Dr. Patricia Hom grew up in Silicon Valley, graduating from Monta Vista High school in Cupertino. She received her undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She then completed her doctorate at the University of California Berkeley, School of Optometry in 1997. Afterwards, Dr. Hom trained at a residency with the Palo Alto Veteran’s Administration in primary care and low vision. This began her love of low vision, the specialty of helping recapture functional vision with magnifiers and telescopes for individuals with vision loss from eye diseases such as diabetes, macular degeneration and glaucoma.
From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Hom served on the Board of Directors for the Santa Clara County Optometric Society (SCCOS). She was honored as the SCCOS Young Optometrist of the Year in 2002. She was a member of the Health Advisory Committee for the Berkeley YMCA Headstart Program. Dr. Hom was a member of the Ocular Surface Disease Society of Optometrists and is trained in the treatment of dry eye and associated conditions. Dr. Hom and her husband have traveled to Nicaragua to serve as Medical Missionaries with Medical Wings International, a group of health care professionals associated with the United Nations.
Dr. Hom and her husband currently live in the Tri-Cities area with their young son. In her spare time, Dr. Hom enjoys cooking new recipes, reading biographies, singing when allowed, and hiking the East Bay parks.
