Our Practice in Colorado Springs

Providing general eye care, eye examinations for glasses, contact lenses, diabetes, cataracts, keratoconus, other eye disease detection and management.

After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree of Science, Neil McAllister, OD, completed his Doctor of Optometry training at Southern California College of Optometry in 1988. During his training he enjoyed practicing in various externships including two rotations at VAOC Veteran’s Eye Clinic in Los Angeles. He began his career by working in a full service ophthalmology clinic which gave him valuable experience with eye disease diagnosis and treatment. He also worked for two years in a pediatric ophthalmology clinic.

For the past thirty years he practiced in multi-doctor optometry practice settings in Colorado Springs providing services for difficult cases as well as regular patient care. Dr McAllister enjoys serving Veterans through the VA Community Care panel. He has a special interest in contact lens fitting, including advanced contact lens fitting for special cases such as 3D scleral lenses fit with the Eaglet Eye Corneal-Scleral Profilometer (One of only four machines in Colorado).

Dr. McAllister also specializes in eye disease detection and management using cutting edge instrumentation, and co-management of cataract, diabetes, lasik, and retinal disease with Colorado’s finest ophthalmologists.

Dr. McAllister believes it is necessary for a doctor to have advanced equipment to obtain advanced results and has equipped his office accordingly with onsite intraretinal optical coherence tomography, Optos wide field retinal scanning, corneal topography, wavefront mapping and other advanced diagnostic tools.

Dr. McAllister and his wife have four children and currently four grandchildren. He likes to spend his free time with his family, biking with his wife and enjoying the beauty of Colorado.

Dr. Waggoner joined Powers Eye Center in 2024. Although new to the Colorado Springs area, he is not new to the Mountain West. Dr. Waggoner lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he attended the University of Utah and earned his Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Biology. He continued his education at the University of Missouri St Louis College of Optometry and earned his Doctorate of Optometry in the spring of 2000. He completed internships in Ocular Disease, Contact Lenses, and Primary Care Optometry. Dr. Waggoner gained valuable training and an appreciation for our Nation’s Veterans as an intern at the American Lake VA in Lakewood, Washington.

After finishing training, Dr. Waggoner moved back to his home state of Washington and spent his first 20 years of practice in Olympia at a large medical and surgical Ophthalmology-Optometry practice. He thoroughly enjoys providing care for patients of all ages. He offers comprehensive eye care to young and old and everyone in between. His practice experience allows him to provide competent and thorough care in the areas of family eye care and ocular disease including dry eye, diabetes, glaucoma, cataract and post surgical care.

Dr. Waggoner comes to Colorado following moves from Washington state to Southern Utah and Massachusetts. Dr. Waggoner is excited to be here in the Springs. He looks forward to providing personalized and comprehensive eye care to the patients at Powers Eye Center. Dr. Waggoner and his wife Marla are excited to call Colorado Springs their new home. They have five children and a Bernese Mountain Dog named Bruno and two cats. Dr. Waggoner enjoys the outdoors and loves to play golf in his spare time.