Dr. Kelly Barham, MD

Dr. Kelly L. Barham is a native of Greensboro, NC. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Minor in Art History, cum laude, from Wake Forest University in 1997. Deciding to go medical school late in her undergraduate years at Wake Forest, she finished her pre-medical education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Barham received her Doctor of Medicine from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 2003, graduating in the top of her class. She was honored as only one of four medical students from her graduating class to be elected into Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society as a junior medical student. Dr. Barham also received the "Excellence in Dermatology" award from the medical school as a senior medical student. After receiving her M.D. degree, Dr. Barham completed one year of internal medicine residency at the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, where she still lectures to physicians on medical dermatology and conducts seminars on biopsy techniques. Following her internal medicine internship, she then completed 3 years of dermatology residency at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

Dr. Barham has participated in basic science research at both Wake Forest University and UNC-Chapel Hill. She has published articles on acne therapy, cryosurgery, treatment of eczema, the science of itch, acrodermatitis enteropathica, co-authored a chapter on vasculitis in a prestigious dermatology textbook, and reviewed articles for publication for a dermatology journal.

Dr. Barham joined Davie Dermatology on August 1, 2007. She is Board Certified in Dermatology, a Diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, and a member of the American Medical Association, North Carolina Medical Society, Forsyth-Stokes-Davie County Medical Society, and the North Carolina Dermatology Association. Dr. Barham is married and has 2 sons.