Michael Abramoff MD

Biography:

Michael Abramoff received the M.D. degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

He is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, with joint appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.

He is Associate Director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence for the Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss.

He serves on the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Iowa Medical Society.

When he is not seeing patients with retinal disease or teaching medical students, residents and fellows, he oversees a highly successful retinal image analysis research program. His focus is on automated early detection of retinal diseases, image guided therapy of retinal disease, and computational phenotype-genotype association discovery. He holds seven patents and patent applications in this field.



A link to my own web site: http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/retina-vitreous/23-michael-abramoff