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Dr. Hope Ricciotti is the Chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Ricciotti is the Co-Chair of the Resident...

Key Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings 5 Promote use of eye shields on the scene for patients with potential eye injuries Maintain reliable communications Deepen the ophthalmology call algorithm Integrate ophthalmology services into trauma teams and maintain a voice in hospital-wide...

In the 1990s, the 2014 Champalimaud Award Laureates worked in parallel and in collaboration to identify vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as the major trigger for angiogenesis in the eye. In 1993, they showed that the human retina synthesizes VEGF, and subsequently demonstrated that VEGF...

2014 António Champalimaud Laureates: Joan W. Miller, MD, FARVO, Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD, Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, FARVO, Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, George L. King, MD, Anthony P. Adamis, MD; and Napoleone Ferrara, MD Dear Colleagues, In September, several Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical...

Dear Colleagues, Nearly five million people in the world are blind from corneal disease in both eyes, and millions more have corneal blindness in one eye. For some people, conventional corneal transplantation is a successful and life-changing intervention. Many others, however, suffer multiple...