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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.

FELLOWSHIPUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
La Jolla, California
Cornea, External Disease and Refractive Surgery
July 1993 – June 1994
RESIDENCYNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Chicago, Illinois
Ophthalmology
Chief Resident, 1992
July 1990 – June 1993
INTERNSHIPCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
Los Angeles, California
Internal Medicine
July 1989 – June 1990
EDUCATIONSUNY 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 APPOINTMENTSSTAFF 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

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