About Dr. Woodward

I am a physician-scientist focused on creating and utilizing low-cost strategies to improve the care of patients with anterior eye diseases. My career goal is to dramatically extend high-quality, affordable eye care to underserved communities nationally and globally. My laboratory’s low-cost strategies, novel deep-learning algorithms, and decision-aid tools help clinicians to personalize treatments. I am the Kellogg Eye Center service lead for the Cornea, External Disease, and Refractive Section, the strategic director of the University of Michigan’s Kellogg Eye Center eHealth team, and director of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Ann Arbor’s telemedicine eye screening program. I serve on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Health Policy committee, the AAO task force on Eye Care and Community Health centers (lead), the AAO Council, and the Cornea Society board of directors. I formerly served on the AAO Research, Regulatory & External Scientific Relations Committee and its Telemedicine Task Force among other committees. I collaborate with national and international leaders in cornea, health sciences, telemedicine and engineering, including close collaboration with Aravind Eye Hospitals in India. I also have longstanding clinical research collaborations with top experts on microbial keratitis (corneal ulcers).