Ophthalmic World Leaders

Chief Medical Officer
Topcon Healthcare

Daniela Ferrara, MD, PhD, FASRS is an ophthalmologist and retina specialist with 25 years of experience in clinical science, advanced medical imaging, and drug development.  She is the Chief Medical Officer for Topcon Healthcare, a worldwide leading digital health company that is applying artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions on ophthalmic imaging to enable earlier detection and better management of retinal and systemic diseases.  In her role, Dr. Ferrara leads the Topcon Healthcare Innovation Center, a global organization that brings together experts from industry and academia for algorithm development of new AI-powered health technologies, leveraging clinical trials and real-world data.  Prior to her role at Topcon, Dr. Ferrara led clinical science at Genentech and Roche for drug development, focusing on the main causes of blindness due to retinal diseases and implementing AI-based solutions for pharma clinical trials.

Dr. Ferrara is faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine, and a founding member of the Boston Imaging Reading Center.  She is affiliated with several medical and scientific organizations, holding leadership positions, committed to education and knowledge sharing across her field.  Dr. Ferrara had authored more than one hundred peer-review publications in top teer journals and book chapters and is a world-renowned speaker on international conferences in her scientific field.