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Doctor's at Boston Children's Hospital are now prescribing a virtual reality device to treat children with amblyopia. Th e device, available to just a handful of U.S. pediatric practices, allows children to watch videos as a means of receiving treatment. This treatment option can be used in selected...

Jennifer K. Sun, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, has been selected to participate in the Association for University Professors in Ophthalmology (AUPO) Academic Leadership Development Program. This program, established in 2020, is designed to enhance the professional development of...

Congratulations to the following Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and alumni who were each recognized as one of "Boston's Top Doctors 2023" by Boston magazine. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Mark C. Kuperwaser, MD Boston Children's Hospital Linda R. Dagi, MD Gena Heidary, MD, PhD David G. Hunter...

On August 27th, the HMPA book club is discussing books that are coming along next year. Regardless of interest, we welcome anyone looking for some casual conversations and meet new people. You are still more than welcome if you would like to have a say on the selection among the books we offer and...

We're very excited to share our ongoing work at ASHG this October! Alison Barton and Margaux Hujoel will present platform talks on penetrance of disease variants and CNV associations in UK Biobank, Maxwell Sherman will present a plenary talk on somatic mutations in cancer, and Ronen Mukamel will...

For the second consecutive year, the Harvard Combined Program in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) was voted the top OHNS residency program in the nation by Residency Navigator from Doximity. Doximity determined its 2021-2022 rankings from a survey of over 30,000 U.S. physicians. The...

A key foundation partner to Harvard Ophthalmology, the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund (MLERF) has selected several faculty to receive research awards. For academic year 2021-22, MLERF will provide $420,000 in funding to support innovative research projects across our affiliates. Beetham Eye...

M. Charles Liberman, PhD, director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently awarded the James B. Snow Jr., MD, Tinnitus Research Award for his outstanding contributions to advancing tinnitus research. Named in honor of James B. Snow, Jr., MD, the first director of the...

Harvard Medical School Instructor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Regan Bergmark, MD, FARS, who is also an Associate Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, was selected as the 2021 H. Richard Nesson Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her project, “Disparities in Timely Access to...

Effective July 1, 2021, Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, will serve as the next incumbent of the Solman and Libe Friedman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. This professorship was created in 2011 to honor the parents of Ephraim Friedman, MD, a former retina specialist and researcher in...