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The Alcon Foundation Board renewed a grant in support of the Alcon Research Scholar program in the amount of $230,850 over three years. The renewal is for July 1, 2019 -June 30, 2022. The objective of the Alcon Research Scholar position which is to provide protected time for young clinician...

The Harvard Medical School Department of Otolaryngology had excellent representation this week at the 41st Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) in San Diego. Our faculty contributed 142 presentations, several of which earned very prominent positions on the...

By Savannah Young Back in the 1980s, when Mark Schuster was completing an adult neurology rotation at a Harvard teaching hospital, a woman was brought to the emergency room with urinary incontinence and other symptoms, as well as signs of a herniated disc, including a confirmatory myelogram. She...

By Lauren Massey This June, HMS and HSDM joined people around the state and the world in marking LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Pride Month. The Schools' newly formed LGBT Advisory Committee created a schedule of events to celebrate Pride Month, educate the community about important...

Neal Baer is an award-winning television writer and producer—and a Harvard Medical School-trained pediatrician (MD ’96). Through his pioneering work on hit shows such as ER and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as his leadership in connecting media producers with doctors and scientists...

By M.R.F. Buckley When Neal Baer was attending Harvard Medical School in the 1990s, he says there were only two out gay students in his class and next to nothing was ever mentioned about LGBTQ health. Baer received his degree in 1996 and became a pediatrician, an adjunct professor of preventive...

Jessica Halem, program manager of the LGBT Office within the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at HMS, shares some of the ways the Harvard Medical School community is working to reduce health care disparities for transgender patients. Efforts range from medical education and...

Dr. Nate Jowett, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, has been named the Director of the Surgical Photonics Engineering Laboratory (SPEL) at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. As the only laboratory of its kind at Harvard Medical School, SPEL is focused on applying emerging...

This program covers the basics of clinical research (how to formulate a research question, select study population, randomization and blinding methods) to statistical methods (data distribution and classification, statistical tests, sample size calculation, survival analysis, missing data and meta...

Eli Peli, MSc, OD , is the recipient of the 2018 Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School. He will receive the award during a ceremony at Harvard Medical School on April 30, 2018. The Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award was established to recognize faculty from Harvard Medical...