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
Digital EyeCon Innovator Awardee
Rosa Ana Tang, MD, MPH, MBA
Medical Director, Neuro-Ophthalmology of Texas, PLLC
Co-Medical Director, Eye Wellness Center and Neuro-Eye Clinical Trials Inc.
Clinical Adjunct Professor, College of Medicine, University of Houston, TX
Clinical Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UT Medical School, Houston, TX
Adjunct Professor, UIW Rosenberg School of Optometry, San Antonio, TX
Adjunct Professor, Chicago College of Optometry, University Eye Institute, Chicago, IL
Guest Speakers
Pamela Boyers, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor, Clinical Simulation
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
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, PhD
Co-founder and CTO, ArithmoAI
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Instructor
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
Eduardo P. Mayorga, MD
Hospital Universitario Austral
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Shahnaz Miri, MD, MBA
Founder Vision Neurology Center
CEO and Founder IATRION
San Francisco, CA
Jorge Orbay
Research Software Engineer
Open AI Scholar
Columbia University
New York, NY
Erran Orr, MBA
CEO and Founder of XRHealth
Boston, MA
Jade Schiffman
President, Neuro-Eye Diagnostic Systems
Houston, TX
Alexandre C. 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
Eduardo Vadia, MD
Co-founder, Access Physicians
Division of SOC Telemed
Miami, FL
Roger Zaldivar, MD
CEO, Instituto Zaldivar
CEO & Co-Founder, REVAI
Montevideo, Uruguay
University of Miami Speakers and Moderators
Mohamed F. Abou Shousha, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Esdras Arrieta-Quintero
Post Doctoral Associate, AI and Computer Augmented Vision Lab
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Yiannis S. Chatzizisis, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FESC
Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Maria Delgado-Lelievre, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Founder Director, Comprehensive Hypertension Center
Sara E. Fleszar-Pavlovic, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Division of Medical Oncology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Research Operations Lead for the Survivorship and Supportive Care Institute
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer 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
Tamara Juvier-Riesgo, MD, MS, PhD
Clinical Fellow
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
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
Georgeana Mijares
Clinical Research Coordinator
AI and Computer Augmented Vision Laboratory
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
Bruno Nahar Aragao de Oliviera, MD
Associate Professor of Urologic Oncology
Associate Director UHealth International
Desai Sethi Urology Institute
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
University of Miami IT Artificial Intelligence
Yanyun Wu, MD
Clinical Professor
Vice Chair of Business Development & Innovation & Pathology Reference Services
Chief, Laboratory Medicine
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Siamak Yousefi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Director, Data Mining and Machine Learning (DM2L) Laboratory