Yali Jia

Yali Jia is a High Senior Professor at Oregon Health & Science University, specializing in ophthalmology and medical optical imaging. Her research centers on optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA), with a focus on retinal disease characterization, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and ocular inflammatory conditions. Her recent work introduces automated segmentation of retinal hyperreflective foci, volumetric Henle fiber layer analysis, and ultrawide-field nonperfusion quantification. Jia has pioneered 100-degree non-contact visible-light OCT for in vivo mouse imaging and contributed to an eyecare foundation model validated in a randomized controlled trial published in *Nature Medicine*. Her research integrates advanced imaging technology with clinical translation, advancing noninvasive diagnostics for retinal and systemic vascular diseases.