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Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, has been appointed Chief of the Departments of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Mass Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and as Chair of OHNS at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Varvares, a head and neck cancer surgeon and the John W...

Internationally recognized for her work in both diabetic retinopathy and uveitis, Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, was promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical school (effective May 1, 2021). Earlier this month, Dr. Sobrin was also named the next incumbent of the Charles Edward Whitten...

Courtney L. Ondeck , MD, MPhil, Instructor in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, was selected for the 2021 Mass Eye and Ear Fellowship Award, part of the Eleanor and Miles Shore Faculty Development Program at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Established in 1995, this program seeks to support the...

Karen Wai, MD, and Sila Bal, MD, MPH, both PGY-4 ophthalmology residents, placed first and second, respectively, in the New England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS) annual Hecht poster contest for residents and fellows. Dr. Wai was awarded first prize for her poster, "Contrast sensitivity function in...

Matthew G. Crowson, MD, an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and an ENT surgeon in the Otology and Neurotology Division at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently appointed a Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Research Training (BIRT) Fellow at Harvard...

Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE, Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and director of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgical Division at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently elected president of the International Thyroid Oncology Group (ITOG). The...

We are excited to share a new preprint, " Protein-coding repeat polymorphisms strongly shape diverse human phenotypes" (Mukamel*, Handsaker* et al.), which finds that some of the largest effects of common genetic variants on human phenotypes arise from variable-number-of-tandem-repeat (VNTR)...

Brian Ballios, MD, PhD, an inherited retinal degenerations fellow at Mass Eye and Ear, and Tatiana Perepelkina, MD, a pediatric medical retina fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, are both recipients of the 2020 VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research award, which will provide funding for their...

Yohei Tomita, MD, PhD, a research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, is a recipient of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society’s Young Investigator Award. This award will support Dr. Tomita's research project “Petinal pathological neovascularization by Increasing FGF21 level in an aurine oxygen...

Aparna Raghuram, OD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and an Optometrist at Boston Children’s Hospital, is the recipient of the 2021 American Academy of Optometry’s Career Development Award. This grant award provides $100,000 over two years to fund Dr. Raghuram's...