Dr. David Huang is the Associate Director and Director of Research at the Casey Eye Institute, the Wold Family Endowed Chair in Ophthalmic Imaging, Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University.  

Dr. Huang is known for his innovations in applying laser and optical technology to eye diseases. He is a co-inventor of optical coherence tomography (OCT), which is a commonly used ophthalmic imaging technology at 40 million procedures per year. His seminal article on optical coherence tomography, published in Science in 1991, has been cited more than 18,000 times. Dr. Huang has 42 U.S. patents in the areas of OCT, OCT angiography, mobile health testing, tissue engineering, and laser surgery. He has been the principal investigator of 6 National Institutes of Health research grants in the over two decades, published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles with over 60,000 citations, and has edited 12 books. Since the invention of OCT, Dr. Huang has contributed to the development of polarization-sensitive OCT, swept-source OCT, anterior eye OCT, Doppler OCT, and OCT angiography technologies, and continues to pioneer new applications for these technologies in anterior eye diseases, glaucoma, and retinal diseases. 

Dr. Huang leads the Center for Ophthalmic Optics and Lasers. He is a founder of GoCheck, the maker of the GoCheck Kids smartphone app that has screened over 5 million children for amblyopia risk factors. He is the founding president of the International Ocular Circulation Society.

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