Dr. Frank W. Bowden, III, founded Bowden Eye & Associates in 2001, focusing the practice on comprehensive eye care; custom cataract surgery; refractive and lasik; glaucoma surgery and laser therapy; treatment of dry eye and other ocular surface disorders; corneal transplantation; and corneal and external diseases.  Bowden Eye & Associates is a sought-after destination by patients from all over the country for Dry Eye Disease treatment.

Dr. Frank W. Bowden, III, was selected for one of the most competitive ophthalmology fellowships in the world – the cornea and external disease fellowship at the renowned Wills Eye Hospital.

Dr. Frank W. Bowden, III, was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, and to this day is a devout Tennessee Volunteers fan. After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he was Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Frank W. Bowden, III, earned his MD in 1979 from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and was the class valedictorian.

His post-graduate training included an internship and an ophthalmology residency at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, California. He then earned a prestigious fellowship in corneal and external diseases at the internationally recognized Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.