Dr. Pearse Keane

Biography

Pearse Keane is a Professor of Artificial Medical Intelligence at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Director of the INSIGHT health data research hub programme at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In 2020, Pearse was funded as a UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellow, and in 2023, he became a Senior Investigator with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Originally from Ireland, he graduated with a medical degree from University College Dublin (UCD) in 2002. In 2016, he initiated a collaboration between Moorfields Eye Hospital and Google DeepMind to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for the detection and treatment of retinal disease. The outcomes of this collaboration were published in the journal Nature Medicine in August 2018. In 2020, he co-led a project that developed an early warning system for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in many countries, which was also published in Nature Medicine. In 2023, he led the development of RETFound, a foundation model in ophthalmology that was made available as open source. Pearse leads a multi-disciplinary research group of clinician-scientists at UCL Moorfields focused on the development and implementation of AI systems in healthcare.

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