Lisa Ostrin
04 June 2025
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Lisa Ostrin
University of Houston College of Optometry
About the Speaker
Lisa Ostrin is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston College of Optometry. She received an OD/PhD at the University of Houston College of Optometry. She then went completed a post docs at John Hopkins in retinal prosthetics and at the University of California Berkeley in myopia. She returned to the University of Houston to continue work in myopia, conducting studies in both human participants and animal models. She is interested in environmental factors and visual cues that contribute to myopia onset and progression, as well as in the development and testing of novel myopia treatments. In addition to research, Dr. Ostrin teaches gross and ocular anatomy and has authored a book, Anatomy of the Human Eye: a Coloring Atlas. Dr. Ostrin is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, Gold Fellow of ARVO, and a recipient of the American Optometric Foundation Ezell Fellowship and the University of Houston College of Optometry Cora and J Davis Armistead Teaching Award.
