 Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, DPhil, is the director of the Vision Development Institute in The Vision Center at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). She earned her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and her doctorate in neurophysiology at the University of Oxford, England. She completed her residency at the Doheny Eye Institute/USC and a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Tarczy-Hornoch’s research interests focus on visual neuroscience and development, strabismus, amblyopia and the epidemiology of pediatric eye disease. She is investigating the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to study cortical binocular interactions. Her research into early intervention for childhood hypermetropia (far-sightedness) is funded by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Honors and Awards
- 2006 Saban Research Institute Best Poster Award
- 2001 Resident Research Award
- 1993 Overseas Research Student Award, UK
- 1993 Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship Award
- 1991 Gladys Richardson-Evans Scholarship
- 1990 St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford - Nuffield Science Prize
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