Ranya Habash, MD

Ranya Habash, MD, is a faculty instructor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the CEO of LifeLong Vision Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). She was recently appointed Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the American-European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgery (AECOS).

Dr. Habash received her Doctor of Medicine from West Virginia University and pursued her ophthalmology residency at Texas Tech University. Subsequently, she joined the faculty at the Bascome Palmer Eye Institute, where she was the Medical Director of Technology Innovation. Later, she also joined the Stanford University School of Medicine faculty and received a Master of Clinical Informatics Management from there.

Combining her unique clinical, tech, and product backgrounds, Habash joined Microsoft’s healthcare team to lead a global machine learning project between Microsoft and Bascom Palmer, delivering a multi-disease retinal algorithm to automate diagnosis and treatment of eye conditions.

As program manager for Microsoft, she worked to build a global collaborative network for data sharing and digital health collaboration. Her latest research focuses on brain-computer interface technology for the diagnosis and treatment of multiple ophthalmic and neurologic conditions. These extraordinary experiences fuel her strategy for LifeLong Vision SPAC and the impact she hopes to make on healthcare.