Keith Walter, MD, received his medical degree from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1991. He served an internship in internal medicine at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, beginning in 1992. He performed his ophthalmology residency and cornea fellowship at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in 1995 and 1996, respectively. He joined the Wake Forest Baptist Health Eye Center and department of ophthalmology in 1996 and was promoted to full professor in 2014.