A.I. in Eye Care brings you the latest news in artificial intelligence (A.I.) as it relates to health care in general and eye care specifically. With regularly scheduled e-newsletters arriving in your inbox during every week, you will be kept apprised of everything pertinent to your practice about A.I.
A.I. is entering every business segment, promising to augment capabilities and efficiencies in all professions and industries like no other new technology before. Eye care is no different. Numerous A.I. tools have already been adopted unknowingly by ECPs, and a wave of new applications are anticipated for the near future. A.I. is speeding up the already underway digital transformation of the eye care practice.
A.I. in Eye Care was developed to ensure that eye care professionals have access to the latest news, resources, technologies, and education available about A.I. as it relates directly to their profession and practice.
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Professional Co-Editor Scot Morris, OD [email protected] Scot Morris, OD, has practiced for 25 years in various clinical settings and served as a technology author, magazine chief optometric editor, corporate advisor, practice consultant, and prominent educator. He started or cofounded multiple companies within the eye care industry and participated in multiple clinical trials. Among the challenges he consistently hears about in the health care industry for providers, patients, companies, and the health system are inefficient care delivery, clinical decision-making errors, rising costs, access issues, and failure to provide connected care.Through his various roles, Dr. Morris has focused on how to improve system efficiencies, market, and teach peers how to improve care delivery. His peers voted him as one of the 50 most influential people in eye care and one of the top 250 innovators in the industry. Driven to always find a better way and share that knowledge to make people and processes better, Dr. Morris spent his entire career thinking about health care challenges, how to solve them, and educating others to do the same. As a result, he spent the last few years focusing on these issues and codeveloping a knowledge platform called the AMI Knowledge System, (AMIKnowS), to share and evolve knowledge in hopes that we can solve many health care issues and enable the delivery of accessible and unbiased health care regardless of income, education, or geography. |
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Professional Co-Editor Dr. Rehan Ahmed, MD [email protected] Rehan Ahmed, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist with Greater Houston Eye Consultants who is passionate about improving eye care.He has extensive experience in the wide spectrum of eye care – from direct medical and surgical patient care to managing medical optometry and ophthalmology practice environments to innovating in drug and device development.Dr. Ahmed is a practicing ophthalmologist and Chief Medical Officer at Blink, a start-up in remote ocular health care. He also works with pharmaceutical companies in the clinical design, both early and late stage studies in multiple eye indications. Dr. Ahmed received his MD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed his internship at the University of Texas, residency in ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine, and his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. |
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Editor-in-Chief John Sailer [email protected] A writer/editor his entire career, John Sailer was named Editor-in-Chief of A.I. in Eye Care during its launch year of 2024, and he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Review of Myopia Management in January 2020. He first entered the vision care field in 2005 with Vision Care Product News, following positions with various trade publications in other areas of expertise. In 2011, he joined Jobson Optical Group and the Vision Monday editorial team as Senior Editor. Sailer returned to VCPN as VP, Editorial, in 2015, before leaving to return to Jobson to join RMM just before the publication’s first anniversary in March 2020. |
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Managing Editor Kristen Dalli [email protected] Kristen Dalli became the inaugural Managing Editor of A.I. in Eye Care during its launch year of 2024. She joined Review of Myopia Management as the Managing Editor in February 2021. Before joining Jobson, she served as a writer and editor for several publications, including Thomas Greco Publishing, Causeway Lit, and Brevity. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Fairfield University in August 2020. She has recently worked as a reporter for Consumer Affairs, covering a wide range of health-related topics. |