Dr. Ahmad Sedaghat, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship Program Award for Scholars in Medicine. Launched in 1996, the Shore Fellowship Program is designed to help junior faculty at the instructor or assistant professor level at Mass. Eye and Ear continue their academic pursuits at the same time that they're assuming increased family or other personal responsibilities.

Dr. Sedaghat is a fellowship-trained rhinologist with expertise and interest in inflammatory sinus diseases, including chronic rhinosinusitis. He received his medical degree and a doctorate in immunology from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Upon completion of medical school, Dr. Sedaghat chose to pursue a career in otolaryngology, specifically to care for patients with inflammatory sinus disease and to study the immunologic mechanisms of their disease. He completed his residency in otolaryngology and a clinical fellowship in rhinology and endoscopic skull base surgery at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School.

To date, he has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, including single-center and multi-center studies on allergy and chronic rhinosinusitis in both adults and children. The goal of Dr. Sedaghat’s research is to develop targeted therapies that will provide greater long-term control of—and possibly even cure—inflammatory sinus diseases, such as chronic rhinosinusitis, in order to maximize quality of life for patients while minimizing treatment side effects.