EXECUTIVE
through VOSH (Volunteer Optometric Services To
Humanity) with her father changed her life. “We
went to Honduras and that stuck with me,” she
explained. “My dad would spend hours operating,
and I’d work in the dispensary, giving out glasses.”
She made her way to Butler University, where
she kicked around studying genetics and childhood
education, but when a sorority sister went into
optometry, it all clicked. “I realized I’d been
preparing for that my whole life,” she said.
As she focused on optometry, she also made
another fateful connection.
“Jessica and I met at Butler when several friends
piled into a minivan for a short trip,” laughed Dr.
Kristopher Pugh. “I got to know her then.” As they
dated, they discussed their medical studies and
naturally, Jessica talked a lot about her dad.
“We went to different cities for medical school,”
explained Kristopher, who had a goal of becoming
a hospitalist. “I was influenced by her dad, who is
really gregarious and fun to be around, and that
combo and a surgery rotation my 3rd year made
me decide to switch from medicine to surgery.”
The couple was married shortly after graduation
and moved to South Carolina for Kristopher’s
surgery residency. While they were there, they
welcomed their first two children. But, the tug of
returning home to Indiana always remained. In
2007, with other job prospects on the table, the
couple moved home.
“We had offers to consider and it didn’t take us
long to realize we had an opportunity you just can’t
recreate – both our families are in Indiana,” said
Kristopher. “Dr. Black is so well-known and has such
a great reputation that the chance to come back
here and learn from him, and for me to rev up as a
surgeon and Jessica as an eye doctor, was as good
as any fellowship or job that existed elsewhere.”
VISION AND GROWTH
“We didn’t come here thinking my dad was
on his way out,” said Jessica. “We’d love it if he’d
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