Michael F. Chiang

About Michael F. Chiang

What major industry/global trends are catching your attention right now?

In many industries (such as shopping, travel bookings, entertainment), key activities have shifted toward being delivered closer to people’s homes. Although most healthcare is still being delivered in traditional physician offices, I see people becoming increasingly comfortable with managing their own healthcare using mobile apps, wearable devices, and other technologies.

In what ways do you think artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will impact ophthalmic innovation?

Currently, we often have limited interoperability and standards conformance among different computing technologies and imaging devices in ophthalmology. This creates significant barriers for innovation using AI and ML, and it creates broad challenges for clinical care and research. I think there will need to be more attention directed toward interoperability and standards conformance.

What advice would you give to your younger self?

I’d tell myself how quickly the fields of medicine and science evolve – and to learn to be comfortable evolving my skills and mindset to hopefully stay at the leading edge. My younger self didn’t realize how important (or challenging and exciting) that has been.