively with a team of physicians including neurology, PMR, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and ophthalmology to pioneer post-concussive, multi-disciplinary active rehabilitation treatment in inpatient and outpatient settings for patients across Northern California. 

She is internationally recognized as a leader in her field for diagnosis and management of oculomotor dysfunction in concussion, as well as prismatic correction of acquired and developmental double vision.  Dr. Theis's mission is to provide a comprehensive neuro-optometric eye examination to help patient's understand their visual system, where their symptoms are stemming from, and provide functional, evidence-based optometric treatment options to enhance a patient's quality of life so they can get back to seeing and enjoying the things they love to do.  In addition to patient care, Dr. Theis also lectures internationally to optometrists and non-optometric healthcare providers in the field of neuro-optometry, concussion and oculomotor dysfunction, neurologic dry eye, photophobia, and pediatric vision problems, as well as consults healthcare and government systems on diagnosis and management of visual sequelae from brain injury and neurologic disease.  She actively participates in clinical research with multiple universities across the country, including a study in her clinic looking at the impact of endurance on the oculomotor system after concussion in adults in association with the New Jersey Institute of Technology.  For her dedication and work in neuro-optometry, Dr. Theis received the California Optometric Association's Young Optometrist of the Year Award in 2019, and the Virginia Optometric Association's Young Optometrist of the Year Award in 2022.