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In celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride month, LAHMS is proud to offer this resource created by first-year Harvard medical student Casey Orozco-Poore for the Racial Justice Coalition's "Essentials" series. In this presentation, you will find more information on the health and identity of transgender people...

Harvard Ophthalmology hosted its Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion on June 7-8. The CME-accredited event featured faculty and alumni lectures, award presentations, a poster contest and networking opportunities. The event was co-chaired by faculty members Joseph B. Ciolino, MD; Gena Heidary, MD, PhD...

Claes H. Dohlman, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Emeritus and former Chair of Harvard Ophthalmology (1974-1989) was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal for his pioneering work in ophthalmology. University President Guy Breton presented the award to Dr. Dohlman at the...

Laura de Lima Xavier, MD, won the Best Poster Design Award at the Boston Speech Motor Contorl Symposium for her poster: "Sex differences and asymmetries in cortical thickness within the speech production network" on June 21, 2019, Boston, MA.

Instructor in Ophthalmology Emily Wiecek, OD, PhD, and research fellow Zhengping (Ping) Hu each received Career-Starter Grants from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. With support from this award, Emily will continue studying how anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia affect peripheral visual...

Earlier this month, otologists from around the globe gathered in Boston for the 2019 International Otopathology Society meeting. Sponsored in part by the NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing, and Balance Pathology Resource Registry at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, members of the society meet in...

Read original oped here: USA Today: Trump's transgender ban is cruel, medically unethical and damaging to the US military by Robert H. Goldstein Though President Donald Trump tweeted his solidarity with LGBT Americans as PRIDE month began, his actions speak louder than words. His administration’s...

Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School gathered in the Meltzer Auditorium at Massachusetts Eye and Ear on Friday, June 21, to celebrate the 2019 graduating class of residents and fellows. Five chief residents and 11 clinical fellows...

Alexis Worthley, BA, won the Outstanding Paper Award and the Travel Award by the American Laryngological Association (ALA) for the presentation: "A separation of innate and learned vocal behaviors defines the symptomatology of spasmodic dysphonia". She delivered her talk at the COSM-ALA meeting on...

Davide Valeriani, PhD, won the People’s Choice Abstract Award for the poster: “Automatic Diagnosis of Spasmodic Dysphonia with Structural MRI and Machine Learning” presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) on June 9-13, 2019, in Rome, Italy.