Tackling Diabetic Retinopathy in a Safety Net Healthcare Setting with Telehealth and Machine Learning
Thursday, April 14, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Zoom Webinar
Speaker:
Omolola Ogunyemi, PhD, FACMI
Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics
Professor, Dept. of Preventive and Social Medicine
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Abstract: Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working age adults in the United States. It is challenging to address in both rural and urban underserved settings, which suffer from shortages of eye specialists. This talk will describe the approach taken to address this condition in a medically underserved area (South Los Angeles) by researchers in the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, using telehealth and machine learning on data from patient electronic health records.
