April
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
8:00-9:00am PT
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Sophia Wang, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Stanford University
Title: Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Eye Care
Abstract: This presentation will discuss using electronic health records (EHR) to develop AI algorithms for eye care. By presenting several examples motivated by the desire to improve glaucoma care, the presentation will illustrate some of the challenges in using EHR for developing ophthalmology algorithms, such as those related to aggregating and standardizing eye-relevant data, and algorithm fairness and generalizability. The presentation will also discuss some promising initiatives to study and overcome these challenges, including ongoing initiatives to incorporate eye data into multicenter registries and data standardization efforts.
Dr. Wang is an ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma and a clinician scientist in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating artificial intelligence methods to predict ophthalmic outcomes using electronic health records. Dr Wang's work on developing algorithms to predict glaucoma progression and evaluating the fairness and generalizability of EHR models is funded by the NIH, the American Glaucoma Society, and Research to Prevent Blindness.