For almost 20 years Dr. Horn has focused his career on the exceptional surgical correction of vision. Below you can see why Dr. Horn and Vision for Life is considered one of the top vision correction centers in the United States.
| FELLOWSHIP | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO La Jolla, California Cornea, External Disease and Refractive Surgery July 1993 – June 1994 |
| RESIDENCY | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Chicago, Illinois Ophthalmology Chief Resident, 1992 July 1990 – June 1993 |
| INTERNSHIP | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER Los Angeles, California Internal Medicine July 1989 – June 1990 |
| EDUCATION | SUNY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER at SYRACUSE Syracuse, New York Doctor of Medicine, Magna Cum Laude May 1989 Suny at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York Bachelor of Science, Biology, Summa Cum Laude May 1985 |
| FACULTY AND STAFF APPOINTMENTS | STAFF PHYSICIAN Baptist Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee August 1997 – July 2005 Clinical Instructor Department of Ophthalmology University of California, San Diego July 1993 – April 1996 |
| HONORS AND AWARDS | • Vision Center “Best LASIK Eye Surgeon in Nashville”, 2023 & 2024 • Vision Center “Best LASIK Eye Surgeon in Murfreesboro”, 2023 & 2024 • “Best LASIK Surgery Center”, Finalist Nashville Scene’s Best of Nashville, 2021-2023 • “Best of Ophthalmology” Finalist, Tennessean’s Best of Music City, 2020-2023 • “Best LASIK Surgery Center”, Nashville Scene’s Best of Nashville, 2020 • “Top Doctors”, Nashville Lifestyles, Nominated by Castle Connolly 2019-2023 •Castle Connolly Top Doctor 2018-2024 •First surgeon in Middle TN to use the WaveLight Ex500 LASIK Laser, 2020 •First surgeon in Middle TN to use Contoura Vision LASIK, 2020 •“Best Eye Surgeons in America”, Nominated by Castle Connolly, 2018 & 2019 •First surgeon in Tennessee to surgically implant the PanOptix Trifocal Lens, 2019 •“Innovator in Refractive Cataract Surgery”, Ocular Surgery News, 2016 •“Top Two Nashville LASIK Surgeons”, Toast of Music City, 2015 •“America’s Top Ophthalmologists”, Consumers Research Council, 2004-2005 •Lifetime Learning Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2005 •First surgeon in Tennessee to remove cataract via laser, January 8, 2002 •Lexington Who’s Who in America, 2000 •Outstanding Surgical Instructor, Vanderbilt Eye Center, 1999 |
