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This program covers the basics of clinical research (how to formulate a research question, select study population, randomization and blinding methods) to statistical methods (data distribution and classification, statistical tests, sample size calculation, survival analysis, missing data and meta...

Eli Peli, MSc, OD , is the recipient of the 2018 Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School. He will receive the award during a ceremony at Harvard Medical School on April 30, 2018. The Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award was established to recognize faculty from Harvard Medical...

by Trish Bendix Seeing a Harvard Medical School diploma hanging in your doctor’s office may in itself be impressive, but now, for some LGBTQ patients, the degree may provide some additional comfort. With a new LGBTQ elective course, the incorporation of LGBTQ health needs into existing courses and...

By Alice Pettway “It’s hard to know who you can trust.” Those are the words of a 26-year-old gay student at a U.S medical school who participated in a Stanford University School of Medicine study examining the experiences of sexual and gender minority medical students. In particular, the survey...

By Ellen Barlow Bullying started early for Nicole Maines, now a college freshman, who has known since she was 2 years old that she was not the boy she was born as. She wanted to dress as Ariel the mermaid in a world that expected her to be a Batman. By age 12, her transition was complete. She took...

Dear Glycoscientists: The deadline for submission of poster abstracts to the 2018 conference on Sialic Acids has been extended to Friday March 30th. This biennial conference is being held May 10-14 in Banff, Canada. For details on the Sialoglyco2018 conference, see https://sialoglyco.com/abstract...

Harvard Medical School faculty members gathered last weekend for the biannual Temporal Bone Dissection Course. Directed by David H. Jung, MD, PhD, FACS, Daniel J. Lee, MD, FACS, and Michael J. McKenna, MD, this Harvard continuing medical education (CME) course brought practicing otolaryngologists up...

New research led by Kip Connor, PhD, finds that microglia—the primary immune cells of the central nervous system, including the retina—play a vital role in regulating neuroinflammation in autoimmune uveitis. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and featured on...

The Department of Ophthalmology was well represented at this year’s Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, held April 22 through May 2 in Vancouver, British Columbia. More than 160 faculty and trainees participated as course instructors, panelists, lecturers and...

Earlier this month, otologists from around the globe gathered in Boston for the 2019 International Otopathology Society meeting. Sponsored in part by the NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing, and Balance Pathology Resource Registry at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, members of the society meet in...