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Why Does Diversity in Medicine Matter?

Being a doctor takes more than technical expertise and knowledge. It requires empathy and humility, which are skills learned over a lifetime of diverse experiences. The perspectives we bring to the table have the potential to save lives, and that is why we choose to raise our voices for the sake of...

Event: Black Womxn in Medicine - Feb 17th, 2021

Wednesday, February 17 th from 7:45 – 8:45 PM EST Though SNMA dinners with physicians are on a temporary hiatus, we wanted to recreate the experience ~virtually~. Chat with Black womxn physicians from a variety of specialties regarding any and everything. No topics are off-limits! Feel free to...

HMPA Arts Initiative

HMPA would like to announce our new Arts Initiative: a collection of events and programming designed to celebrate the artistic side of our scientific researchers. Through our recent survey, TEA Times, and social media solicitations, we came to realize how talented our constituents are in areas...

Parenting Resources on our website!

Please check out our new parenting resources list on our website including information on lactation rooms and childcare costs: https://hmpa.hms.harvard.edu/parenting-1

Explain your research and scientific career to undergrads

The Harvard Amgen Scholars Program is seeking postdocs who would like to volunteer to explain their research and/or scientific career to the program students, a small cohort of 12 undergrads from diverse institutions across the US. For more information about what they are looking for, and possible...

Resident Ciersten Burks, MD Pens Commentary on Systemic Racism

No group has suffered more from the COVID-19 pandemic than Black and Latinx populations. Systemic racism, Ciersten Burks, MD says, is to blame. Sparked by the tragic murder of George Floyd last summer, Dr. Burks, a PGY-3 HMS OHNS resident from Indianapolis, Indiana, was published by the American...

Harvard OHNS Residents and Fellows Celebrate 2021 Graduation

Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) celebrated the 2021 graduating class of residents and fellows on Friday, June 11. Graduating residents and their immediate families were honored inside the Meltzer Auditorium at Mass Eye and...

Department Honors Dr. Sherleen Chen for Her Contributions to Education

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Sherleen Chen, MD, received this year's Simmons Lessell Excellence in Education Award. Presented during our clinical graduation ceremony on June 17, 2021, the award recognizes faculty who have made—and continue to make—sustained and profound contributions to...

Two talks and two posters at ProbGen 2021

Our lab attended the Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) 2021 virtual conference. Alison Barton and Maxwell Sherman spoke about their work on whole-exome imputation in UK Biobank (Alison) and deep-learning neutral somatic mutation rates in cancers (Max), and Margaux Hujoel and Ronen Mukamel...