We live in a dynamic world that requires us to use our eyes together and rapidly change our focus to different distances to see clearly.

Babies are born with poor vision, which improves rapidly during the first year of life: they learn to use their eyes together as a team and focus accurately. While most babies develop a normal visual function that continues to improve throughout childhood, some develop conditions such as amblyopia (poor vision) or strabismus (eye misalignment). This is often related to high refractive error (e.g., far-sightedness), which also changes significantly during the first year of life.  

Visual function can also be negatively affected later in life; for example, following traumatic brain injury or concussion, or degenerative neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis, or Parkinson’s Disease.

Our Mission

Our laboratory’s mission is to study how the eye focusing and eye teaming systems interact with refractive error during infancy and early childhood. We also research how brain injuries (i.e. concussions) and neurological diseases affect visual function.

We study the visual system using sophisticated non-invasive methods that are baby- and child-friendly and conduct clinical trials aimed at improving treatment approaches for pediatric and binocular vision disorders.

You can learn more about our current studies here.  You can also contact us to participate in our studies or ask us any questions.

We are currently looking for babies (as young as 2 months of age), children, and adults with normal vision as well as those with amblyopia, strabismus, convergence insufficiency, or vision symptoms following concussion.

We are grateful for our generous sponsors

Our studies are generously funded by the National Institute of Health/National Eye Institute, Department of Defense, Research to Prevent Blindness, American Academy of Optometry, and the Stanford Maternal Child Health Research Institute.