{"id":211190,"date":"2026-05-08T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/lee-installed-as-inaugural-stickle-professor-the-source\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:30:13","slug":"lee-installed-as-inaugural-stickle-professor-the-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/lee-installed-as-inaugural-stickle-professor-the-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee installed as inaugural Stickle professor &#8211; The Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/2026\/05\/lee-installed-as-inaugural-stickle-professor\/\">Lee installed as inaugural Stickle professor &#8211; The Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/2026\/05\/lee-installed-as-inaugural-stickle-professor\/\">https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/2026\/05\/lee-installed-as-inaugural-stickle-professor\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 11:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"source.washu.edu\">source.washu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaron Y. Lee, MD has been installed as the inaugural Arthur W. Stickle Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU Medicine).<\/li>\n<li>He is recognized for his significant contributions to applying artificial intelligence (AI) to ophthalmology research and patient care, and is head of WashU Medicine\u2019s Department of Ophthalmology &amp; Visual Sciences.<\/li>\n<li>The professorship, established in honor of pediatric ophthalmologist Arthur W. Stickle and his wife Emily, aims to advance vision research and patient care through innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Lee previously served at the University of Washington in Seattle and has pioneered the application of deep learning in ophthalmic imaging, enhancing AI models for retinal disease detection.<\/li>\n<li>His recent research includes using data-driven methods to identify genetic factors influencing retinal diseases and developing novel severity scores for certain retinal conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Lee plays a crucial role in standardizing ocular imaging (DICOM standards) and in nonprofit collaborations focused on macular degeneration research.<\/li>\n<li>He has contributed to creating regulatory frameworks for machine learning tools in healthcare and is leading significant AI research projects, including with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<\/li>\n<li>Arthur and Emily Stickle\u2019s legacy supports ophthalmology through educational lectures and various volunteering contributions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee installed as inaugural Stickle professor &#8211; The Source https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/2026\/05\/lee-installed-as-inaugural-stickle-professor\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-08 11:21:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/app\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Aaron-Lee-photo1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211192,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211190\/revisions\/211192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}