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Nearly 40 Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and trainees from our affiliates—including Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Mass. Eye and Ear, and VA Boston Healthcare System—participated in the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting October 11-15 in San...

The Harvard Ophthalmology Mentoring Program has been recognized with the 2019 Program Award for a Culture of Excellence in Mentoring (PACEM) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This award was established to recognize departments, divisions, offices or programs for their efforts to foster innovation and...

Evangelos Gragoudas, MD, will once again offer an award for outstanding work in retina published by a Mass. Eye and Ear Trainee. For 2019, there will again be two $5,000 prizes, one for clinical work and one for basic or translational. Competition Rules You must be a current resident, clinical...

Dear Colleagues, If your research is addressing the structure and/or function of glycans in humans, we are inviting you to join the Human Glycome Project (HGP). The Human Glycome Project is an international initiative aimed at understanding structure and function of human glycans. It functions as a...

Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders focuses on scientific investigations into the diagnosis, evaluation and management of patients with involuntary movement disorders. The journal reviews, illustrates and emphasizes clinical phenomenology as an indispensable tool for diagnosis and application of...

Triological Combined Sections Meeting Our department had excellent representation in San Diego at the 2019 Triological Mid-Winter Meeting last month. There were dozens of outstanding presentations by our faculty members, residents, fellows, and trainees, in addition to several poster presentations...

In anticipation of the release of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scores, which expected later this month, a recent article published in JAMA discusses what we will learn from them and where this system should go next. Lead-authored by Vinay Rathi, MD, a Harvard Otolaryngology...

A clinical research team led by Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH , the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, have developed a biomaterial for corneal repair and regeneration that could...

Alice R. McPherson, MD, a Harvard Ophthalmology alumna and one of the world's leading vitreoretinal specialists, has been recognized with the inaugural Retina Hall of Fame Award for her pioneering contributions in the retina field. Dr. McPherson received the award at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the...

An estimated 37 million Americans have a form of hearing loss, and as author David Owen notes in his new book, Volume Control, many don’t seek the treatment they need due to the cost of hearing aids and stigma associated with wearing them. “Hearing problems are often aggravated by the human tendency...