Kelly A. Hutcheson, MD

Kelly Hutcheson, MD is the Director of Ophthalmology for Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), responsible for the continued growth and development of the Ophthalmology programs at Westchester Medical Center (WMC), Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, and MidHudson Regional Hospital. Dr. Hutcheson also serves as Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at New York Medical College (NYMC). At WMC, she presides over a highly qualified group of subspecialists who have transformed Westchester Medical Center into a high-technology referral center for Ophthalmology.

Prior to joining WMCHealth, Dr. Hutcheson served as the Chief of Ophthalmology at Sidra Medical Center, a state-of-the-art academic medical center in the Middle East. She also worked in the public health care system in Qatar.

Dr. Hutcheson spent 14 years at George Washington University School of Medicine and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC where she was Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Fellowship Research Program. During this time while running a busy clinical and surgical practice in a tertiary care setting and academic medical center, Dr. Hutcheson and colleagues participated in the training of over 40 fellows and over a hundred ophthalmology residents and medical students.

Previously, Dr. Hutcheson worked at University of Maryland’s School of Medicine, where she was elected the Faculty Teacher of the Year. Dr. Hutcheson served as the co-director for the residency program and the ophthalmology medical student

education. During this time, she held several grants and worked in a benchtop laboratory doing genetic analyses on patients with retinopathy of prematurity and in an electrophysiology laboratory doing multifocal electroretinogram studies.

Dr. Hutcheson has published or been a contributing author for over 40 peer-reviewed academic publications and has participated in a number of clinical trials. She served as the section editor for a major ophthalmology journal for seven years. Additionally, she has presented numerous talks and posters at the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and other meetings. She has been an invited guest professor nationally and internationally. She was a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Long Range Planning Committee, her specialty society Legislative and Research Committees, and numerous institutional committees.