Physician

Dr. O’Keefe received her MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2010. She completed a residency in Ophthalmology at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Doheny Eye Institute, followed by Fellowship training in Medical Retina and Uveitis at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Doheny Eye Institute.
She worked at Emory University for 10 years where her research interests included infectious and auto-immune diseases of the eye, AMD, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal imaging modalities. She served in resident education and was the fellowship director for Medical Retina and Uveitis and led the Uveitis and Retinal Vasculitis section.

She is a fellow of, and has received an Achievement Award from, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and serves as the uveitis section editor for EyeWiki. She previously served on the board of the American Uveitis Society (AUS). She has been an invited speaker at regional, national, and international conferences.

Dr. O’Keefe’s peer-reviewed articles have been published in a number of leading journals, including Ophthalmology, Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, Survey of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging Retina, British Journal of Ophthalmology, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, and Annals of Surgical Oncology.