David Huang earned BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, and MD-PhD degrees from the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program. He received ophthalmology residency training at the Doheny Eye Institute/University of Southern California and fellowship training in cornea, external diseases and refractive surgery at Emory University.

Dr. Huang is currently the Associate Director and Director of Research of Casey Eye Institute, and the Peterson Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Huang leads the Center for Ophthalmic Optics and Lasers (www.COOLLab.net), which comprise 5 faculty members conducting research ranging from the development of novel instrumentation and algorithms to clinical studies in a wide variety of ophthalmic and neurological diseases. He has a clinical practice in cornea and refractive surgery.

Dr. Huang is known for his innovations in applying laser and optical technology to eye diseases. Dr. Huang is a co-inventor of optical coherence tomography (OCT), which is a commonly used ophthalmic imaging technology at 30 million procedures per year. His seminal article on OCT, published in Science in 1991, has been cited more than 14,000 times. He has 34 issued US patents in the areas of OCT, OCT angiography, mobile health testing, tissue engineering, and laser surgery. He has been the principal investigator of 5 NIH research grants in the past two decades.

He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles with over 40,000 citations. Dr. Huang has received the Champalimaud Vision Award, the Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology, the Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the Visionary Award from the Greenberg Prize to End Blindness. He is a cofounder of Gobiquity, maker of the GoCheck Kids app that has screened more than 2 million preschool children for amblyopia risk factors.

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Terms of Appointment: May 2021 - Apr 2023

Updated on May 06, 2021