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Faculty Take the Podium at the 2018 AAO-HNS Annual Meeting

Faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School had an excellent representation in Atlanta, Georgia at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) earlier this month. There were more than 90 outstanding presentations by our...

Harnessing the "Alcohol Effect" for Spasmodic Dysphonia

New research findings from a study led by Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD, Dr med, show the potential of a new oral drug for spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder affecting the muscles of the larynx or voice box. The work was published last week in Scientific Reports. The study shows that sodium...

Harvard Med School Slams Trump Admin Proposal to Define Gender By Biological Sex

Harvard Medical School on Thursday slammed the Trump administration's reported plan to eliminate federal recognition of transgender, intersex, or gender non-binary individuals, calling the proposal “overly simplistic, medically inaccurate and antithetical to our values as healthcare providers.” Read...

20th Annual Boston Angiogenesis Meeting

On November 2, the 20th Annual Boston Angiogenesis Meeting (BAM) event attracted more than 100 faculty members and trainees from several Boston-area institutions to present, discuss, and network around their common interests in angiogenesis. Keynote speaker Nathan Lawson, PhD, a professor in the...

Academic Partnerships with China Continue

On September 2018, a Harvard Ophthalmology delegation traveled to China to meet with PriMed, Peking University Medical Hospital, and the Center of International Cooperation & Communication of Peking University Health Science Center. The meeting focused on discussing and building future...

The Labor of Representation

In college, a professor cautioned me that future patients would feel “much more comfortable” if I dressed and acted more “femininely.” One medical school interviewer found 4 different ways to ask if I thought it would be awkward to interact with female patients as a queer woman in obstetrics. A...

Say Hello to the New Harvard Otolaryngology Residents!

We are pleased to introduce the five medical students who matched in the Harvard Otolaryngology Residency Program this year. We hope that you will join us in welcoming them this June. We are thrilled with the results of the match and look forward to their arrival: Ryan Bartholomew 7-year research...