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Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, Claes Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Cornea Service at Mass. Eye and Ear, received a 2017 Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). The AAO Achievement Award program recognizes individuals who...

Dr. David Sullivan receives prestigious award honoring innovation and leadership in the field of contact lenses and anterior segment disease. Boston, Mass. — David A. Sullivan, PhD, FARVO, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Senior Scientist at Schepens Eye Research...

Harvard Ophthalmology was well represented at this year’s Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Imaging in the Eye Conference and Annual Meeting. More than 230 faculty and trainees participated as course instructors, panelists, and lecturers on May 6-11. View the full program...

The Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) and the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) will co-host a Congressional briefing about dry eye disease on July 12. Janine Clayton, MD (National Institutes of Health), Susan Vitale, PhD, MHS (National Eye Institute), Anat Galor, MD (Bascom Palmer...

Regenerating the optic nerve was long considered impossible. But over the last 20 years, advances in the field have instilled confidence in many researchers—including Larry Benowitz, PhD , Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School—that regenerating the optic nerve is not...

Rani N. Al Karmi, MD, FRCS(c), M.Ed , a research and clinical fellow in Cornea and External Disease at Mass. Eye and Ear, was selected as the 2017 Alcon Research Scholar. This award provides support to a trainee to allow them to work on a translational research project with a senior clinician...

Massachusetts Grand Officers of the Knights Templar Eye Foundation came to Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School to present two checks for their $65,000 Pediatric Ophthalmology Career-Starter Research Grant. One went to Alessandro Di Gioia, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the...

On March 29, 2017, the Boston Children’s Hospital Ophthalmology Department became the first pediatric institution in the world to have the Macular Integrity Assessment (MAIA) scotopic microperimeter, an advanced ophthalmology diagnostic imager. According to its manufacturer (CenterVue, Padova, Italy...

We are pleased to announce that the Mass. Eye and Ear/Mass General Department of Ophthalmology was once again ranked among the best in the nation, earning the #4 national ranking (and #1 in New England) it has maintained for the past 28 years by U.S. News & World Report , in the 2017-2018 “Best...

The New England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS) —the second-oldest American medical specialty society in continuous existence—offers its 700+ members thoughtful and stimulating educational programs five times each year. The educational mission of NEOS resonates at every meeting, and members can...