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The Boston Echo Course: Interactive Hands-on, 3-D Workshop

Our Interactive Hands-On 3D Workshop is offered three times a year, with upcoming courses in March and August 2016. It is the only hands-on 3D imaging workshop in the country, with a chance to learn and practice 3D imaging with real equipment. See attached flyer for details

Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, Receives Kersley Medal

Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, received the Kersley Medal from the British Ocular Surface Society, and delivered an associated lectureship entitled "Ocular surface inflammation - lab to bedside" at the Society's 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting in London on December 4, 2015.

Anders M. Näär, PhD, Receives RPB Award

Anders M. Näär, PhD, Harvard Medical School Professor of Cell Biology, received Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein Innovation Award in the amount of $300,000 over two years. This award is given to researchers outside of the Department of Ophthalmology (but within HMS) with a common goal of...

Grants Received September and October 2015

Petr Baranov, MD, received the Alice Adler Award of $30,000 over one year from Harvard Medical School for his project, "High-throughput screening assay to identify photoreceptor pre-survival molecules." Together with Patricia D'Amore, PhD, MBA, he also received $60,000 over one year from Mass. Lions...

The S-Stamp Eliminates the Primary Cause of Graft Failure in DMEK

Peter Veldman, MD, of Mass. Eye and Ear was first author on two recent publications related to the S-stamp for Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK), a novel orientation technique that has to date eliminated upside-down graft implantation in DMEK. Dr. Veldman helped to validate and then...

Faculty Visit to Haiti

The Office of Global Surgery and Health recently coordinated the second faculty visit to Haiti State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince to work with the residency program there. Roberto Pineda II, MD, and Shizuo Mukai, MD, returned after their initial faculty visit in June 2015. The focus of this...

Scientists Discover New Properties of Microbes That Cause Common Eye Infection

Findings described in Nature Communications BOSTON, MASS. – Scientists from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology have used the power of new genomic technology to discover that microbes that commonly infect the eye have special, previously unknown properties...

Mass. Eye and Ear Brings Femtosecond Laser Technology to Boston

Mass. Eye and Ear Brings Cutting-edge Femtosecond Laser Technology to Boston-area Patients Another option for cataract surgery Contact: Mary Leach BOSTON, MASS. – Patients choosing cataract surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear may now elect to have laser-assisted cataract surgery with the...

SNMA Region VII T-shirt Fundraiser

What: SNMA Region 7 T-shirt Fundraiser When: Deadline to order is February 25 How: This link → https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PKWSBHK (If you fill out the survey, you will be contacted regarding how to pay.) Why: To support SNMA... and because you can never have too many humorous medical t-shirts