Our Doctors

Dr. Roger Fitch has enjoyed practicing optometry in Peoria since 1976. Dr. Fitch attended Illinois State University and graduated from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee. After 10 years with Dr. Clarence Ward M.D., Dr. Fitch took over the practice of retiring optometrist Dr. Robert Russell. Dr. Fitch hopes to continue to practice for many more years, maintaining the friendships and trust that he’s developed with his patients.

Dr. Fitch has found optometry to be a fascinating, multi-faceted, and challenging profession. In addition to his general practice offices, since 1991, Dr. Fitch has enjoyed serving Central Illinois nursing homes and assisted living facilities with a mobile eye care clinic.

From 1995 to 2002, Dr. Fitch owned a contact lens manufacturing lab and made contacts for doctors around the state and his own patients. His years of experience in contact lens fitting enabled him to create his own lens design that has led to many happy contact lens wearers. Throughout his career, he has both studied and practiced behavioral optometry, which looks at the development of the visual system and how vision affects learning. To help improve academics for struggling kids and to help patients who have had a concussion or traumatic brain injury, Dr. Fitch has offered in-office vision therapy since 2003.

Fitch is a Fellow of the College of Syntonic Optometry. He is a member of the American Optometric Association, the Illinois Optometric Association, and the College of Optometrists in Vision Development.

Dr. Fitch and his wife Beth live in Peoria and have four married children. They attend Bethany Baptist Church. Dr. Fitch enjoys reading history, studying Christian apologetics, golfing when he can, artistic endeavors in various media, and time with his children and granddaughters.

Dr. Timothy Cundiff hails from East Peoria. He is a graduate of Peoria Notre Dame High School and Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. In 2008, he graduated from the Indiana University School of Optometry. Dr. Cundiff then returned home to Peoria and joined Dr. Roger Fitch in practice at Vision Care Center.

In 2013, he was elected President of the Illinois Valley Optometric Society, and in 2014, he was named Young Optometrist of the Year in the State of Illinois. Then, in 2015, he was elected as a Trustee for the Illinois Optometric Association. He currently holds the position of President Elect.

As the Chairman of the Young Professionals Organization of Greater Peoria, he served as the Chairman of the 2013 All-America City Campaign. He received the ultimate recognition of his efforts by being awarded the Key to the City by Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis at City Hall. In 2014, he received the Nova Award by the Creve Coeur Club of Peoria. In 2010, he was named on Peoria’s “40 Leaders under Forty.”

Dr. Cundiff serves on the Boards of Directors for both the Peoria Riverfront Museum and Wildlife Prairie Park. He is the President of the Central Illinois Chapter of the Indiana University Alumni Association. A collegiate athlete at Loras, he still plays baseball in the Peoria Sunday Morning League and is the President of the League—which celebrated its historic 100th Season in 2015.

An on-air personality for the auction and pledge drives, Dr. Cundiff volunteers annually with WTVP, Peoria’s Public Broadcasting Station. He also presents a series of lectures to various audiences: students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the business community. The series, both motivational and educational, focuses on the important connection of vision with reading and learning.

Dr. Cundiff is a member of St. Philomena Catholic Church. He enjoys spending time with family, friends, sports, and promoting our wonderful Greater Peoria region.

Dr. Suarez graduated from The Illinois College of Optometry in 1980. While there he was a Teaching Assistant in Geometric Optics and Optometry Labs as well as a Teaching Assistant in the Infant Clinic specializing in Infant and Pediatric Vision Care. He also completed rotations at the West Side VA in Chicago, The Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind in Low Vision as well as an externship in Dekalb, Illinois.
He also taught in the Optometry School Clinic in Chicago as a staff doctor for one year covering areas of Vision Therapy, Infant Vision Care, Contact Lens fitting as well as General Optometric Care.

Dr. Suarez has worked with Dr. Fitch for many years participating in mobile vision care going to facilities seeing nursing home residents as well as developmentally disabled people He also enjoys working in specialty Contact lens fitting performing Orthokeratology, Myopia Prevention and infant contact lens fitting. He also has performed Low Vision Care in specialized clinics as well as in general offices. He is a member of the Illinois Optometric Association as well as the American Optometric Association.

Dr. Suarez and his wife, Ann, live in Peoria with their daughter Gina living in Los Angeles. They are members of St. Mark Parish where Ann also teaches at the grade school. Dr. Suarez currently enjoys playing and organizing Chess for young and old, nature photography, and when time permits he has been playing Disc Golf.