Our Team

Dr. Homestead is an optometric physician who has been practicing for 40 years. He graduated from Pacific University College of Optometry in 1980.

He served two years in the Indian Health Service in San Carlos, Arizona where he was district optometrist for the Apache tribe. He has practiced optometry in Seattle Washington, his hometown, since 1982. He and his wife Beverly decided to make the move to Eastern Washington, the Tri-Cities specifically because they love the culture, the weather and the people in the area.

Dr. Homestead believes vision is a precious gift from God, and he feels it is a privilege to care of such a priceless ability. Dr. Homestead is very much looking forward to meeting you, so you are invited to make an appointment for a routine or medical visit. He believes it is his joy to provide eye care for you and your family, while forming a lasting warm relationship. And by the way, Alan will listen to anyone with a good joke, if they are also willing to put up with one from him.

Dr. Piatt has lived in Eastern Washington for 23 years and has a vested interest in the community she serves. As a safety engineer, her father took the family abroad in her youth and Dr. Piatt has kept a spirit of adventure because of it. After returning from Austria, Dr. Piatt attended school in Benton City.

She left to attend Eastern Washington University near Spokane where she majored in Microbiology and minored in Chemistry. From there she attended Nova Southeastern University in Florida. She completed an externship program with emphasis in binocular vision at Tianjin Medical University’s Tianjin Eye Hospital, Peoples Republic of China. There she studied under Dr. Kanxing Zhao, a world renowned expert in strabismus, strabismus surgery and ophthalmic genetics. Dr. Piatt graduated from Nova in 2003 after which Dr. Quesnell invited her to join the practice.

Dr. Piatt took over the clinic in 2004 and has committed herself to providing the same high level of care that has been enjoyed by Dr. Quesnell’s patients for the past 34 years. Dr. Piatt believes in giving back to her community and is a contributor to numerous charities as well as providing care at a Nicaraguan refugee camp in Costa Rica. Dr. Piatt enjoys talking to new and expectant parents about vision care options for children, she has also spoken at senior centers regarding senior eye care.

Dr. Winkel is a Washington State native. She grew up near Spokane, and has lived in Kennewick for the past 25 years. She graduated from Pacific University and since graduating, she has practiced general optometry for 27 years, providing health evaluations, refractions, contact lens fittings, and sports specialty exams. She also administers low-vision evaluations at the Edith Bishel Center for the Visually Impaired.

Dr. Winkel has been an avid trap-shooter since the age of 10, with numerous state, regional, and national titles to her credit. She has earned a position on the Amateur Trapshooting Association, All-American Lady team for the last 15 years. This allows her to have a unique understanding of the needs of those involved in firearm sports. This experience provides her unique insight in understanding, and helping to accommodate, the unique vision needs of other sports and hobby enthusiasts.

Dr. Winkel has been married for 25 years to her husband Jim, and enjoys following the activities of her son Bradley, a student at Southridge High School.