Diane Whitaker

Dr. Diane Whitaker, O.D., is the Division Chief of Vision Rehabilitation and Performance at Duke University Eye Center, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke School of Medicine, Clinical Program Director, Duke Sports Vision Center. Her past experience includes specialty low vision training at the Lighthouse for the Blind in Houston, Texas and providing vision rehabilitation services at the UNC Department of Ophthalmology from 2001-2006. In 2015 she was named an Innovator and one of the Most Influential Women in Optical. In 2017, she received the InSightful Visionary BVI Champion Award and served as the Medical Chair for the Foundation for Fighting Blindness Triangle Vision walk which successfully raised over $120,000 to fund research to prevent blindness.