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In a study recently published in Nature, a team of Boston Children’s Hospital and Mass. Eye and Ear investigators including Artur A. Indzhykulian, MD, PhD, discovered that the coat protein of hair-cell stereocilia, known as Polycystic Kidney and Hepatic Disease 1-Like 1 (PKHD1L1), is required for...

Mass. Eye and Ear fellow Stephan Ong Tone, MDCM, PhD, FRCSC, is the co-winner (with Nakul Shekhawat, MD, MPH, of the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University) of the 2019 Claes H. Dohlman MD, PhD, Fellowship Award. The award recognizes outstanding clinical fellows training in the area of...

Several faculty and alumni have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Congratulations to alumnus and part-time faculty member Anthony Adamis, MD; faculty member Elizabeth Engle, MD; and alumna Julia Haller, MD. Established by the National Academy of Sciences, the NAM is...

Boston, Mass. — Deaths from treatable conditions may cost the world trillions of dollars each year, according to a newly published analysis led by Harvard Medical School researchers believed to be the first to quantify the economic impact of insufficient access to high-quality medical care. The...

New Findings in Dystonia - Dr. Simonyan's research is highlighted in the Spring 2018 issue of Harvard Otolaryngology. “Continuation of [dystonia] research is vital in determining the exact causes and mechanisms of this disorder. This knowledge will be crucial for the future development of novel...

Thirty-two Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass. Eye and Ear clinical trainees graduated on June 21. The ceremony, held at Mass. Eye and Ear, celebrated eight Harvard Ophthalmology residents, the AY 2017-2018 chief resident, and two optometry residents, as well as 21 clinical fellows from Mass. Eye and Ear...

Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH , the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has been awarded a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein Innovation Award in the amount of $300,000 over three...

The purpose of the MMS LGBTQ Research Grant program is to encourage and incorporate cultural competency training early in medical education to make strides towards improving health care quality, access and equity for LGBTQ patients in the Commonwealth. To that end, the Massachusetts Medical Society...

On September 12, 2018, Massachusetts Eye and Ear hosted its annual Boston Thyroid Club meeting. Founded and directed by Drs. Gregory Randolph and Paul Konowitz, both members of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery Division at Mass. Eye and Ear, this meeting began as the first otolaryngology...

Alison is a PhD candidate in the Harvard Medical School BIG program and is interested in studying the role of human genetic variation and population history in health and disease. Welcome, Alison!