Michael Abramoff

Michael David Abràmoff (born 1963) is an American neuroscientist, ophthalmologist, vitreoretinal surgeon, computer engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the Watzke Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. Abràmoff was an early advocate for AI in healthcare and in 2010 founded the company IDx, now Digital Diagnostics, in order to develop algorithms that could diagnose diabetic retinopathy at an earlier stage of the disease than clinicians. Through Digital Diagnostics, Abràmoff lead the development of IDx-DR (now LumineticsCore), the first autonomous diagnostic platform to be cleared by the FDA in any field of medicine. He is an inventor on over 60 US and international patents and patent applications primarily related to machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and imaging.