Assistant Professor Of Ophthalmology

Education

Optometry School
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry

Background

William Rafferty, OD, serves as the Director of Optometric Services at the Duke Eye Center where he provides patient care and has a specific interest in external disease, allergic eye disease, and tearfilm disorders, particularly dry eye patients. He also conducts clinics that help coordinate the care of patients with autoimmune diseases that affect the ocular surface including Sjogren’s syndrome. He has a great deal of experience in the pre-operative and post-operative care of cataract and refractive surgery patients. Rafferty is co-investigator on a National Eye Institute grant studying methods of improving eye care in patients with diabetes.