Kathy Whitfield, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a Bachelor of Science in biology at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. She earned her medical doctorate at the University of South Dakota, her home state. Her residency in Ophthalmology was at the University of Colorado in Denver, CO. She completed fellowship training in Pediatric Ophthalmology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She and her husband enjoy keeping up with their three teenage children. They look forward to seeing all the beautiful areas of North Carolina.         Kathy Whitfield, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a Bachelor of Science in biology at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. She earned her medical doctorate at the University of South Dakota, her home state. Her residency in Ophthalmology was at the University of Colorado in Denver, CO. She completed fellowship training in Pediatric Ophthalmology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She and her husband enjoy keeping up with their three teenage children. They look forward to seeing all the beautiful areas of North Carolina.        

Dr Whitfield's specialties include children's eye care, pediatric and adult strabismus (misalignment of the eyes), congenital disorders of the nasolacrimal duct, amblyopia (lazy eye), ocular motility disorders, and pediatric uveitis.