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Harvard Ophthalmology hosted its Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion on June 8-9. The CME-accredited event featured faculty and alumni lectures, award presentations, a poster contest, networking opportunities, and much more. Below are some of the highlights. Mariana Mead Lecture During the Annual...

More than 50 physicians and dentists gathered at Massachusetts Eye and Ear last weekend for the Harvard Snoring and Sleep Disordered Breathing: Evaluation and Management course. Held biennially, this continuing medical education (CME) course offers a comprehensive review of recent advances in the...

Dr. Yvonne Gomez-Carrion has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2018 recipient of the Society’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Award, an honor recognizing an individual who has made outstanding contributions to LGBT health. Dr. Gomez-Carrion, a Newton resident...

New research shows that immune cells developed from early exposure to bacteria contribute to vision loss in glaucoma patients. A research team from Harvard Ophthalmology and MIT has shown that immune cells in the eye that developed in response to early exposure to bacteria are a key contributor to...

Researchers have developed a potential new strategy for improving outcomes in corneal transplant surgeries by injecting vasoactive intestinal peptide into the eye. A new study led by Harvard Ophthalmology faculty reports for the first time that injection of the neuropeptide vasoactive intestinal...

For over 40 years, Tourette Association has led the way in research and therapeutic development for Tourette Syndrome and other Tic Disorders. It has provided more than $20 million in grants to fund research and have developed medical programs to meet the needs of those affected by Tourette and Tic...

Rosario Fernandez-Godino, PhD, MSc, has been selected to receive the BrightFocus Foundation Award. The award, presented by the foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research Program to investigators who have generated promising preliminary data on potential treatments for macular degeneration, will...

By: Michael GirouardMD/MBA Candidate Class of 2020Harvard Medical School & Harvard Business School Opioid use disorder (OUD) has reached alarming rates in the United States. As a clerkship student rotating through the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (a Harvard teaching affiliate), I was struck by how...

Artur Indzhykulian, MD, PhD, and Anne Takesian, PhD, of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass. Eye and Ear and both Assistant Professors of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medcial School, have both received Bertarelli Collaborative Research Awards within the Bertarelli Program in Translational...

Po-Ru Loh will be speaking about haplotype phasing and mosaic chromosomal alterations at 23andMe (Thu 10/11), ASHG 2018 (Wed 10/17, platform talk #17 at 9am), and Michigan (Tue 10/23).