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Managing Patient Expectations

With the expanded selection of presbyopia correcting IOLs, it is crucial to educate patients about potential risks and help manage their expectations. Some patients may still need to wear spectacles post operatively for certain conditions, such as reading fine print or night driving. Patients who...

Risk Factors and Referrals

Risk Factors In general, cataract surgery is extremely successful, and patients are satisfied with the outcome, especially if they have been counseled on what to expect. Occasionally, residual refractive error may require a secondary procedure (such as a laser vision correction enhancement) or...

Mengyu Wang, PhD, Receives International Research Collaborators Award

Mengyu Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Harvard Ophthalmology Artificial Intelligence Lab, is a recipient of the Research to Prevent Blindness International Research Collaborators Award. Dr. Wang has a longstanding interest in...

Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, Gift Honors Two Harvard Ophthalmology Alumni

In October 2022, Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, former cornea fellow at Mass Eye and Ear and research fellow at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, donated $100,000 to Mass Eye and Ear in honor of the research and life work of two Mass Eye and Ear cornea faculty who served as his mentors...

In Memoriam: Alice McPherson, MD

It is with heavy hearts that we announce that alumna Alice McPherson, MD, passed away peacefully at the age of 97 on January 16, 2023. A Professor of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. McPherson was the first full-time woman vitreoretinal surgeon in the world and a towering figure in...

Zhengping Hu, MD, PhD, Receives Young Investigator Research Excellence Award

Zhengping (Ping) Hu, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, was recognized with a Young Investigator Outstanding Research Award at the Pathobiology for Investigators, Students, and Academicians 2022 Young Investigator Virtual Meeting...

Faculty Receive MGH Mentoring Awards

David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and John B. Miller, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, were recently recognized with Excellence in Mentoring Awards from the Center for Faculty Development Mass General Hospital...

Mass Eye and Ear scientists attend ARO Mid-Winter Meeting

A cohort of investigators from the Department of OHNS travelled to Orlando, FL, for the 46th annual Mid-Winter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO). ARO is the largest organization of hearing, speech and balance researchers in the world. Principle investigators, trainees...

2021 Empower Conference

Empower: A Symposium on Underrepresented Voices in Medicine is geared toward pre-medical students at all stages who are historically underrepresented in medicine (e.g. Black, Latinx, American Indian, Alaskan and Hawaiian Natives), LGBTQIA+, and first-generation low-income pre-medical students. The...