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Before the anger and the divorce, before four tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, before the explosions and the pain, Staff Sgt. Daedan Jackson had been just a kid planning to go to school. t just sort of happened,” said Jackson, now 34, on joining the Army. His girlfriend at the time was in ROTC, and...

VA scientists have discovered signs of early aging in the brains of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans caught near roadside bomb explosions, even among those who felt nothing from the blast.Years after coming home from war, veterans are showing progressive damage to the brain's wiring, according to a...

Dr. Robina Matyal has been awarded a $100,000 research grant by the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research towards conducting her project titled Fundamentals of Ultrasound Course with Verification of Proficiency. Congratulations!

A hands-on training course has been started in the Echo Lab for the incoming Cardiology Fellows There will be total of 10 in-lab sessions over four weeks with TEE simulators followed by 3 sessions in the operating room during perioperative echocardiography The sessions are held from 5-6:30 pm in the...

Our new website goes live today. Please check back for regular updates and news to stay in the loop on upcoming events, projects and classes at the echo lab!

Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH appeared in a short video about Laura Dewey Bridgman who attended the Perkins School for the Blind in the 1800s and is the first known deaf-blind person to be successfully educated in the United States. She learned tactile sign language through her teacher, Dr. Samuel...

The remarkable story of Charles L. Schepens, MD, is featured in the June 2015 issue of EyeWorld: The Newsmagazine of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. Dr. Schepens is widely known as the Father of Modern Retinal Surgery and the founder of what is now the Schepens Eye Research...

Louis Pasquale, MD of Mass. Eye and Ear's Glaucoma Service and Thomas Merrill, OD, optician and manager of Mass. Eye and Ear Optical Services, were quoted in an article on protecting eyes from sun damage. Dr. Pasquale stressed the danger of reflective surfaces, such as water or snow, to eyes, and...

U.S. veterans who were nearby to bomb blasts in Iraq and Afghanistan appear to experience faster brain aging, according to a new study. The study, which is the first to examine the longer-term brain health of veteransexposed to bomb blasts, was published this week in Brain: A Journal of Neurology....

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!