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Boston's Top Doctors 2019

Congratulations to Harvard Ophthalmology faculty who are recognized in Boston magazine’s 2019 Top Doctors list. Physicians are selected by their peers via an online nomination process established by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a health care research and information company. Linda Dagi, MD Reza...

Dr. Zebardast Receives MAPS Award from AGS

Nazlee Zebardast, MD, MSc, has been selected to receive the Mentoring for Advancement of Physicians-Scientists (MAPS) Award by the American Glaucoma Society (AGS). The award, presented to clinicians at the early stages of their academic careers to facilitate their glaucoma research, will provide $10...

Dr. Konstantina Stankovic Presents at MIT Technology Day

Last weekend, Dr. Konstantina Stankovic, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, was one of seven speakers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) 2018 Technology Day symposium. The program focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, wondering if we can truly design...

Microglia protect sensory cells needed for vision after retinal detachment

Pictured above: Retinal microglia (green) and the retinal vasculature (magenta). Photo credit: Dong-Ho Park, M.D., Connor Lab. A research team at Massachusetts Eye and Ear has shown that microglia, the primary immune cells of the brain and retina, play a protective role in response to retinal...

UK Biobank clonal hematopoiesis paper published in Nature

Our work on mosaic chromosomal alterations in the UK Biobank N=150K interim release has been published in Nature! This study used long-range haplotype phasing information to detect mosaicism in blood at very low clonal fractions (down to ~1%), producing an atlas of 8,342 mosaic events. The...

Dr. Reza Rahbar Promoted to Professor of Otolaryngology

The Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School recently celebrated the promotion of Reza Rahbar, DMD, MD, to Professor of Otolaryngology. Dr. Rahbar is the Associate Chief of Otolaryngology and the Director of the Fellowship Program at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School...