Training and board certification
- Bachelor of Science in Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on the William R. Davie Scholarship (source).
- Medical degree with honors, University of Illinois College of Medicine (source).
- Ophthalmology residency, Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (source).
- ASOPRS-accredited Oculofacial Plastics fellowship, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania; served on Penn's clinical faculty before moving to Western North Carolina in 2013 (source).
- Board-certified ophthalmologist and ASOPRS-accredited oculoplastic surgeon (source).
- Site quotes her Michigan mentors as having called her the "best surgical trainee in over 15 years" (source).
- Named to Castle Connolly's Top Doctor list every year since 2019 and NC Business's Top Doctors list every year since 2020, per the site; invited speaker at the ASOPRS annual meeting, AAO Oculoplastics Subspecialty Day, and AACS annual meeting (source).
Eyelid surgery work
- Upper blepharoplasty. Lid-crease incision, often extended into the crow's feet; performs about 600 eyelid lifts a year; procedure takes about 45 minutes under local anesthesia (source).
- Lower blepharoplasty. Fat repositioned or removed; a subciliary skin incision is used when skin must be removed, or CO2 laser resurfacing is offered as an alternative to skin excision (source).
- Male blepharoplasty and male brow lift. Techniques adapted to preserve a heavier male lid and a lower, flatter, more laterally peaked male brow, with more conservative skin removal (source).
- Brow lift. Offers direct, pretrichial (hairline) and endoscopic approaches (source).
- Ptosis is treated as one of the causes of droopy eyelids addressed through upper blepharoplasty; the site has no separate ptosis-repair procedure page but does have a dedicated ptosis before-and-after gallery.
- Entropion repair. Incision under the lower lashes and at the outer corner; the slipped muscle is reattached and the outer-corner tendon tightened; a graft may be used for scar-related entropion (source).
- Ectropion repair. Suture tightening through a small outer-corner incision, with a skin graft added when a scar is causing the condition (source).
- Eyelid skin cancer reconstruction. Uses skin grafts (from the eyelids, near the ear, neck, or inner arm) or local flaps to restore function and cosmesis after excision of basal cell, squamous cell or melanoma lesions (source).
Galleries, confirmed loading with photographs: upper blepharoplasty, lower blepharoplasty, and ptosis surgery before-and-after pages (upper, lower, ptosis).
Other procedures
Eyelid lumps and bumps removal; facial paralysis treatment; eyelid stye treatment; non-surgical services including CO2 laser resurfacing, IPL, non-ablative fractional laser, neurotoxin, Sculptra, tear-trough and hyaluronic acid fillers, and hyaluronidase (source).
Insurance and cost
If loose or sagging upper-eyelid skin blocks vision, upper blepharoplasty may be covered by insurance; lower blepharoplasty is described as nearly always cosmetic and not covered (source). No specific prices are published; the practice offers Cherry third-party payment plans for cosmetic-only services (source).
Recovery: upper blepharoplasty swelling mostly fades within 2 weeks, residual swelling a few months, results last 5-10 years (upper); lower blepharoplasty time off work about 1 week, initial results at 2 weeks (lower); brow lift swelling/bruising fade in 2-3 weeks (source); entropion repair avoids strenuous activity until stitches are removed, eye makeup avoided 1-2 weeks (source).