Ep 062 - Pediatric Ophthalmology with Dr. Michael Abrams

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Dr. Michael Abrams


Dr. Abrams is a pediatric ophthalmologist currently on sabbatical
to work as CEO of FreeLinc Technologies (www.freelinc.com) in
Sherborn, Massachusetts.


Dr. Abrams completed his undergraduate degree at Haverford
College; his medical degree at a combined program at Dartmouth
and Brown Medical Schools; an ophthalmology residency at State
University of New York at Buffalo; and then a fellowship in
pediatric ophthalmology at Children’s Hospital of Detroit.


Over his career, Dr. Abrams has served as a General Medical
Officer and Battalion Surgeon in the U.S. Army, spent 16 years in
private practice as a pediatric ophthalmologist, and regularly
published his research in peer review journals during this time.
 He is a volunteer faculty member for ORBIS international,
and has a specific interest in Connected Health and in
establishing distributive educational hierarchies in evolving
medical systems. He has served on numerous boards, including the
Children’s Eye Foundation (www.childrenseyefoundation.org), and
the Utah Medical Insurance Association (www.umia.com), where he
helped to guide a $150 million merger and acquisition.  In
2013, Dr. Abrams took a sabbatical from clinical medicine to take
the top job at FreeLinc, a research and development company
focused on the adoption of Near Field Magnetic Induction (NFMI)
as a new wireless communication standard to be used with their
proprietary wireless body area network technology that hopes to
revolutionize Connected Health.


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