Mohamed Ashraf Elmasry

Mohamed Ashraf Elmasry is an Instructor in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and an ophthalmologist at the Beetham Eye Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, United States, and a Lecturer in Ophthalmology at the Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt. Dr. Elmasry earned an MBBCh, a master's degree and a PhD in ophthalmology at Alexandria University, holds the FRCOphth, and completed a retina clinical fellowship at the Beetham Eye Institute from 2017 to 2020. Research focuses on diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema, including ultrawide field imaging, handheld retinal imaging for screening, teleophthalmology, and machine learning to grade images and predict progression. Recent work with the Alexandria iCare Retina Reading Center in Egypt applies artificial intelligence to diabetic retinopathy screening and to triage in the reading center.