MARGARET E. PHILLIPS, M.D.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, Dr. Phillips is a graduate of Spring Hill College where she graduated summa cum laude in biology. She received her medical degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where she was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. After her internship at the Physicians Medical Center Carraway in Birmingham, Alabama, she completed her ophthalmology residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Phillips completed a fellowship, accredited by the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, at UT Hamilton Eye Institute in Memphis, Tennessee and Vanderbilt Eye Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. Before relocating to Hattiesburg, Dr. Phillips was in practice in Houston, Texas where she was the recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Texas in Houston.