Physicians Profiles

Pediatric
The Pediatric/Developmental Ophthalmology Service consists of The Vision Center and the Childrens Eye Medical and Surgical Group at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), including a program developed in association with CHLA, the Institute for Families of Blind Children, as well as the Pediatric Ophthalmology Clinic as the LAC+USC Medical Center, Outpatient Department. A full range of diagnostic and treatment methodologies are available through Doheny's ancillary and orthoptic service departments. Faculty members on this service have modified a behavioral technique, Forced Preferential Looking (FPL), for measuring visual acuity in infants and preverbal children. In addition to offering the full range of pediatric ophthalmology care, this service specializes in diagnosis and treatment of ocular oncology, neuro-ophthalmology, retinal disorders and strabismus.

	Mark S. Borchert, M.D. Dr. Borchert earned an M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California and a fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Harvard University. Dr. Borchert specializes in Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology. His research on the development of the retina and optic nerve in rats was part of a recent experiment on the NASA space shuttle. Dr. Borchert is an Associate Professor at the USC Keck School of Medicine.

Picture Not Available	Angela N. Buffenn, MD, MPH Dr. Angela N. Buffenn completed her medical degree and masters of public health degree at the University of Michigan. She completed her residency at the University of Maryland and her fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital.Dr. Buffenn is director of the Orbit and Eye Movement Institute in the Vision Center at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, director of the pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus fellowship program at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology, the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

	Thomas Lee, MD Dr. Thomas C. Lee specializes in retinopathy of prematurity and retinoblastoma, along with other challenging retinal diseases. Dr. Lee earned his bachelor's at Johns Hopkins University and received his MD from Cornell University where he graduated with Honors in Research as a Howard Hughes Scholar. He completed his ophthalmology residency at Cornell and then went to Harvard Medical School as a Heed Fellow where he studied retinal stem cells and the role they play in cancer. He completed his retina fellowship at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School before returning to Cornell where he was a Fred Gluck Scholar. He is an assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), attending physician at the Doheny Eye Institute at USC and is director of the Retina Institute at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

	A. Linn Murphree, M.D. Dr. Murphree earned an M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed three fellowships: one at the University of Copenhagen, another at Baylor College of Medicine, and the third at Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Murphree is a Professor of Ophthalmology and Pediatrics at the USC Keck School of Medicine and leads the development of a world-class Ocular Oncology Service at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and at the Doheny Eye Institute. Dr. Murphree and his colleagues have also developed new protocols for the treatment of retinoblastoma. He co-chairs the Retinoblastoma Study (RBS), a planned international multicenter clinical trial.

	Jonathan Song, M.D. Dr. Song earned an M.D. from University of California San Francisco. He completed his residency at University of Southern California / Doheny Eye Institute. He also served as chief resident during his residency. He completed two fellowships: a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and a fellowship in Comea / Refractive Surgery at Doheny Eye Institute.

	Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, MPH Dr. Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch directs the Vision Development Institute in the Vision Center at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, and is assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Tarczy-Hornoch earned her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and her doctorate in neurophysiology at the University of Oxford, England. She completed her residency at the Doheny Eye Institute/USC and a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital.