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Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School gathered in the Meltzer Auditorium at Massachusetts Eye and Ear on Friday, June 22, to celebrate the 2018 graduating class of residents and fellows. Four chief residents and 13 clinical fellows graduated from the...

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...

Hamid Motallebzadeh, PhD, an instructor in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently awarded a R21 research grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research on using AI to automate the noninvasive...

Gillian R. Diercks, MD, MPH, and Eleni M. Rettig, MD, both Instructors in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at Harvard Medical School, have been named recipients of 2022 Eleanor and Miles Shore Development Awards. The awards are a part of the 27th annual Eleanor and Miles Shore Development...

Sunil Puria, PhD, a scientist in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass Eye and Ear, has recently been elected President of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), an organization committed to encouraging and promoting basic and clinical research across the field of otolaryngology–head...

The labs of Artur A. Indzhykulian, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and David Corey, PhD, Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science in the Blavatnik Institute of HMS, have recently received a $1 million Blavatnik...

Alicia Quesnel, MD, a neurotologic surgeon and researcher at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently presented the Sandy and Herb Pollack Young Investigator Award at the 2021 Mass Eye and Ear Annual Meeting of Trustees and Medical Staff. The award is endowed by the late Herb Pollack, a former Mass Eye and...

Neurotology fellow Dr. Dunia Abdul-Aziz is the recipient of the 2017 Yellen Young Investigator Award. Long-time Mass. Eye and Ear Trustees, Patricia and Barry Yellen, have been giving annual gifts toward this endowed award to support the research of trainees studying hearing and hearing loss since...

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...

Boston, Mass. — Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers have shown that mifepristone, a drug currently FDA-approved for chemical abortion, prevents the growth of vestibular schwannoma (also known as acoustic neuroma) cells. This sometimes-lethal intracranial tumor typically causes hearing loss and...