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John H. Kempen, MD, MPH, PhD, MHS, will be honored with the 2020 Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) during the annual meeting in November. The award recognizes Dr. Kempen’s deep commitment to charitable work that aims to reduce blindness worldwide...

Joseph F. Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and assistant scientist at Mass Eye and Ear who studies small vessel disease in the brain and the eye, has been awarded a five-year, $4 million gift from Good Ventures to spur his lab’s...

Mary C. Whitman, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, is the 2020 recipient of the Boston Children's Hospital Career Development Fellowship, which provides transitional funding for junior faculty members to enhance research productivity during the early stages of...

We're pleased to share that our residency program has been ranked second in the nation by Ophthalmology Times, up two spots from our fourth place position in 2019. The program, led by Alice Lorch, was recognized for its supportive, caring teaching culture, and offering residents a breadth of...

Alice R. McPherson, MD, a Harvard Ophthalmology alumna and one of the world's leading vitreoretinal specialists, has been recognized with the inaugural Retina Hall of Fame Award for her pioneering contributions in the retina field. Dr. McPherson received the award at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the...

Cataract Master, the cataract surgical training tool created at Mass. Eye and Ear in 2012 by John I. Loewenstein, MD , Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Clinical Chief of Ophthalmology at Mass. Eye and Ear, and former Harvard Ophthalmology faculty member Bonnie An Henderson, MD, is...

Congratulations to the following Harvard Ophthalmology Faculty and Trainees on recieving ARVO Travel Grants: Dina B. K. Abusamra, PhD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear Saghar Bagheri, MD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear Karen Chang, PhD, Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and...

A new study led by a research team from Harvard Medical School and Mass. Eye and Ear, describes how bacteria adapted to the modern hospital environment and repeatedly cause antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections. This study examined one of the first sustained hospital outbreaks of a multidrug...

Instructor in Ophthalmology Emily Wiecek, OD, PhD, and research fellow Zhengping (Ping) Hu each received Career-Starter Grants from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. With support from this award, Emily will continue studying how anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia affect peripheral visual...

A large-scale, collaborative, systems biology approach is needed to expedite the discovery of treatments for dry age-related macular degeneration, according to a report by a working group of scientists appointed by the National Advisory Eye Council (NAEC) that includes Joan. W. Miller, MD, Chair of...