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On July 1, Partners launched a new, mobile-based system to track attendance and CME credit for Ophthalmology Grand Rounds and the Retina Service Conference. Here’s how it works: Log in to Your Account Visit the Partners Office of Continuing Professional Development If you are a Partners employee...

The Tej Kohli Foundation has pledged $2 million over five years to establish the Tej Kohli Cornea Program at Mass. Eye and Ear, which will accelerate innovative and collaborative research to achieve unprecedented breakthroughs in corneal disease. “We are really excited to embark on this partnership...

Ye Sun, MD, PhD (Boston Children's Hospital)National Eye Institute: $2,210,000 over five yearsPhotoreceptor determination of retinal blood vessel growth in retinopathy Joseph Ciolino, MD (Mass. Eye and Ear)US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity: $2,098,767 over three yearsSteroid-eluting...

On June 13, Harvard Ophthalmology hosted a successful reimagined Annual and Alumni Virtual Meeting with nearly 300 faculty and alumni attendees. With a central theme of I nnovation and Adaptation During COVID-19 and Beyond, the event focused on the department's creative response to the pandemic and...

Professor of Ophthalmology Thaddeus Dryja, MD, received this year's Simmons Lessell Excellence in Education Award Presented during our clinical graduation ceremony on June 18, the award recognizes faculty who have made—and continue to make—sustained and profound contributions to education—just like...

Recent research suggested that COVID-19 may lead to changes to the retina such as OCT reflective lesions of inner retina. However, a new editorial authored by a team of retina specialists, including Harvard Ophthalmology faculty Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology...

Mohammad "Mo" Dahrouj, MD, PhD, a second-year clinical vitreoretinal fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear, has been awarded the 2020 Retina Patient Care Award. The award is presented to a clinical fellow who demonstrates a superior commitment to caring for patients during the course of the year. Not awarded...

Clockwise from the top left: 1) Dr. Lloyd Paul Aiello, Director of the Beetham Eye Institute; Robert Haskell, Past-President, Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund; and Jeanne Farrow, President, Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund 2) Dr. David G. Hunter, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, Boston Children’s...

Faculty member Jennifer K. Sun, MD, MPH, has been selected by the Macula Society to receive the 2021 Young Investigator Award. This prestigious honor is awarded to an individual under 50 years of age whose work gives high promise of a notable advance in the clinical treatment of disorders of the eye...

Nakul Singh, MD, MS, a PGY-3 ophthalmology resident, received the 2020 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund his research to “characterize the biomechanics of how ERMs and test the effect of netarsudil on inhibiting contraction.” He will complete the project under...