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Dr. Gerald Healy has been selected to be a member of the first class of the Master Surgeon Educators of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). According to the ACS website, the aim of the new ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators is to "recognize and assemble a cadre of master surgeon educators...

James Akula, PhD, is the subcontractor PI for an NIDDK R44 (Small Business Innovation Research) grant in the amount of $39,156 over one year for the project, "Measurement of retinal nerves and blood vessels as markers for Type I diabetes." He is working with PI Mircea Mujat of Physical Sciences, Inc...

October 3-6, 2018 in Dubrovnik, Croatia www.glycocom.net (website still in development, check back soon!)

A paper written by Harvard Ophthalmology faculty Ivana K. Kim, MD; Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD; John B. Miller, MD; Joan W. Miller, MD; Teresa C. Chen, MD; and Deeba Husain, MD ; research fellow Inês Laíns, MD; and former research fellow Edem Tsikata, PhD; entitled “ Automated Brightness and...

As part of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) Advocacy Day, Magali Saint-Geniez, PhD, and Russell Woods, PhD, two vision researchers from Schepens Eye Research Institute at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Ophthalmology...

Billy Xiaoyi Pan, MD , has been named the 2017-2018 Richard J. Simmons and Ruthanne B. Simmons Glaucoma Fellow in the Harvard Department of Ophthalmology. This annual award was established in 2011 in recognition of two glaucoma physicians who were Harvard Ophthalmology graduates: the late Dr...

By Elizabeth Dougherty Sari Reisner, HMS assistant professor of pediatrics and an epidemiologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, is working to find ways to help school health professionals reduce the bullying of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) students. Bryn...

Dr. Ahmad Sedaghat, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship Program Award for Scholars in Medicine. Launched in 1996, the Shore Fellowship Program is designed to help junior faculty at the instructor or...

NEW YORK — The Harvard Medical School has added to its LGBT-specific training over the last year with a new elective course devoted to gay health, more incorporation of LGBT issues in existing courses and a new LGBT scholarship NBC News reports. The elective course was unveiled in January, 2016 for...

In a new study, two professors are looking at bullying based on stigma -- where one is treated unfairly or unjustly due to one's race, sexual orientation, gender, or other characteristic -- and examining the methods used to prevent this type of bullying and address it when it happens. Read the story...