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Curriculum Vitae
Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine Format
Date Prepared:
14 April 2015
Name:
Kevin Edward Houston, OD, M.Sc.
Education
1998
2003
B.S.
O.D.
Zoology
Doctor of Optometry
Eastern Illinois University
Indiana University
Institution
Hudson Valley Veterans
Administration Hospital,
Montrose, NY
Institute for Sports Vision
and Ridgefield Family Eye
Care, Ridgefield CT.
Indiana University School
of Optometry Clinics,
Bloomington-IndianapolisGuanajuato Mexico
Optometry Rotations
Year
2002
Title
Optometry Intern
Specialty
Ocular Disease Rotation
2002
Optometry Intern
Vision Therapy and Primary Care
Rotation
2002-2003
Optometry Intern
Primary Care, Low Vision, Ocular
Disease, Pediatrics
Faculty Academic Appointments
01/07-07/11
Clinical Assistant
Professor
1/07-present Instructor
Optometry-Vision Rehabilitation
7/11-present Instructor in
Ophthalmology
3/13-present Investigator
Ophthalmology-Massachusetts
Eye and Ear Infirmary
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Ophthalmology
Indiana University School
of Optometry
Indiana University School
of Medicine
Harvard University School
of Medicine
Harvard University
Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions
7/07-7/11
Staff Optometrist
10/11-
Staff
3/12-
Staff Optometrist
Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation
Vision Rehabilitation
Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation
Other Professional Positions:
1
Rehabilitation Hospital of
Indiana
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Infirmary
Spaulding Rehabilitation
Hospital, Boston/Cape Cod
7/04-7/07
7/04-7/07
7/03-7/04
Optometrist (part-time)
Optometrist (part-time)
Optometrist
Gottlieb Vision Group, Stone Mountain GA
Tulman Eye Group, Duluth GA
Mitchell Optical, Mitchell IN
Major Administrative Leadership Positions
Local
None
Regional
None
National and International
2007-2011
Dean Appointed Member
2010
Steering Committee Chair
2011
Chair
2012
Immediate Past Chair
Association of Schools and Colleges of
Optometry (ASCO) Low Vision Educators
Special Interest Group
Association of Schools and Colleges of
Optometry (ASCO) Neuro-rehabilitation
Educators Special Interest Group (SIG)
Association of Schools and Colleges of
Optometry (ASCO) Neuro-rehabilitation
Educators Special Interest Group (SIG)
Association of Schools and Colleges of
Optometry (ASCO) Neuro-rehabilitation
Educators Special Interest Group (SIG)
Committee Service
Local
2014
2013
2013-2014
2008-2009
2008
2008
Distinguished Lecture Series Committee
Review Committee, AMD Fellowship
Program
Review Committee, Best Paper Contest
Program
Awards and Honors Committee
Faculty Development Committee
Clinical Operations Committee
SERI/MEEI
SERI/MEEI
SERI/MEEI
Indiana University School of Optometry
Indiana University School of Optometry
Indiana University School of Optometry
Regional: None
National and International
2012-
Member
2010present
2010
Member
Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology Low Vision Rehab Group
American Optometric Association Vision
Rehabilitation Section (AOA-VRS)
AOA-Vision Rehabilitation Section
Resource Manual Committee
Committee Member
Professional Societies
2
20062007-2011
2007-2011
2011-
American Academy of Optometry
2007Low Vision Rehabilitation Society of
Indiana
2007-2011
American Optometric Association
Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology
Grant Review Activities:
2013
AMD Fellowship Program
Fellow
Member
Member
Member
SERI/MEEI
Editorial Activities
Reviewer Optometry-The Journal of the American Optometric Association (former)
Other Editorial Roles: None
Honors and Prizes
2014
Minnie Turner Award
Minnie Flaura
Turner Foundation
For outstanding research in vision
impairment
2014
Member in Training
Poster Award Finalist
Association for
Research in Vision
and Ophthalmology
Poster Title: Biased Collision Judgments
in Patients with Left but not Right
Hemianopia
2011
Journalism AwardManuscript of the Year
Journal of
Behavioral
Optometry
Article: Houston, K. Measuring Visual
Midline Shift Syndrome and Disorders of
Spatial Localization: A Literature
Review and Report of a New Clinical
Protocol. J Behav Opt 21(4) 2010.
