Welcome to The Vision Development Institute
The Vision Development Institute applies functional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and other cutting-edge technologies
in the study of vision disorders that typically arise in the
first year of life and impact learning. Our physician-scientists
are committed to identifying which interventions are most
effective at different stages of a child’s development.









Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch,
MD, DPhil, directs the Vision Development Institute in the Vision
Center at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, and is assistant professor
of clinical ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of the
University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Tarczy-Hornoch 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.