Dr. Soliz has over 25 years of technical and management background that includes programs spanning medical sensor development, human subject testing, and medical image and data analysis. He has developed and tested the performance of electro-optical imaging systems (scientific digital cameras), pattern recognition, image processing (fundus images) and software/hardware systems development. He has managed medical projects in collaboration with the University of New Mexico Health Science Center and School of Medicine since 1994 and with the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science since 1998. He has been a PI on projects with the University of Iowa, Joslin Diabetes Center, the US Army’s National Medical Test Bed, and The University of Wisconsin Dept. of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Soliz has applied state-of-the-art imaging technology in the development of computer-aided diagnostic systems for radiology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and ophthalmology. Much of the analytical and diagnostic algorithms have been incorporated into various research software packages. Through a National Eye Institute grant, Dr. Soliz has developed a number of ophthalmic devices: The Multispectral Fundus Imaging System captures up to multiple spectral images at selectable spectral bands; The Super-resolution spectral imager is based on adaptive optics technology; The hyperspectral fundus imager uses Fourier imaging spectrometer; a diffraction grating-based device has been tested for detecting LASIK corneas in our nation’s eye banks, and other advanced imaging systems.  He has been the PI on several large NEI grants in the past ten years.  He has also been the PI on a number of other non-NIH funded projects including one large grant from a pharmaceutical company.  He has served on two study groups at NIH that review grant applications.

Dr. Soliz is an adjunct assistant research professor at the University of Iowa, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and at the University of New Mexico, Department of Radiology.

He has over 20 peer-reviewed publications and 80 symposia/conference papers.