Joanne Waeltermann, MD
Joanne Waeltermann, MD
Dr Joanne Waelterman is our Kids Eye Care Emeritus. She is now happily retired.
Dr. Waeltermann joined Kids Eye Care of Maryland in 2019. She founded her practice, Children’s Eye Care of Catonsville in 1986 and was our first physician to care for the premature infants at St. Agnes Hospital where Dr. Guretzky continues this care.
Dr. Waeltermann was frequently named a Baltimore Magazine Top Doctor and was a teaching faculty member of the University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology from 1985 to 2012 and consulting staff at GBMC.
Dr. Waeltermann was also involved in Med-Chi (the Maryland State Medical Society). In 2000, she served as the president of Baltimore County Medical Association.
Though she prefers treating humans, she was also a consultant to the National Aquarium in Baltimore for fish eye problems. She resides in Owings Mills with her husband and she is the proud mother of two adult sons.
In her spare time she does yoga and is an award-winning knitter. She resides in Owings Mills with her husband who is the “Buddy Rich” of the big band, Shades of Blue and the Percussionist of the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra. She has two sons, one is an engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and the other has recently graduated from Shepherd University in environmental sustainability.