Agenda

Ophthalmic AI Summit 2026
June 6, 2026
All times are in Eastern Time Zone

Session 1: Technological Advances in AI, from Data to Solutions
Moderator: Rishi Singh, MD, FASRS

9:00 AM Opening Remarks

9:02 AM Gen AI for Ophthalmology: Latest Trend in 2026
Daniel Ting, MD, PhD

9:10 AM Building the Future of Ophthalmic AI: Our Institutional Data and Imaging Repository
Tobias Elze, PhD

9:18 AM Federated Learning for Ophthalmic Diagnostics
Minhaj Alam, PhD

9:26 AM Foundation Models – From Artificial General Intelligence to Artificial Medical Intelligence
Pearse Keane, MD

9:34 AM Patient-facing AI: When Should We Not Use It?
Stephanie Campbell, PhD

9:42 AM AI Education and Curriculum
R.V. Paul Chan, MD, MSc, MBA, FACS

9:50 AM Panel Discussion: All Section 1 Faculty

Session 2: Advances in AI for Retinal Research and Clinical Trials
Moderator: Daniela Ferrara, MD, PhD, FASRS, FARVO

10:00 AM Prescreening Models for Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Trials
Amitha Domapally, MD, PhD

10:08 AM Benchmarking Large Language Models for OCT-Based AMD Recognition
Majda Hadziahmetovic, MD

10:16 AM Functional OCT in GA
Marc Steffan Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD

10:24 AM Assessment of Functional Loss in GA: Retinal Sensitivity
Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD

10:32 AM Prognostic AI Models for GA and Their Applications in Clinical Trials
Christina Rabe, PhD

10:40 AM AI and Retinal Imaging Innovation for Innovative Trial Designs
Nadia Waheed, MD, MPH

10:48 AM Panel Discussion: All Section 2 Faculty

10:58 AM Sponsored Talk – Genentech

Session 3: Advances in AI for Diabetic Retinopathy and Beyond
Moderator: Jennifer Lim, MD, FASRS, FARVO

11:03 AM Real World Implementation of Diabetic Retinopathy Screening with AI
Alice Lorch, MD, MPH

11:11 AM Classifying Diabetic Retinopathy Through Retinal Signatures in Fundus Images
Homa Rashidisabet, PhD

11:19 AM Quantitative Ultra Wide-Field Angiography in Diabetic Retinopathy
Katherine Talcott, MD

11:27 AM Artificial Intelligence in Uveitis Care
Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH

11:35 AM AI-Driven Hyperspectral Oximetry Reveals Oxygen Hyper-Extraction and Hypoperfusion in Macular Atrophy
Souvick Mukherjee, PhD

11:43 AM Delivering Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice with Examples From Retina Melanoma, Pediatric Retina, and Oculomics
Jochen Kumm, PhD

11:51 AM Panel Discussion: All Section 3 Faculty

Session 4: Oculomics Research
Moderator: Theodore Leng, MD, FACS

12:01 PM Retinal AI for Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic Health
Michael McConnell, MD, MSEE

12:09 PM Oculomics in Neurodegenerative Disease
Carol Cheung, PhD, MPhil, BSc

12:17 PM AI for Sickle Cell Disease
Nimesh Patel, MD

12:25 PM Ambient Oculomics
Ranya Habash, MD

12:33 PM Applications of an AI-derived Vascular Severity Scale in Retinopathy of Prematurity in the US and India: New Insights into Disease Epidemiology and Pathophysiology
Peter Campbell, MD, MPH

12:41 PM AI for Ophthalmic Disease Deep Phenotyping and Genetic Discovery
Nazlee Zebardast, MD, MSc

12:49 PM Panel Discussion: All Section 4 Faculty

12:59 PM Closing Remarks