Saving Sight: Diabetic Retinopathy in Primary Care

Faculty

David S. Friedman, MD, MPH, PhD
Albert and Diane Kaneb Chair, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Director of Glaucoma and Medical Director for Clinical Research Co-Director of the Glaucoma Center of Excellence Professor, Harvard Medical School
Grayson W. Armstrong, MD, MPH

Medical Retina and Cataract Surgeon, Mass Eye & Ear
Director, Ophthalmic Emergency Services, Mass Eye & Ear
Associate Director of Ophthalmic Medical Student Education, Harvard Medical School  

Dr. Armstrong has fostered an interest in ophthalmic telemedicine and healthcare technology innovation and entrepreneurship since medical school. He is focusing his research endeavors on instituting tele-ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear and beyond. He has served as an advisor for various health technology startups. In his role as founder of Ocular Technologies, he has been working with collaborators in Boston and across the United States in the design of novel telemedicine and artificial intelligence technologies in the field of ophthalmology for which he won the 2020 MIT 100k Entrepreneurship Award.

Dr. Armstrong has published more than 16 peer-reviewed publications, multiple book chapters, and presented research and lectures at multiple national and international conferences. Dr. Armstrong’s clinical research in ophthalmology has focused on novel ophthalmic multimodal imaging techniques for a variety of eye diseases, as well as epidemiologic studies of eye trauma presenting to emergency departments across the United States. Recently, he has focused on novel tele-ophthalmic models of care and has an interest in the application of artificial intelligence to improve access to care. Prior to beginning his residency at Harvard Ophthalmology, Dr. Armstrong was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society and completed his transitional year internship at HMS-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, MA.