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The Harvard Medical Postdoc Association (HMPA) would like to invite you to run for leadership positions on our governing board for the upcoming year, from August 2021 until July 2022. All positions are open to quad-based HMS Postdocs and Postdocs from HMS-affiliated hospitals, with the exception of...

Eli Peli, MSc, OD, will receive the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research 2020 Oberdorfer Award in Low Vision for his contributions to the field. As part of his award, Eli will present at the ARVO 2020 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, new challenges arise each day for people across the world. Some of these challenges particularly affect the LGBTQ+ community. This unique time calls for LGBTQ+-specific resources and new ways to connect and cope. Read full article here.

This year's Iraty Award for Research in Retinal Diseases honors Petr Baranov, PhD, a scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. The award, which includes a $100,000 prize, was established by an anonymous donor...

The blinq™ vision scanner, a diagnostic tool for amblyopia that was created by Boston Children's Hospital Ophthalmologist-in-Chief David G. Hunter, MD, PhD, received an Honorable Mention in Fast Company's 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards competition. Performing a 2-second blinq™ vision scan during...

For the second consecutive year, Ankoor S. Shah, MD, PhD, received the Faculty Innovated Research Award from Boston Children's Hospital. This year, the award recognizes his work developing evidence-based guidelines for the utility of ophthalmic consultation in patients with non-accidental trauma.

On behalf of the graduating Harvard Medical School Class of 2020, David G. Hunter, MD, PhD, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital, was recognized with the Excellence in Clinical Instruction Award.

Dr. Katz-Wise wrote “ COVID-19 and the LGBTQ+ community: Rising to unique challenges” for the Harvard Health Blog in April 2020 and so far over 2120 people have read it. Her piece remains one of the few published on the ways our community is impacted by this pandemic. With all of the media coverage...

In honor of Pride month, the SGM Health Equity Initiative hosted a conversation with members of the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and more) community in the Greater Boston area. Representing an array of identities and experiences, the panelists discuss what...

We are excited to share a new preprint, " Whole-exome imputation within UK Biobank powers rare coding variant association and fine-mapping analyses" (Barton et al.), which reports an atlas of 1,189 rare coding variants likely to causally influence 54 quantitative traits in UK Biobank. This analysis...