BIOGRAPHY Endre A. Balazs, MD, was a world leader in ophthalmic biochemistry and also a developer of products that have become extremely important and widely used in eye surgery. Among many...
President of Schepens Eye Research Institute, 1995 - 2004
"The Father of Modern Ocular Immunology"
BIOGRAPHY Dr. Streilein, a noted immunologist, shaped a renewed research mission that brought the entire spectrum of the biological sciences to bear on vision research. He served as the Charles L...
BIOGRAPHY Dr. Ephraim Friedman, ophthalmologist and past President of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, passed away on June 18, 2011. He was a friend to many within the Harvard Ophthalmology community, a...
An international leader in eye pathology and the former Chair of Harvard Ophthalmology and Chief of Mass Eye and Ear Department of Ophthalmology, the late Dr. Jakobiec made many seminal...
BIOGRAPHY Paul A. Chandler was the beloved mentor of generations of ophthalmologists interested in glaucoma. He completed his medical training and residency in ophthalmology at Harvard Medical...
Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, 1955-1973
BIOGRAPHY Dr. Cogan was born on February 14, 1908, in Fall River, Massachusetts. He received his BA from Dartmouth, his MD from Harvard Medical School, and completed an ophthalmology residency at...
First Chair of the HMS Department of Ophthalmology, 1871-1891
BIOGRAPHY Henry Willard Williams was born December 11, 1821 in Boston, Massachusetts to Willard and Elizabeth Osgood Williams, and attended both the Boston Latin School and Salem Latin School. He...
BIOGRAPHY As a young navy doctor in 1961, Dr. Judah Folkman noticed that tumors needed blood vessels to grow. Ten years later, Folkman published a controversial theory that is now widely accepted...
BIOGRAPHY Charles L. Schepens was born in Belgium in 1912, and originally studied mathematics at university before turning his interests to medicine. He received his medical degree in 1935 from the...
BIOGRAPHY After nearly 50 years working and studying at Mass. Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Langston retired at the end of June 2015. A graduate of Cornell University Medical College...
Paul Austin Chandler Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology (2011 – 2016); Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology (2006 – 2011)
"The Gaon of Neuro-Ophthalmology"
BIOGRAPHY Born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at Amherst College, Dr. Lessell attended Cornell Medical College. His neurology residency at the University of Vermont first stimulated his interest...