2006
Fellow
American Academy
of Optometry
Oral Exam and 5 case reports
2002
Excellence Award
Rigid Gas
Permeable Lens
Institute
Excellence in fitting and instruction with
gas permeable contact lenses
2000
Optometric Honor
Society
Beta Sigma Kappa
Optometric
Fraternity
Academic Achievement
1999
AFVA Scholarship
American
Foundation for
Vision Awareness
Academic achievement, financial need,
and resident of Indiana
1998
Excellence in Pre-
Warner-Hinz fund,
Academic achievement and financial need
3
medicine Award
Eastern Illinois
University
Report of Funded and Unfunded Projects
Funding Information
Current
20112015
Harvard Clinical Scientist Development Program
NIH K12EY016335
Trainee ($664,968 over 4 years)
Goals: Develop the skills needed to conduct independent clinical research
Past
20102013
Development of a Novel Computerized Perceptual-Motor Training Program to Improve
Adaptation to a Visual Field Expanding Device for Hemianopia
DoD DMRDP 090420
Co-Investigator
Goals: Develop a computerized perceptual-motor training software for use with visual
field expanding peripheral prism glasses for patients with hemianopia and hemineglect.
Current Unfunded Projects
2013
Restoring Vision After Hemianopia: fMRI Investigations of Adaptation Training
2013
Collision Judgments of Stroke Patients in a Virtual Reality Walking Environment
2014
Magnetic Levator and Orbicularis Prosthesis for Reanimation of the Blink
Report of Local Teaching and Training
Teaching of Students in Courses:
2012, 2013 Introduction to the Visual System
Post-Docs, RAs, and Medical Students
Schepens Eye Research Institute
1 hour lecture on Binocular Vision
Laboratory and Other Research Supervisory and Training Responsibilities:
2012-
Supervision and Training of Research
Assistants (4), SERI
10% Effort
Report of Regional, National and International Invited Teaching and
Presentations
4
Invited Presentations and Courses
No presentations below were sponsored by outside entities
Regional:
12/2/2014
10/28/2014
10/14/2014
7/24/2014
5/28/2014
3/18/2014
3/7/2014
9/12/2013
10/2/2013
1/17/2013
3/5/2012
8/15/2012
12/5/2012
Invited Speaker, K-pro Meeting, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston MA.
Title: Non-surgical Restoration of Eyelid Motility Using Neodymium Magnet Systems.
Invited Speaker SERIes Seminar, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA.
Title: Non-surgical Restoration of Eyelid Motility Using Neodymium Magnet Systems
Invited Speaker, Harvard Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding
Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA.
Title: Identifying Vision Problems After Brain Injury
Invited Speaker Residency Conference, New England College of Optometry, Boston MA.
Title: Ophthalmic Prisms in Neuro-Rehabilitation.
Invited Speaker, Kessler Foundation Stroke Rehabilitation Laboratory, West Orange, NJ
Title: Spatial Dysfunction, Spatial Neglect, and Prism Adaptation
Invited Speaker, Outpatient Therapy Inservice at Spaulding Rehab Hospital, Boston MA.
Title: Spaulding Vision Clinics.
Invited Speaker, Harvard Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Grand
Rounds. Title: Ophthalmic Prisms in Neuro-Rehabilitation.
Invited Speaker, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network, Marshfield, MA. Title: Vision
Rehabilitation.
Invited Speaker, Schepens Eye Research Institute SERIes Seminar. Title: Exploring the
Limits of Perceptual-Motor Adaptation in Hemianopes Treated with Peripheral Prisms.
Invited Speaker, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network Healthy Living Series. Title: Low
Vision Rehabilitation: The Latest Research and Technology.
Invited Speaker, Mass Eye and Ear Research Faculty Meeting. Title: Computerized
Perceptual Motor Training For Use With Visual Field Expanding Prisms.
Invited Speaker, Occupational Therapy Inservice at Spaulding Rehab Hospital, Boston
MA. Title: Binocular Vision Management and Treatment for the Inpatient Team.
Invited Speaker, New England College of Optometry Research Seminar Series. Title:
Computerized Perceptual Motor Training For Use With Visual Field Expanding Prisms.
National
11/15/2014
11/9/2014
9/13/2013
10/23/2012
9/21/2012
Invited Speaker Paper Presentation (abstract), American Academy of Optometry Annual
Meeting, Denver CO.
Title: Rightward Asymmetries in the Collision Judgments of Patients with Homonymous
Field Defects are Explained by Subclinical Left Hemispatial Neglect.
