Dr. Kevin Houston is a Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Optometry at the Indiana University School of Optometry. He was hired in January of 2007 as the new director of low vision rehabilitation services, Indianapolis. Dr. Houston is one of a small number of specialized Doctors of Optometry in Indiana who provide eye care for the partially sighted with emphasis on using the person's remaining sight and adaptive optics/technology to improve visual function. IU's eye care centers are specially equipped to allow for thorough evaluation of adults and children with serious vision disturbance resulting from degenerative eye conditions, stroke, brain tumors, automobile accidents, congenital eye conditions, and degenerative neurological conditions. Patients will typically have severely reduced visual acuity, glare disability, constricted visual fields, visual spatial distortions, visual processing disorders, color vision deficits, or double vision. These vision conditions often result in poor balance, dizziness, and inability to perform activities of daily living.

Dr. Houston received a Doctor of Optometry degree from the Indiana University School of Optometry in 2003. He also has degrees in Zoology and Chemistry from Eastern Illinois University. His clinical rotations were completed at the Hudson Valley Veterans Hospital in New York, the Institute for Sports Vision in Connecticut, and Guanajuato Hospital in Mexico. Dr. Houston recently earned a Fellowship in the American Academy of Optometry, meeting the requirements for this post-graduate distinction. Post-graduate training in low vision rehabilitation was done at Gottlieb Vision Group in Atlanta, Georgia, a private practice well known in the Optometric community for the treatment of complex vision loss. Currently, Dr. Houston is affiliated with Indianpolis Eye Care Center downtown Indianapolis, IU Eye in Carmel, and the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. He is also a lecturer at the IU School of Optometry in Bloomington and IU School of Ophthalmology in Indianapolis on the topics of low vision. Current research interests include rehabilitation of Left Hemispatial Neglect and Macular Degeneration.