Michael Goldbaum received the M.D. degree in 1965 from Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, an ophthalmology certificate in 1969 from the U.S. Navy, and a Retina Fellowship certificate in 1972 from Cornell University, New York Hospital, Ithaca. In addition, he received the M.S. degree in medical informatics from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, in 1988.

He taught ophthalmology at the University of Illinois, Urbana, from 1973 to 1976 and began teaching ophthalmology at the University of California at San Diego in 1977. Dr. Goldbaum is currently a Professor of Ophthalmology in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego. Respected worldwide, he has been a visiting Professor at universities in China, Paraguay, Italy, Ukraine as well as Stanford University and Columbia in the US.

His research interests are image understanding applied to ophthalmic images, Bayesian nets for inferencing about ophthalmic images, and machine-learning classification to improve diagnosis and prediction for glaucoma.

He is currently a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Associations of Artificial Intelligence, for the Advancement of Science, for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the American Medical Association where he served on the program and long range planning committees. Dr. Goldbaum was awarded a Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2001 and elected to America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals in 2002.