Kinga Tibold

Kinga Michelle Tibold, MD, eye physician with Southern Maryland Ophthalmology, has served citizens of the surrounding area for the past 13 years. Dr. Tibold provides general ophthalmic services at two locations, the Pembroke Square office in Waldorf, and another she helped to design and open for the practice in 2001, the Leonardtown office. In 2010, Dr. Kinga Tibold also founded Bella Vision LLC for the purpose of providing medical services in the study of ophthalmology and the management of a practice.

Before moving to Maryland and joining Southern Maryland Ophthalmology in 1998, Dr. Kinga Tibold served as an ophthalmologist for Brooklyn Medical Group, P.C., and The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Tibold had completed her residency at Brookdale shortly before. She advised students there after she had completed her residency, she also fulfilled the duties of Staff Ophthalmologist at nearby Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, which has a professional affiliation with the Weill Cornell Medical College, from 1995 to 1996.

Dr. Kinga Tibold studied biology at Duke University, and she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in that discipline in 1985. A postgraduate pathology student at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, part of the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY) for two years, she pursued her medical degree at the same institution’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. While in medical school, Dr. Kinga Tibold received a Dean’s Letter of Commendation for Academic Excellence and achieved election to the James A. Gibson Society for her performance in gross anatomy, neuroanatomy, embryology, and histology. SUNY Buffalo awarded Dr. Kinga Tibold an MD magna cum laude for outstanding scholarship. Aside from her internship at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and ophthalmology residency at Brookdale, which included training at a Long Island College Hospital clinic in ocular oncology and in an ophthalmic pathology course Georgetown University Medical Center sponsored by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.