Kathryn B. Freidl, M.D., is a Board-Certified ophthalmologist specializing in cataract and glaucoma surgery. She completed a medical and surgical fellowship in glaucoma at the prestigious Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia, the largest glaucoma diagnosis and treatment center in the country. Since then, she has been a surgeon at Florida Eye Specialists.

On dual academic and research scholarships, Dr. Freidl attended the Schreyer’s Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in biology and a minor in English. She completed and published an honors thesis focused on nutrition and neurodegenerative processes. In medical school at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College), she was awarded another research scholarship for her work with neurotransmitters and the immune system. During her residency at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY she trained in the medical and surgical management of cataracts, cornea and external disease, glaucoma, retinal pathology, uveitis, neuro-ophthalmic conditions, and other diseases of the eye.

Dr. Freidl is one of the first trained minimally invasive glaucoma surgeons in Jacksonville, as well as one of the first surgeons in the city to apply the technique of laser cataract surgery. Compassionate, patient-centered care is very important to Dr. Freidl. Newer, modern treatments and devices are less invasive than traditional glaucoma and cataract surgery, which afford patients surgery with less risk, shorter operating times, and more rapid recovery.