Bio

Dr. Michael D. Abramoff, MD, PhD, is a neuroscientist, fellowship-trained retina specialist, and computer engineer. He is Founder and Executive Chairman of Digital Diagnostics, the first company ever to receive FDA clearance for an autonomous AI diagnostic system. He is also the Watzke Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa. He brought together intellectual property, including 16 patents on AI algorithms and sensors, the autonomous AI concept and its liability implications, its bioethical and health economics foundation, that inspires the vision that brought Digital Diagnostics to where it is today. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Abramoff continues to treat patients with retinal disease and trains medical students, residents, and fellows, as well as engineering graduate students at the University of Iowa. Dr. Abramoff has published over 300 peer reviewed journal papers (h-index 62) on AI, image analysis, and retinal diseases, that have been cited over 32,000 times, as well as many book chapters. He is the inventor on 17 us patents and 5 patent applications on AI, medical imaging and image analysis, and was one of the original developers of ImageJ.