Kate Peacock, the recently crowned Miss North Carolina, knows all too well about living with eye disease. She was born with coloboma in her right eye, which is a hole in one of the structures of the eye and the eye stops growing during fetal development.
Kate is completely blind in her right eye. A cataract formed on her eye as an infant and her parents brought her to Duke Eye Center, where she became a patient of Edward Buckley, MD. Surgery was performed to remove the cataract and tighten the muscles around the eye to prevent it from turning inward. An additional surgery was performed several years later to tighten the muscles around the eye; however, that is likely the last surgery she will ever need.
Kate chose Duke Eye Center Pediatric Service as her platform for Miss North Carolina and for Miss America because of her experience as a patient and Duke Eye Center and because she never let that hold her back from her dreams.
Kate is on a mission to share her story and inspire pediatric patients and families at Duke Eye Center and beyond that anything is possible even with eye disease.
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