Allen Ho

About Allen Ho

Attending Surgeon and Director of Retina Research Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia; Professor of Ophthalmology Thomas Jefferson University, USA

What is a little-known fact about you?

When I thought my teenage kids had life too easy, I had them climb Mount Kilimanjaro – 19,341 feet – with me.

Make a bold prediction for the future of ophthalmology.

Native intelligence, persistence to task, and resilience in the face of failure will be as or more important than AI in finding better treatments for vision threatening diseases.

How do you think AI and machine learning will impact ophthalmology?

As data sets improve and mature, AI and machine learning will generate new insights that can improve and expand therapeutic options for patients. Precision image guided robotic surgery, accelerated candidate drug screening, hypothesis generation for new treatment strategies, and public health disease screening are areas where we will see impact.