Dr. Mary Milhous Varn grew up in Easley, SC, and attended Clemson University prior to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. She received her MD degree in 1990. Following this, she completed a pediatric internship and developmental pediatric mini fellowship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. She then did her ophthalmology residency and pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at the Storm Eye Institute at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. Following an initial job in pediatric ophthalmology in Knoxville, Tennessee, she moved to Spartanburg, where she has been in private practice since 1997.