Dr. Rebecca Dale

Dr. Dale was born in Minneapolis, MN, and raised in Mukilteo, WA. She graduated from Mariner High School and then graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts in biology from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. She earned her M.D. at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she was elected to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. Becca joined the US Navy in medical school and then did her internship at Naval Medical Center San Diego. She then served as General Medical Officer, first with the Marines in Okinawa, Japan. From Okinawa, she was deployed on a humanitarian mission in Southeast Asia. While assisting Navy ophthalmologists in Indonesia, she discovered her love for the specialty of ophthalmology. Before her specialty training, she completed her military service as a general practitioner at Branch Medical Clinic at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona. Dr. Dale left the Navy in 2004 and did her Ophthalmology training at Casey Eye Institute, a part of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR. She then worked for two years in private practice in Mount Vernon, Washington before founding Snoqualmie Falls Ophthalmology in 2009.