Michael F. Chiang is Director of the National Eye Institute, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. By background, he is a pediatric ophthalmologist and is also board-certified in clinical informatics. His research focuses on the interface of biomedical informatics and clinical ophthalmology in areas such as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), telehealth, artificial intelligence, electronic health records, data science, and genotype-phenotype correlation. He is an Adjunct Investigator at the National Library of Medicine, and his group has published over 275 peer-reviewed papers and developed an assistive artificial intelligence system for ROP that received Breakthrough Status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Chiang began at NIH in November 2020. He serves as Chair of multiple NIH-wide committees and working groups involving data science, imaging, health equity, and clinical research. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.