John Davis, MD, FACS, FAAO

Dr. Davis spent his early years residing in Greensboro, where he attended GHS in the late "50's". Following this, he went on to UNC-Chapel Hill for an undergraduate degree in Political Science followed by his MD from the UNC School of Medicine. After an internship in surgery at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, he began his residency in Ophthalmology at the Eye Foundation Hospital there. After residency Dr. Davis moved to Atlanta, GA where he became President and C.E.O. of the Paces Ferry Eye Clinic, PC. While in Atlanta, Dr. Davis participated in teaching ophthalmology residents being named Adjunct Clinical Associate Instructor of Ophthalmology at Emory University School of Medicine. He also served as Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at West Paces Ferry Hospital from 1974 to 1991 and was elected Chairman of the Department of Surgery in 1984 and again in 1985. He was selected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the hospital in 1988 and elected Chairman in 1991.

Dr. Davis also served as a volunteer in many community service organizations, including Chairman of the Georgia Society for the Prevention of Blindness and the Lupus Foundation. He also served as a Board Member of the Atlanta Juvenile Diabetes Association and Special Peer Review Committee of the Greater Atlanta Medical Society.

In 1991 Dr. Davis accepted a position with a large multi-national corporation in the Middle East helping to develop the Ophthalmology service in their 550 doctor medical subsidiary and to train other physicians and medical students. Upon returning to the United States, Dr. Davis joined Digby Eye Associates in 2002. He has continued to teach whenever possible being named Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine helping train resident physicians in Family Practice and Internal Medicine as part of the Moses Cone-UNC affiliated residency programs.

Dr. Davis is a Board certified Ophthalmologist and a fellow in the American Academy of Ophthalmology and American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Davis' greatest joys are being with his two children as much as possible, along with watching his two grandchildren grow up. His hobbies include photography, skiing, scuba diving and tinkering with computers.