Chief Resident Grayson Armstrong and 2021-22 Chief Resident Margot Weinert have spearheaded the development of a weekly virtual cataract surgical training curriculum. Each week, they tackle a topic in cataract surgery by putting together readings and videos online. The week culminates in a Zoom case...
Last weekend, Dr. Konstantina Stankovic, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, was one of seven speakers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) 2018 Technology Day symposium. The program focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, wondering if we can truly design...
Pictured above: Retinal microglia (green) and the retinal vasculature (magenta). Photo credit: Dong-Ho Park, M.D., Connor Lab. A research team at Massachusetts Eye and Ear has shown that microglia, the primary immune cells of the brain and retina, play a protective role in response to retinal...
Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School gathered in the Meltzer Auditorium at Massachusetts Eye and Ear on Friday, June 22, to celebrate the 2018 graduating class of residents and fellows. Four chief residents and 13 clinical fellows graduated from the...
Our work on mosaic chromosomal alterations in the UK Biobank N=150K interim release has been published in Nature! This study used long-range haplotype phasing information to detect mosaicism in blood at very low clonal fractions (down to ~1%), producing an atlas of 8,342 mosaic events. The...
Dr. Gerald Healy has been selected to be a member of the first class of the Master Surgeon Educators of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). According to the ACS website, the aim of the new ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators is to "recognize and assemble a cadre of master surgeon educators...
In response to the current events of anti-black police violence and other forms of racism, Harvard WGS faculty have compiled a list of recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary formations of racism from a perspective that integrates analysis of race with that of gender and...