A board-certified, fellowship-trained physician, Dr. Pikey received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He earned his medical degree from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, Mo. After an internal medicine internship at St. Louis University, he completed an ophthalmology residency at the UMKC School of Medicine/Eye Foundation of Kansas City, where he was elected chief resident by his faculty and peers. He received his specialty training in glaucoma from the prestigious Devers Eye Institute/Casey Eye Institute-Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore. While in Portland he served as clinical instructor of ophthalmology at the university.