While we officially opened as Bishop Eye Associates in July of 2007, our founder, Trey Bishop, MD, has been practicing in the Hilton Head area for over 8 years now working at both Palmetto Eye Specialists and Bishop Eye Associates. During that time, he has concentrated on building his practice based on highly individualized patient care using the best technology available. This philosophy is the purpose and foundation of his new practice.

As a comprehensive Ophthalmologist, he sees patients for all of their every day eye care needs, and specifically is the Director of Cataract Care. If you have a cataract, rest assured you are in the best of hands as he has performed over 10,000 cataract surgeries, all of which are done with the most up to date procedures and lenses, to include the revolutionary cataract lens technology of the RESTOR and TORIC lenses which give a majority of patients independence from glasses for good.

Dr. Bishop earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Hendrix College, and he received his M.D. degree from the University Arkansas. From there, he completed his Ophthalmology Residency at the Storm Eye Institute at MUSC in Charleston, SC. Dr. Bishop is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

Dr. Johnson has been practicing with Dr. Bishop since August of 2005, both with Palmetto Eye Specialists, and currently with Bishop Eye Associates. He currently sees patients for all eye related problems, and is specifically in charge of our Dry Eye and Contact Lens care, including the Scleral Contact Lens used in advanced treatment of Dry Eye and corneal disease.

Dr. Johnson graduated from the College of Charleston with a Bachelors of Science. He then received his Doctorate from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, graduating cum laude. While working on his Doctorate, Dr. Johnson performed an externship at the Naval Hospital in Beaufort. Upon receiving his Doctor of Optometry, Dr. Johnson completed a residency in hospital-based primary care optometry at the Memphis VA Hospital. His residency included advanced training in the diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy.

Dr. Johnson also has participated in clinical research studies on the Heidelberg Retinal Topographer (an instrument used in glaucoma detection), multifocal choroiditis, and diabetic retinopathy (VA-based Accord study).

Dr. Johnson is certified through the National Board of Examiners in Optometry and the South Carolina Board of Examiners in Optometry. He is a member of the American Optometric Association, the Contact Lens Section of the AOA, the South Carolina Optometric Association, and is the founder and past president of the Low Country Optometric Society. Dr. Johnson has been recognized for providing outstanding volunteer health care to the low-income and impoverished patients of the Church Health Center, a faith-based health care center for the working poor in Memphis, Tennessee.

Dr. Drabik received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont. Following graduation she was hired by the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as a research assistant, where she co-authored and published work in the field of gastroenterology in several medical journals.

She then went on and received her Doctorate from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia, PA, where she graduated Cum Laude. While a student, she was inducted into the Beta Sigma Kappa Honor Society. She then completed externships at the Ophthalmology Department of the Lankenau Hospital and at the Pediatric Department of The Eye Institute located in the Philadelphia area. While at the Eye institute she was awarded the Thomas P. Lynch Award for Clinical Excellence. Shortly after graduation, Dr Drabik was selected by the Pennsylvania Optometric Society to be the representative voice of her graduating class, appearing before a special session of the Pennsylvania State Legislature addressing the passage of new eye care legislation in the state.

Dr Drabik spent many years practicing on the ophthalmic staff at the Lankenau Hospital and in the Low Vision Service of The Wills Eye Hospital, in Philadelphia. Her specialties included: geriatrics, low vision and vision rehabilitation, as well as primary and family eye care and contact lenses. She served on the Adjunct Faculty of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry training 4th year students and awarding
externships at the Lankenau Hospital.

She and her family then moved to Maryland where she helped start a new optometry practice in Centreville, Maryland before relocating again, to Massachusetts. While there, she worked in a large, multi-centered Ophthalmology practice with offices in Plymouth and Cape Cod, which specialized in cataracts, glaucoma and retinal eye care.

Dr Drabik moved with her husband, Bob, to Bluffton, following his retirement as a vice president at Zoll Medical, in 2007. She has a son, Jacob, who is in the Coast Guard stationed in Charlevoix, Lake Michigan, and a daughter, Madeleine, who is a sophomore at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, where she is majoring in historic preservation and architecture.