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Chronic misuse of alcohol results in measurable damage to the brain. Chronic drinking may be particularly damaging to the integrity of frontal white matter tracts, which can interfere with cognitive and inhibitory control that, in turn, is important to achieve and maintain abstinence. A new study...

Charles Osgood interviews Joseph Ciolino, MD, about treating glaucoma with a drug-eluting contact lens. Click here to listen (and for transcript). Related: Press release from Mass. Eye and Ear

The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) is hosting its 2015 annual meeting at the Sands Expo/Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada from November 14-17, 2015, with subspecialty days on November 13-14, 2015. Click here to view the HMS schedule for this event. Don't miss the Young Ophthalmologists Lounge...

Ziyad Knio, one of our Research Assistants is currently applying linear and logistic regression models to determine the relationship between postoperative outcomes and preoperative measures in cardiac surgery patients and assessed the predictive ability of risk factors.

Six members of the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology were highlighted in the December 2015 issue of Boston Magazine as "Top Doctors." Included in this list are Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, Joan W. Miller, MD, Joseph F. Rizzo III, MD, Ernest W. Kornmehl, MD, and Bradford J. Shingleton...

Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD, an international authority in retinal diseases and intraocular tumors, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Health Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on November 27, 2015, in recognition of his pioneering work in these areas. His early...

On October 7 th and 8 th, Jason Comander, MD, PhD, and Leo Kim, MD, PhD, participated in the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) Emerging Vision Scientists Program. This program allows scientists to meet with members of Congress to discuss the importance of vision research in the continuing...

After two years as a Research Fellow, Khurram will be commencing his clinical training as an intern at Mount Auburn Hospital before joining the BIDMC Anesthesia residency program next year. We wish him luck for his future endeavors!

More than 300 Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology faculty, alumni, and trainees gathered for a three-day festival of events that included the Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion, tours of Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute, a celebratory dinner, and visits to the...

Scott Greenstein, MD was quoted in an article for the Huffington Post about ways that certain ocular problems can be signs of underlying issues. For example, if the eyelids are unable to close, this may be a symptom of facial nerve paralysis, which can be a feature of Lyme Disease. Additionally...