Visi Health at the Penn Health-Tech Accelerator Demo Day Pitch Competition
The Visi Health team was selected to present at the Penn Health-Tech Accelerator (HTA) Demo Day Pitch Competition, where teams showcased innovative health technology solutions developed through the accelerator program. On June 11, Dr. Lama Al-Aswad presented Visi Health’s telemedicine-enabled ocular imaging device, highlighting its potential to expand access to high-quality eye care beyond traditional ophthalmology settings.
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Please welcome Andrea McCord, the Scheie Eye Institute in MOTION Mobile Unit Manager. She received her Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Temple University and Master of Public Health with a concentration in Community Health and Prevention from Drexel University. She has worked in public health research and community health programming such as HIV prevention and breast and cervical cancer screening for ten years. Working with Scheie in MOTION and the OPTIC lab is giving her a blend of her love of direct service to the community and contributing to the research knowledge base that will hopefully lead to…
Isabelle Deng joined the OPTIC Lab as its Lab Manager and Clinical Research Coordinator this May. She studied Biostatistics at Cornell University before working as a Data Science Project Manager at Epic Systems, where she led enterprise-level data engineering, predictive analytics, and business intelligence projects. She's excited to work with the lab at the intersection of clinical innovation and data science as she prepares to pursue a career in medicine. In her free time, she loves painting, hiking, and petting stray cats (in an attempt to fill the hole left by her own cat Molly, who is alive and well back…
Please welcome Alan Dogan as our new Ophthalmology Innovation Fellow of 2027! Alan is a physician and biomedical engineer who earned his MD from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. His work centres on translational healthcare technologies, clinical research and medical device innovation — with experience spanning ophthalmic imaging, respiratory monitoring and drug delivery. In his free time, he enjoys hiking and playing tennis. 
WenWen Si and Jason Dai's research, showcased at the 2026 Scheie Anniversary Day, examines "conformal continuous-time decision transformers for coverage guaranteed sequential glaucoma medication recommendations".