Dr. Michael F. Chiang

Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Michael F. Chiang is Director of the National Eye Institute, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is board-certified in ophthalmology and clinical informatics, and his research focuses on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), telehealth, artificial intelligence, electronic health records, data science, and genotype-phenotype correlation.

Dr. Chiang began at NIH in November 2020. He serves as Chair of multiple NIH-wide committees and working groups involving data science, imaging, health disparities, and clinical research. He is a member of the NIH-FDA Joint Leadership Council, and a member of the Health Information Technology Committee of the US Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy. He is an Adjunct Investigator at the National Library of Medicine, and his group has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and developed an assistive artificial intelligence system for ROP that received Breakthrough Status from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Before coming to NIH, he received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Biology from Stanford University, an MD from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and an MA in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University. He completed residency and pediatric ophthalmology fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. Between 2001-2010, he worked at Columbia University, where he was Anne S. Cohen Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Biomedical Informatics, director of medical student education in ophthalmology, and director of the introductory graduate student course in biomedical informatics. From 2010-2020, he worked at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), where he was Knowles Professor of Ophthalmology & Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, and Associate Director of the Casey Eye Institute.

He previously served as a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Board of Trustees, Chair of the AAO IRIS Registry Data Analytics Committee, Chair of the AAO Artificial Intelligence Committee, Chair of the AAO Medical Information Technology Committee, and on numerous other national and local committees. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and is Associate Editor of the textbook Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. He has previously served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and on the Editorial Boards for Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology Retina, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology.