DR. PURI

It gives me a great pleasure to be on board the journey into the era of technology driven healthcare. After practicing Ophthalmology for over 35 years, training artificial intelligence (AI) models and making them work like me, is very exciting. Though, at present, many of these are in silos, I look forward to integrating them into a streamlined workflow for helping the clinicians. I am sure, as time goes by, intelligent machines would become the best buddies for doctors to work with... In the first innings of my career, I was fortunate to be amongst the pioneers of Intraocular Lens implantation and phacoemulsification for cataract surgery, way back in late 80's and early 90's, and Lasek for refractive surgery in 2001. Then came a paradigm shift of skills being transferred from doctors to machines. The surgeons of course, had to learn how to operate such machines. The result was good for the patients because surgeries became safer, and more and more doctors could give very good..