Invited Speaker, Braintree National NeuroRehabilitation Conference, Cambridge, MA.
Title: Vision Problems After Brain Injury.
Invited Speaker, Indiana University School of Optometry Reunion Weekend CE,
Bloomington, IN. Title: Neuro Grand Rounds.
Invited Speaker Paper Presentation (abstract), American Academy of Optometry Annual
Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. Title: Peripheral Prism Glasses for Hemianopia Improve Obstacle
Detection when Walking.
Invited Instructor, Envision National Low Vision Rehabilitation Conference, St. Louis,
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09/22/2011
09/21/2011
09/21/2011
09/21/2011
09/12/2009
10/23/2008
10/22/2008
MO. Title: Workshop on Binocular Vision and Vision Therapy for the Visually Impaired.
Invited Speaker, Envision National Low Vision Rehabilitation Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Title: Can I see well enough to get a smartphone?
Invited Speaker, Envision National Low Vision Rehabilitation Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Title: Evidence-Based Vision Assessment for Driving.
Invited Instructor, Envision National Low Vision Rehabilitation Conference, St. Louis,
MO. Title: Workshop on the Rehabilitation of Hemianopia.
Invited Instructor, Envision National Low Vision Rehabilitation Conference, St. Louis,
MO. Title: Workshop on Prism Adaptation for Left Hemispatial Neglect After Brain
Injury or Stroke.
Invited Speaker, Envision National Low Vision Rehabilitation and Research Conference,
San Antonio, TX. Title: Prism Adaptation for Left Hemispatial Neglect After Brain
Injury or Stroke.
Invited Speaker, Low Vision Section Symposium of the American Academy of Optometry
National Meeting, Anaheim, CA.
Invited Speaker, American Academy of Optometry National Meeting, Anaheim, CA.
Prism Adaptation for Left Hemispatial Neglect.
International: None
2014
2013
Poster Presentation (abstract), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL. Title: Biased Collision Judgments in People with Left but
not Right Homonymous Field Defects.
Poster Presentation (abstract), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Title: Is Perceptual Motor Adaptation in Hemianopes
Wearing Peripheral Prisms Possible?
Report of Clinical Activities and Innovations
Current Licensure and Certification
January 31, 2013
Massachusetts TPA certified Optometrist, #4864
Practice Activities
2015- Vision Rehabilitation Service
2012- Inpatient and Outpatient
Vision Rehabilitation
3/2012- Neuro-Ophthalmology Clinic
7/2012
Mass Eye and Ear
Spaulding Rehabilitation
Hospital Boston and Cape
Cod
Mass Eye and Ear
3 sessions (½ day) per week
2 Sessions per week
Not currently active
Clinical Innovations
None
Report of Technological and Other Scientific Innovations
2010 - 2012
Visuomotor Task Board. Clinical tool to aid in the quantification of eye-hand
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2012 - current
2014 - current
2014 - current
coordination measurement. In use clinically and for research in the Boston area,
and clinically at my alma matter, Indiana University School of Optometry. Not
patentable.
Magnetic Levator and Orbicularis Prostheses For Reanimation of the Blink.
Prototype devices under development used in an IRB approved human subjects
study at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston and Cape Cod.
Smartphone app for strabismus measurement. Will be described in a poster
presentation at the 2015 ARVO.
Stick-on rigid 57Δ peripheral prisms; described in print (electronic) submitted to
MEE IP office. Released as not patentable. Still under development and planned
for commercialization.
Report of Education of Patients and Service to the Community
No activities below were sponsored by outside entities
Activities
20132011
Healthy Living Lecture Series
Glasses for Children with Albinism in
Tanzania
Health Fair
Special Olympics “opening eyes”
School Vision Screenings
IU Health Fair
Mexico Free Clinic Mission Trip
2009
2005-2006
2002
2002
2002
2003
Club Rotaria vision Screening, Cialo
Mexico
Spaulding Rehab, Cape Cod
Under the Same Sun inc and the Rotary
Club of Fishers Indiana
Eye Care Community Outreach and IUPUI
Special Olympics-Atlanta Georgia
Headstart (Indiana)
Indiana University
Volunteer Optometric Services for
Humanity (VOSH)
Rotary Club of Cilao
Educational Material for Patients and the Lay Community
No educational materials below were sponsored by outside entities.
