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Ophthalmic Innovation Symposium 

Agenda

 

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Time

Speaker(s)

Presentation Description

7:30 am – 8:00 am

BREAKFAST

OPHTHALMIC INNOVATION FROM CONCEPT TO CLINIC

8:00 am – 8:05 am

David Myung

Welcome Remarks

8:05 am – 8:20 am

Emma Essock-Burns

The Biodesign Process

8:20 am – 8:30 am

Frank Brodie

Physician-Driven Innovation

8:30 am – 8:40 am

Mark Blumenkranz

Innovating from Academia

8:40 am – 8:50 am

Dan Schwartz

NVasc: Addressing the Root Cause of Retinovascular Disease

8:50 am – 9:00 am

Jeff Goldberg

Emmecell: From Concept to Clinic

9:00 am – 9:20 am

Daniel Palanker

Keynote: Prosthetic Vision with PRIMA

9:20 am – 9:30 am

Bryce Chiang

Innovation as an Early-stage Physician- Scientist

9:30 am – 10:00 am

Innovation Fellows Panel

Moderator: Emma Essock-Burns

Alex Kreymerman, Eliot Dow, Palmer Feibelman, Sachin Rajpal, Kevin Jackson, Michael Mbagwu, Zachary Bodnar, Bryce Chiang, Aaron Webel

INDUSTRY PANEL

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Moderator: Frank Brodie

Panelists: Terry Kim, Daniela Ferrara, Raj Rajpal, Kfir Azoulay

Industry Panel

 

10:30 am – 10:40 am

BREAK

OCULOMICS

10:40 am – 10:50 am

Daniela Ferrara

Oculomics

10:50 am – 11:00 am

Michael McConnell

Oculomics

11:00 am – 11:10 am

Vinit Mahajan

Oculomics

OCULOMICS PANEL

11:10 am – 11:30 am

Moderator: Malvina Eydelman

Panelists: Ali Tafreshi, Daniela Ferrara, Michael McConnell, Vinit Mahajan

Oculomics Panel

 

INVESTOR PANEL

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Moderator: Mark Blumenkranz

Panelists: Cathy Truitt, Ali Tafreshi, Doug Fisher

Investor Panel

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

LUNCH

PEDIATRICS

1:00 pm – 1:10 pm

Natalie Afshari

The Role of CCOI in Advancing Pediatric Eye Care

1:10 pm – 1:20 pm

Daniel Ting

Myopia

1:20 pm – 1:30 pm

Zachary Bodnar

Keratoconus Screening with CLEA: From Concept to Clinic

 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Daniel Ting

Generative AI

1:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Michael Abramoff

AI for Diabetic Retinopathy and Beyond

2:00 pm – 2:10 pm

Darius Moshfeghi

AI and Tele-ROP / No Blind Babies

ROBOTICS

2:10 pm – 2:25 pm

JP Hubschman

(Horizon)

From Surgeon Control to Supervised Autonomy: The Path for Robotics in Ophthalmic Surgery

2:25 pm – 2:40 pm

Shameema Sikder

Robotics

2:40 pm – 2:55 pm

David Chang

Redefining the Surgeon–Robot Partnership in Ophthalmology

2:55 pm – 3:15 pm

Moderator: Shameema Sikder

Panelists:

Robotics Panel Discussion

David Chang, JP Hubschman, Malvina Eydelman

3:15 pm – 3:25 pm

BREAK

LMIC

3:25 pm – 3:35 pm

Daniela Ferrara, MD, MS, PhD

LMIC Introduction

3:35 pm – 3:45 pm

Amit Mathur, MD

Capacity Building to Commercial Innovation

3:45 pm – 3:55 pm

Geoff Tabin, MD

LMIC Innovation

3:55 pm – 4:05 pm

Barbara Erny, MD

Sustainability in Eye Care

Intellectual Property

4:05 pm – 4:15 pm

Ben Glenn, JD

Intellectual Property Considerations in Ophthalmic Innovation

 

REGULATORY SCIENCE IN INNOVATION

4:15 pm – 4:45 pm

Moderator: Frank Brodie

Panelists: Malvina Eydelman, Elvin Ng, Tieuvi Nguyen

Global Regulatory Q&A

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm

Frank Brodie & David Myung

Closing Remarks