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Glaucoma The diagnosis and follow-up of glaucoma in Boston KPro-implanted patients are complicated because of the difficulty of measuring intraocular pressure accurately with standard tonometers due to the rigidity of the KPro back plate. An alternative is finger palpation of the sclera, though this...

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Save the Date: September 29-30, 2023

Industry partnerships and commercial ventures offer opportunities to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of innovative drugs and medical devices. As our industry relationships grow in number, Harvard Ophthalmology strives to maintain academic integrity and a culture of open and...

Key Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings 5 Promote use of eye shields on the scene for patients with potential eye injuries Maintain reliable communications Deepen the ophthalmology call algorithm Integrate ophthalmology services into trauma teams and maintain a voice in hospital-wide...

In the 1990s, the 2014 Champalimaud Award Laureates worked in parallel and in collaboration to identify vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as the major trigger for angiogenesis in the eye. In 1993, they showed that the human retina synthesizes VEGF, and subsequently demonstrated that VEGF...

2014 António Champalimaud Laureates: Joan W. Miller, MD, FARVO, Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD, Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, FARVO, Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, George L. King, MD, Anthony P. Adamis, MD; and Napoleone Ferrara, MD Dear Colleagues, In September, several Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical...

Dear Colleagues, Nearly five million people in the world are blind from corneal disease in both eyes, and millions more have corneal blindness in one eye. For some people, conventional corneal transplantation is a successful and life-changing intervention. Many others, however, suffer multiple...

Through endowed chairs, or professorships, Harvard Ophthalmology attracts and supports the endeavors of world-class clinician scientists and investigators. Endowed chairs offer research and training support to incumbents while giving them the freedom to pursue independent research without the burden...

14th Annual Mass Eye and Ear Vitrectomy Coursefor First-year Vitreoretinal Fellows July 14-15, 2023 The 14th Annual Vitrectomy Course will be held on Friday, July 14 to Saturday, July 15, 2022. The Course offers first-year retina fellows from across the US an intensive and comprehensive introduction...