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Alice Lorch Receives Grant for Diabetic Retinopathy Screenings 

Alice Lorch, MD, MPH, director of the Harvard Ophthalmology residency training program, received a $30,000 grant from the Mass General Hospital Executive Committee on Community Health to fund a community-based retinal screening program for diabetic retinopathy at the MGH Chelsea Health Center. The...

Faculty Represent Harvard at the 2019 AAO-HNS Annual Meeting

Faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School had an excellent representation in New Orleans, Louisiana at the 123rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) earlier this month. The annual gathering of...

Talking to your doctor about your LGBTQ+ sex life

Cecil R. Webster, Jr., MDGenerally speaking, discussing what happens in our bedrooms outside of the bedroom can be anxiety-provoking. Let’s try to make your doctor’s office an exception. Why is this important? People in the LGBTQ+ community contend not only with a full range of health needs, but...

Combating Bullying at School for LGBTQ Youth

This special four-part podcast series features Harvard Catalyst pilot grant awardees and their community partners as they share the fascinating stories and insights behind their innovative research in LGBTQ health, including bullying, state laws, and healthcare delivery. Listen to: Sari Reisner, ScD...

Clonal mosaicism work featured on NIH Director's Blog

Our work using computational techniques to explore mosaic copy-number mutations found in small fractions of cells was featured on the NIH Director's Blog: " Finding New Genetic Mutations Amid Healthy Cells"

I am MGH: Transgender Care

At Massachusetts General Hospital, we are not only caregivers, support staff and researchers – we are leaders, advocates and allies. In this installment of the “I am MGH” video series, members of the MGH community share their roles in creating a more welcoming and affirming environment for...

Merriam-Webster declares 'they' its 2019 word of the year

A common but increasingly mighty and very busy little word, “they,” has an accolade all its own. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based on a 313% increase in look-ups on the company's search site, Merriam-Webster.com, this year when...

Dr. Ravindra Uppaluri Awarded $4.3M Cancer Moonshot Grant from NCI/NIDCR

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, who is also Chief of the Division of Otolaryngology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), received a $4.3 million U01 Cancer Moonshot grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the...