Kelliann Dignam

Dr. Kelliann Dignam graduated from SUNY College of Optometry in 1995.  She then completed a Residency in Ocular Disease at the Baltimore VA Medical Center, after which she accepted a faculty appointment at SUNY College of Optometry.  She was a clinical instructor in the Primary Care Clinic at the college, and the Acting Chief of Optometry at The Segundo Ruiz Belvis Neighborhood Family Care Center.  She also served as an attending optometrist on a part-time basis at the Brooklyn VA Medical Center. 

Dr. Dignam returned to Baltimore and to the VAMHCS in 1997, where she has continued to serve as an Attending Optometrist at both the Baltimore and Loch Raven VA Medical Centers.

She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and has served on the Academy’s Fellowship Admittance Committee.  She has also served on the Maryland Board of Optometry’s Quality Enhancement and Improvement Committee and The Macular Degeneration Advisory Committee of Baltimore. She is a member of the Optometric Glaucoma Society and the VAMHCS Patient and Family Centered Care Steering Committee. 

Dr. Dignam has lectured both locally and nationally on various ocular disease topics, and has contributed publications to peer reviewed optometric journals, as well as glaucoma and ocular pharmacology text books.