Dr. Carolyn Lederman graduated from Brown University with a degree in biology. She received her medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed a medical internship at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. She trained in general Ophthalmology at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital where she was named Chief Resident in her final year. She completed a year of fellowship training in pediatric ophthalmology at the Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. in 1997. She then returned to New York to join her father in practice.

       Dr. Lederman is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. She is an Assistant Attending at the Edward. S. Harkness Eye Institute of Columbia University where she teaches and lectures. She is on the staff of White Plains Medical Center and Stamford Hospital. She is also a consultant at the Blythedale Children's Hospital. Dr. Lederman is a member of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, the Greater New York Society for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and the Ophthalmology section of the Westchester Medical Society.

       Dr. Lederman's current research involves treatment modalities of strabismus and children's visual problems. She also has a special interest in pediatric glaucoma and cataracts. She has participated in multiple teaching and surgical missions to Panama, Kenya and Morocco with the group "Healing The Children." She is the editor of the proceedings of the Costenbader Society.