#45 Eye Give a Damn about AI in Eye Care with Dr. Roya Attar

Roya Attar, OD, MBA, DHA, is a professor and director of optometric services at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Attar is passionate about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is affecting healthcare, vision care, and our personal lives both currently and in the future. She feels strongly that AI can help people be more productive by offloading “busy” work. For instance, Dr. Attar utilizes AI to manage her emails and as a scribe to help her focus on her patient while the program takes notes and fills in the EHR, which she reviews afterward. She discusses some of her favorite AI programs and different ways they can be incorporated into your daily professional and personal life. Like any other new technology, she feels AI will augment healthcare professionals’ ability to diagnose, manage and treat patients. She is most excited about how AI will enable more personalized medicine going forward. On a personal note, this is another full circle moment for Dr. Joseph Allen (‪@DoctorEyeHealth‬ as he interviews his former TA from the UIW Rosenberg School of Optometry.