Books, monographs, articles and presentations in other media:
2006
Atlanta Interfaith
Broadcasters
TV show: Health
and the Eye
NA
Educational material or curricula developed for non-professional students: None
Patient educational material
Recognition
2002
Recogimiento de servicio
Desarrollo Integral de La Familia (Mexico)
7
2010
Certificate of Recognition
Eye Care Community Outreach
Report of Scholarship
Publications
Peer reviewed publications in print or other media
1. Houston K. Bioptic Update. Indiana Journal of Optometry. Spring 2009 (12)1 2-6.
2. Houston, K. Measuring Visual Midline Shift Syndrome and Disorders of Spatial Localization: A
Literature Review and Report of a New Clinical Protocol. J Behav Opt 21(4) 2010.
3. Houston, K. Vision Care of the Brain-Injured Patient. Review of Optometry 150(3) 2013.
4. Goldstein JE, Jackson ML, Fox SM, Deremeik JT, Massof RW; Low Vision Research Network Study
Group. Clinically Meaningful Rehabilitation Outcomes of Low Vision Patients Served by Outpatient
Clinical Centers. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2015 Apr 9. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.0693. [Epub ahead
of print]
5. Goldstein JE, Chun MW, Fletcher DC, Deremeik JT, Massof RW; Low Vision Research Network Study
Group. Visual ability of patients seeking outpatient low vision services in the United States. JAMA
Ophthalmol. 2014 Oct;132(10):1169-77. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2014.1747.
6. Brown JC, Goldstein JE, Chan TL, Massof R, Ramulu P; Low Vision Research Network Study Group.
Characterizing functional complaints in patients seeking outpatient low-vision services in the United States.
Ophthalmology. 2014 Aug;121(8):1655-62.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2014.02.030. Epub 2014 Apr 24.
7. Houston KE, Tomasi M, Yoon M, Paschalis E. A prototype external magnetic eyelid device
for blepharoptosis. Tran Vis Sci Tech. 2014;3(6):9,
http://tvstjournal.org/doi/full/10.1167/tvst.3.6.9, doi:10.1167/tvst.3.6.9
Non-peer reviewed scientific or medical publications/materials in print or other media
1. Houston K, Perras B, Stumpf C. Minimum Acuity Demands for Smartphone Use. Visibility 2010;
5(1)10-13.
Professional educational materials or reports, in print or other media
Low Vision Manual-Indianapolis
Online Continuing Education
Course
Vision Rehabilitation Procedures
Manual-Spaulding Rehab
Prism Adaptation Training Video
Maxi Printing Services, Indiana
University
Evidence Based Visual
Assessment for Driving
Author: Kevin Houston, OD
COPE #26779-NO (Exp
8/1/2012)
Electronic PDF document
.wmv format
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Optometry Students
Optometry and Ophthalmology
Residents, Optometrists,
Ophthalmologists, Driving
Rehabilitation Specialists
(CDRS), Occupational Therapists
Optometry and Ophthalmology
Residents, Optometrists,
Ophthalmologists, Occupational
Therapists
Select Optometrists by personal
request
Clinical Guidelines and Reports
1. Clinical Protocols: Rehab of Hemianopia, Prism Adaptation for Hemispatial Neglect. Protocols used
in Indiana University Clinics, and taught (workshop course) at National Envision Meeting.
2. Clinical Protocols- Hospital Approved Clinical Vision Rehab Protocols (Spaulding Rehab Hospital):
Rehab of Hemianopia, Hemispatial Neglect, and Strabismus. Published in Houston, K.E. (2013), Vision
Care for the Brain-Injured Patient. Review of Optometry, 150 (3), 73-83.
3. American Optometric Association Vision Rehabilitation Section Resource Guide for Brain Injury
Visual Rehabilitation. Used by the US VAMC Optometry service and available online to members of the
AOA-VRS at www.aoa.org
Thesis:
Collision Judgments of Patients with Homonymous Field Defects. Defended 19 June, 2014, New
England College of Optometry.
Abstracts, Poster Presentations and Exhibits Presented at Professional Meetings
1. Kollbaum E, Houston K. (2007) Visual demands for cell phone use. Poster presentation, American
Academy of Optometry National Meeting.
2. Houston K, Depeau M. (2010) Optic Ataxia with Hemispatial Neglect responds to practice on a
visuomotor task. Poster Presentation, American Academy of Optometry National Meeting.
3. Houston KE, Churchill JH, Luo G, Woods RL, Peli E, Bowers AR. Peripheral prism glasses for
hemianopia improve obstacle detection during virtual walking (abstract). Optom Vis Sci
2012;89:E-abstract 120979.
4. Houston KE, Jeffrey Churchill, Jean Paul Wiegand, Eli Peli, Gang Luo, Robert Goldstein, Russell
L. Woods, Alex R Bowers. Is perceptual-motor adaptation in hemianopes wearing peripheral
prisms possible? Pilot study preliminary results (abstract). IOVS 2013; 2759.
5. Tomasi M, Churchill J, Wiegand JP, Houston KE, Peli E, Bowers AR, Luo G. Peripheral prisms
increase blindside eye and head scanning movements during outdoor walking in hemianopes:
preliminary results (abstract). IOVS 2013; 2758.
6. Houston KE, Liu R, Sheldon S, Peli E, Goldstein, RB, Luo G, Woods RL, Bowers AR. Biased
Collision Judgments by People with Left but not Right Hemianopia (abstract). IOVS 2014; 4130.
7. Houston KE, Luo G, Woods R, Peli E, Bowers AR. Rightward Asymmetries in the Collision
Judgments of Patients with Homonymous Field Defects are Explained by Subclinical Left
Hemispatial Neglect. Optom Vis Sci 2014;90:E-abstract 140P17
8. Houston KE, Peli E, Bowers AR. Collision Judgments of People with Left Hemispatial
Neglect in a Walking Simulator Compared to Lane Position in a Driving Simulator. Optom Vis
Sci 2014;90:E-abstract 145080
9. Houston KE, Peli E, Goldstein RB, Bowers AR. Visual field expanding peripheral prisms
improve detection of roadside pedestrians in patients with hemianopia. Archives of Physical
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Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 95, Issue 10, e-Abstract 38.
Narrative Report (limit to 500 words)
Kevin Houston is a Doctor of Optometry and scholar in the Harvard Vision Clinician Scientist
Development Program at Mass Eye and Ear. He is recognized by his peers as an expert in brain-injury
vision rehabilitation and is frequently asked to lecture both locally and nationally.
His area of excellence is investigation, where he currently focuses on the development and testing of
optical devices and therapies for patients with hemianopia and hemispatial neglect, two common and
debilitating visual consequences of brain injury. Recent work funded by the NIH and DoD used a virtual
reality walking simulator to uncover visual errors in collision judgments in right but not left brain injury,
which may lead to better understanding of mobility problems and lead to new and better treatments. This
work was recognized by the Minnie Flaura Turner Foundation for excellence in visual impairment
research, and by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology as a member-in-training
scientific poster award finalist. He also recently completed a study attempting to provide a more natural
perception of a prismatically restored visual field in patients with hemianopia through the development
and testing of a touch screen perceptual-motor training software. Results were positive with improved
accuracy in the restored visual field and significantly improved detection performance in a driving
simulator. This work has been presented nationally and is being prepared for publication.
His clinical area of excellence has been as an advocate for and provider of inpatient brain-injury vision
rehabilitation. He recognized early in his career the opportunity to efficiently and compassionately
provide vision rehabilitation care for people alongside their inpatient physical rehabilitation. This service
had been unofficially provided by occupational therapists who recognized their limited training and
advocated for having optometrists on staff. The inpatient service he provides includes diagnosing vision
impairments, providing staff and patient education, making suggestions for compensatory tactics,
providing treatment of double vision with press-on prisms or occlusion, and early and supervised
intervention for hemianopia with field expansion (prisms). A career goal has become integration of vision
rehabilitation into the multidisciplinary rehab team and training of optometrists to address this enormous
unmet need. While other optometrists have provided this type of service, no official training program
exists and there are not enough trained optometrists to staff the many rehabilitation hospitals. As a
clinical assistant professor of vision rehab at Indiana University, he gained his first appointment at the
Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana in 2007, adding inpatient and outpatient brain injury vision
rehabilitation to the established low vision rehabilitation training program. With several colleagues at
other colleges of optometry he created and was the inaugural chair of the neuro-rehab educator’s special
interest group, which meets annually at the academy of optometry meeting with the goals of developing a
unified curriculum and coordinated fellowship program. Upon arriving in Boston in 2011 he assumed
leadership for the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network vision service, expanding the inpatient service at
Boston and initiating an inpatient service at Cape Cod.
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