Dr. Hilary Cox, OD was raised in a small, southwest Kansas town. In 2008, she graduated summa cum laude from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Biology and minoring in Chemistry and Physics. In 2012, Dr. Cox graduated with honors from Southern College Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, completing externships studying ocular disease and specialty contact lenses at Malcolm Randall VA in Gainesville, Florida, and in primary care here in Wilmington. Before coming to Wilmington Eye, Dr. Cox spent five years in private practice in Swansboro, North Carolina.