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No group has suffered more from the COVID-19 pandemic than Black and Latinx populations. Systemic racism, Ciersten Burks, MD says, is to blame. Sparked by the tragic murder of George Floyd last summer, Dr. Burks, a PGY-3 HMS OHNS resident from Indianapolis, Indiana, was published by the American...

Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) celebrated the 2021 graduating class of residents and fellows on Friday, June 11. Graduating residents and their immediate families were honored inside the Meltzer Auditorium at Mass Eye and...

Neurotology fellow Divya Chari, MD was awarded the 2021 Patricia & Barry Yellen Young Investigator Award in February. Long-time Mass Eye and Ear Trustee Barry Yellen and his wife Patricia have given generous gifts toward this endowed award since 2001. The award supports the research of trainees...

Alan Workman, MD, and Benjamin Bleier, MD, FACS, were awarded the Best Basic Science Research Presentation Award by the American Rhinologic Society (ARS) for their presentation on the potential role of the protein Cystatin-SN in the development of nasal polyp disease. The award was presented at the...

Nicole Black, PhD, a former Gliklich Healthcare Innovation Scholar at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently named to the Forbes 30-Under-30 2022 Manufacturing & Industry list. Every year, six hundred of the world’s most-successful entrepreneurs under the age of 30 are featured on Forbes’ 30-Under-30 lists...

The Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School recently celebrated the promotion of Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, to Professor of Otolaryngology. Dr. Varvares is the Associate Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Dr. Varvares...

We are pleased to introduce the five medical students who’ve been matched to our residency program this year. We look forward to their arrival and hope all will join us in welcoming them this June. Ciersten BurksMedical School: Indiana University Harvard otolaryngology resident Christopher...

The Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School held its first annual "Mastoid Bowl" in the Joseph B. Nadol, Jr., MD, Surgical Training Laboratory at Mass. Eye and Ear earlier this year. Hosted by Daniel J. Lee, MD, FACS, this competition evaluated otolaryngology residents as they...

Boston, Mass. — A new study led by researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear found that good performance on a piloting task was associated with lower vestibular thresholds, which represent stronger ability to sense and perceive information about motion, balance, and spatial orientation. Published...

Boston, Mass. — Physicians at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, induced a sense of smell in humans by using electrodes in the nose to stimulate nerves in the olfactory bulb, a structure in the brain where smell information from the nose is processed and sent to deeper regions of...