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...
Mass. Eye and Ear's Boston KPro was credited as the most widely used artificial cornea in an article from Ophthalmology Times on the use of bioengineered corneas. September 1, 2015 Ophthalmology Times
David Sullivan and his family were featured in a Review of Optometry editorial for their "vision and dedication in unravelling the mysteries of dry eye disease." September 14, 2015 Optometric Physician
Lois E. H. Smith ( Boston Children's Hospital) received the 2015 Heed-Gutman Award from the Society of Heed Fellows at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 14, 2015. The prestigious Heed-Gutman Award is given annually to a former Heed Fellow from the...
Contact: Suzanne Day suzanne_day@meei.harvard.edu617-573-3897 BOSTON – Magali Saint-Geniez, PhD , has been awarded a Dolly Green Special Scholar Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) in the amount of $25,000 over two years for her project, "Roles of metabolism, oxidative stress and PGC-1...
Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH appeared in a short video about Laura Dewey Bridgman who attended the Perkins School for the Blind in the 1800s and is the first known deaf-blind person to be successfully educated in the United States. She learned tactile sign language through her teacher, Dr. Samuel...
The remarkable story of Charles L. Schepens, MD, is featured in the June 2015 issue of EyeWorld: The Newsmagazine of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. Dr. Schepens is widely known as the Father of Modern Retinal Surgery and the founder of what is now the Schepens Eye Research...