Kyle J. Godfrey MD

Kyle J. Godfrey, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is a board-certified ophthalmologist specializing in oculofacial plastic surgery, a sub-specialty focused on plastic and reconstructive surgery of eyelids, orbit (eye socket), lacrimal (tear drainage) system, eyebrows, and face.

Dr. Godfrey completed a two-year fellowship sponsored by the prestigious American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). During this training, Dr. Godfrey gained broad clinical and surgical experience by treating patients at Weill Cornell Medical Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York University Langone Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital,Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Park Avenue plastic surgery practices. To gain further experience in orbital, lacrimal, and eyelid surgery he traveled to the world-renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, United Kingdom.

Dr. Godfrey is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine where he received the Ophthalmology Achievement Award for clinical, academic, and research excellence. His ophthalmology training was at the Shiley Eye Institute at the University of California San Diego, where he was selected to serve as Chief Resident. He is a Magna cum laude graduate of Westmont College, where he earned a B.S. in Chemistry with Major Honors distinction for his laboratory research on a novel pharmaceutical synthesis technique.