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Stories of Patients With Strabismus

Recently released, a short video shares the journey of a series of Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) patients who were kind enough to allow us to tell their story. David Hunter, MD, PhD, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at BCH, noticed a few years ago that many adults with strabismus (eye misalignment) are...

Botox May Improve Strabismus Surgery Success

In two companion studies— “The Effect of Botulinum Toxin Augmentation on Strabismus Surgery for Large-Angle Infantile Esotropia” and “Long-term Surgical Outcomes for Large-angle Infantile Esotropia”—just published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)...

Faculty Take the Podium at the 2018 AAO-HNS Annual Meeting

Faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School had an excellent representation in Atlanta, Georgia at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) earlier this month. There were more than 90 outstanding presentations by our...

Po-Ru Loh receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award

Po-Ru Loh has been selected for a 2018 NIH Director's New Innovator Award, which supports "unusually innovative research from early career investigators." The proposed project (" Revealing Somatic Genome Alterations and Their Clinical Sequelae: Ultrasensitive Computational Detection of Mosaic...

Dr. Dodd Receives AAPOS Fellow Research Award

Mary-Magdalene Ugo Dodd, MD, received the 2018 AAPOS Fellow Research Award for her project, "Long Term Outcomes of Adjustable Nasal Transposition of Split Lateral Rectus Muscle for Third Nerve Palsy - An International Perspective." The research project involved an innovative, cloud-based survey that...

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute at Harvard Medical School, and the Associate Chief for Clinical Research in Ophthalmology and Interim Glaucoma Service Director at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has been...

First Annual Harvard "Mastoid Bowl" Winner Announced

The Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School held its first annual "Mastoid Bowl" in the Joseph B. Nadol, Jr., MD, Surgical Training Laboratory at Mass. Eye and Ear earlier this year. Hosted by Daniel J. Lee, MD, FACS, this competition evaluated otolaryngology residents as they...

Symposia Facilitate Dialogue on Innovative Research

Attendance for the 3rd Biennial International Symposium on Ocular Regeneration and the 5th Biennial International Symposium on AMD continues to climb each year, reflecting the high caliber of these meetings and the value they bring to their respective fields. Both events sparked great discussions...