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Nearly 40 Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and trainees from our affiliates—including Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Mass. Eye and Ear, and VA Boston Healthcare System—participated in the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting October 11-15 in San...

Mass. Eye and Ear postdoctoral research fellow Caitlin Collin, PhD, was awarded a Career Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. The grant will provide $70,000 of support for Dr. Collin’s research on the development of gene editing approaches for ABCA4-associated Stargardt disease...

Dan Gong, MD, has been honored with the 2020 Robert Brockhurst Academic Development Award. This award provides essential support to clinical or research retina fellows by enabling them to attend and present at national conferences. Dr. Gong, who previously served as Ophthalmology Chief Resident at...

Zhengping (Ping) Hu, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, was awarded a Competitive Renewal Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.The grant will provide $70,000 of support for Dr. Hu’s research on endomucin as a potential...

Elizabeth (Lizzy) Rossin, MD, PhD, is one of three recipients of the 2020-2021 Ronald G. Michels Fellowship Foundation Award. This prestigious award, which provides monetary support, is given to exceptional second-year vitreoretinal surgery fellows in the United States after a rigorous and...

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD , Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Chief of Ophthalmology Clinical Research and Associate Director of the Howe Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, is the 2018 recipient of the Dr. David L. Epstein Award, an honor given...

Suzanne K. Freitag, MD, has been named Editor-in-Chief of Orbit, the International Journal on Orbital Disorders, Oculoplastic and Lacrimal Surgery, as of January 1, 2018. Dr. Freitag joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 2011, and serves as the Director of the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery...

Dean Cestari, MD , Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Director of Ophthalmology Clinical Fellowship Training at Mass. Eye and Ear, and Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH , Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at HMS, were both selected to receive the prestigious HMS...

The Harvard Ophthalmology Mentoring Program has been recognized with the 2019 Program Award for a Culture of Excellence in Mentoring (PACEM) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This award was established to recognize departments, divisions, offices or programs for their efforts to foster innovation and...

Daisy Shu, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, is the recipient of a 2019 Fight for Sight Post-Doctoral Award. This grant award provides $22,500 in funding to individuals with a doctorate who are interested in academic careers in basic or...