Dr. Samer Al-Diri
Ophthalmologist & Strategic Healthcare Consultant
PUBLIC HEALTH | HEALTHCARE AI GOVERNANCE | HEALTH SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION
Flagship Reference Publications
Amblyopia as a Preventable Public Health Failure: Childhood Vision Screening, AI-Enabled Pathways, and the Future of Preventive Eye Care
Amblyopia is reframed as a preventable childhood vision pathway failure when screening is not connected to diagnosis, spectacle access, treatment support, family activation, follow-up, and protected functional vision. This flagship reference article explores childhood vision screening, AI-enabled pathways, and preventive eye care through a public-health and health-system framework.
Building Resilient Health Systems: A Healthcare Management Framework for Governance, Workforce Readiness and Digital Transformation
This flagship article presents resilient health systems as a healthcare management challenge involving governance, workforce readiness, digital transformation, operational continuity, quality, supply-chain resilience, and public trust. It introduces Dr. Samer Al-Diri’s Resilient Health Systems Framework for leaders seeking to protect essential services and strengthen sustainable health-system performance.
AI in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: The Breakthrough Is the Care Pathway, Not Just the Algorithm
This article explains why AI in diabetic retinopathy screening should be judged by its ability to improve the full care pathway, not only by algorithm accuracy. It highlights how AI-assisted screening can support referral uptake, faster communication, coordinated follow-up, and safer screening-to-treatment pathways for people with diabetes. The article positions diabetic retinopathy AI as a health-system redesign tool for ophthalmology, diabetes care, public health, and digital health governance.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Population Ageing, Health-System Impact, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Sustainable Vision Care
This flagship reference publication examines age-related macular degeneration as a growing clinical, public-health, ageing-society, and health-system challenge. It connects population ageing, retinal disease burden, treatment sustainability, geographic atrophy innovation, artificial intelligence, workforce capacity, and lifelong vision care. The article introduces Dr. Samer Al-Diri’s Sustainable Vision Care Framework for retina specialists, policymakers, healthcare executives, public-health leaders, and AI-health stakeholders.