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Information for this release was provided by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Rockville, Md. — Vision scientists may have discovered how to reduce pedestrian collisions in crowded and chaotic open space environments like bus terminals, shopping malls and city plazas...

Tomasz (Tommy) Stryjewski, currently a second year resident, has been selected Chief Resident and Director of the Mass. Eye and Ear Eye Trauma Service for the academic year 2017-2018. In this vital role, he will join the leadership of one of the busiest ocular trauma centers in the country and serve...

Lisa Cowan's, MD, PhD, paper, "Introducing a new surgical technology: Controversies in femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery and impact on resident surgical training," published in the Fall 2015 issue of International Ophthalmology Clinics , was one of the top 10 articles read in 2015 in...

Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Joan W. Miller Scholar in Retinal Research at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, was selected to receive a 2016 ARVO Foundation/Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award. The award will...

C. Stephen Foster, MD , Professor of Ophthalmology, part-time, at Mass. Eye and Ear, and f ounder of Massachusetts Eye Research & Surgery Institution ( MERSI) -a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to patient-centered, quality eye care from the world’s leading physicians – recently had his method of...

Mass. Eye and Ear and the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology are proud to be leading this important clinical trial. We look forward to reporting on safety and efficacy studies in the months and years to come. ReNeuron announces first patient treated in US Phase I/II clinical trial in...

Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School neuro-ophthalmologist and researcher awarded funding by the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. Joseph F. Rizzo III, MD, has been awarded grant funding as part of the Vision Prosthesis Pilot Study, a Congressionally...

Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair of Centers of Excellence, will receive the 2016 Ernst H. Bárány Prize from the International Society of Eye Research (ISER). The Council of ISER awards an International Prize in honor of Professor Ernst H. Bárány, for their...