School of Optometry 45th Anniversary Research Seminar on From Med Device Research to Entrepreneurship: How the Stanford Biodesign Process Help

Professor Chang is a medical innovator at Stanford University since 2009. He is a funded clinician scientist leading a collaborative data science lab organizing Stanford’s Glaucoma Registry and Biorepository. His team is looking for new disease biomarkers in the aqueous and developing multimodal predictive analytics from electronic record and imaging data. He is well-known for his expertise in traditional and cutting-edge minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) as well as presbyopia-correcting refractive and complex cataract surgery. Dr. Chang is the Stanford Glaucoma Fellowship Co-Director, Medical Director for Employer-Based Optometry, and hackathon bootcamp educator in medical entrepreneurship covering design thinking to implementation science. One of his early licensed co-inventions was the first universal smartphone adaptor to take pictures of the front and back of the eye. After completing the Stanford Biodesign Faculty Fellowship, he co-founded a seed-funded digital health startup which brought an air pollution wearable from idea to market. His latest venture is an online durable medical equipment (DME) startup.