Course Directors
Giselle Ricur, MD, MBA, MS, FATA
Executive Director, Virtual Care
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Chris R. Alabiad, MD
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Medical Education
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
Director, Ophthalmology Residency and Fellowship Programs
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Eduardo C. Alfonso, MD
Director, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Co-Medical Director, University of Miami Hospital and Clinics UHealth
Miami, FL
Guest Speakers
Pamela Boyers, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor, Clinical Simulation
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Alexandre Charter Taleb, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Telemedicine/Ophthalmology
Coordinator, Núcleo de Telemedicina e Telessaúde
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Goiás
CEO, Virtual Doctor Telemedicina
Goias, Brasil
Andrea Cooley, DO, FACOS
Associate Professor, Medical Education
Assistant Dean of Clinical Experience
University of Texas Tyler School of Medicine
Tyler, TX
Daniella Ferrara, MD, PhD, FASRS
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Tufts University
Chief Medical Officer at Topcon Healthcare
Tallahassee, FL
Robert Fine, MS
Founder and Executive Director
International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association (IVRHA)
Washington, D.C.
Prashant Garg, MD, MS
CEO LV Prasad Eye Institute
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Manjot Gill, MD, MS, FASRS, FRCS (C)
Professor of Ophthalmology & Medical Education
Vice Chair of Clinical Performance
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Evanston, IL
Greg Gutmann
Senior Systems Architect
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Michael Hollins, MBA, MPA, MA
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Creative Productions and Emerging Technologies iEXCEL
University of Nebraska Medical School
Omaha, NE
Anuradha Khanna, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Vice Chair of Education
Department of Ophthalmology
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL
Ali Khoshnevis, OD
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer EyeCheq
Miami, FL
Erran Orr, MBA
CEO and Founder of XRHealth
Boston, MA
Jorge Orbay
Computer Engineer
Open AI Scholar
Columbia University
New York, NY
Eduardo P. Mayorga, MD
Hospital Universitario Austral
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Roger Zaldivar, MD
CEO, Instituto Zaldivar
CEO & Co-Founder, REVAI
Mendoza, Argentina
Eduardo Vadia, MD
Co-founder, Access Physicians
Division of SOC Telemed
Miami, FL
University of Miami Speakers and Moderators
Mohamed F. Abou Shousha, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Gauri G. Agarwal, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Dean of Curriculum
Bruno Nahar Aragao de Oliviera, MD
Associate Professor of Urologic Oncology
Associate Director UHealth International
Desai Sethi Urology Institute
Florence Cabot, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Maria Carolina Delgado-Lelievre, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Founder Director, Comprehensive Hypertension Center
Steven J. Gedde, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Vice Chair of Education
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Victor H. Hernandez, MD, MSc
Professor and Chief, Division of Arthroplasty & Adult Joint Reconstruction
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Maja Kostic, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Van Charles Lansingh, MD
Voluntary Faculty
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Margarita Llinas, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Antonio C. Marttos, Jr., MD
Professor of Surgery, Trauma, Burns and Surgical Critical Care
Ryder Trauma Center - Jackson Memorial Hospital
Director of Global e-Health /Trauma Telemedicine, William Lehman Injury Research Center
Felipe Medeiros, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Vice-Chair of Research, McKnight Vision Research Center
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Carlos E. Mendoza, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Asit Misra, MD, MSMEd, FSSH
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Assistant Director, Prehospital and Emergency Healthcare Division
Gordon Center
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Cristina Rubio-Delgado, APRN, MSN, FNP-BC, LSSGB
Assistant VP, Connected Care and Advanced Practice
Azizi A. Seixas, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, The Media and Innovation Lab
Associate Director, Center for Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences
Interim Chair, Department of Informatics and Health Data Science
Swarup Swaminathan, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Medical Director of Informatics
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
David Wayne, PhD
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
Yanyun Wu, MD
Clinical Professor
Vice Chair of Business Development & Innovation & Pathology Reference Services
Chief, Laboratory Medicine
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Siamek Yousefi, PhD
Associate Professor
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Data Mining and Machine Learning (DM2L) Laboratory