Academy Eye Associates: Chapel Hill, NC - Welcome! Academy Eye Associates, an independent private practice in optometry, located in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is committed to providing you and your family with the most complete and thorough eye care possible. We pride ourselves on our modern offices and warm caring atmosphere. We provide professional optometric eye care, including eye exams, eyeglasses, contact lenses, consultation for LASIK and other refractive surgery, and specialty vision care for young children and the visually impaired. Using state of the art equipment and highly trained professional staff, we offer the highest level of vision and eye care services available in the Triangle. We enjoy referrals for our specialty care from the entire region and have many patients who visit us from as far away as the West Coast, Europe and beyond.