Research | College of Optometry

Pacific University College of Optometry fosters a collaborative research environment where faculty, staff, and graduate and professional students engage in exploring a variety of vision issues and working toward solutions to improve vision health and visual performance.

From clinical, basic, and translational science, our goal is to translate research findings into better health and performance outcomes related to vision. We work with a variety of academic and industrial partners on various topics, including:

  • sports vision
  • myopia control
  • vision therapy
  • ocular diseases
  • vision-related product evaluation and user feedback
Vision testing & research
Vision Performance Institute

The Vision Performance Institute (VPI) is a leading research organization focused on vision sciences. VPI is dedicated to researching vision performance to drive product development, support, and clinical care. We have recently added the capability to investigate and map consumer/user experiences to aspects of engineering performance that matter to a product/experience developer. We use rigorous scientific methodologies to perform pointed experiments that will provide you unbiased, focused results to drive your strategic and technical decisions. 

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