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Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, was included in The Ophthalmologist’s 2017 Power List. This list is created by the magazine’s leadership, who vote for ophthalmology’s top 50 rising stars. Dr. Yonekawa joined the Harvard Ophthalmology faculty in 2016, and specializes in adult and pediatric retina surgery...

Jeremy Wolfe, PhD, has been named President of the Federation of Associations of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS). As a coalition of scientific societies, FABBS is eager to advance the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior, and share the contributions of research in these areas with policy...

James Akula, PhD, is the subcontractor PI for an NIDDK R44 (Small Business Innovation Research) grant in the amount of $39,156 over one year for the project, "Measurement of retinal nerves and blood vessels as markers for Type I diabetes." He is working with PI Mircea Mujat of Physical Sciences, Inc...

A paper written by Harvard Ophthalmology faculty Ivana K. Kim, MD; Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD; John B. Miller, MD; Joan W. Miller, MD; Teresa C. Chen, MD; and Deeba Husain, MD ; research fellow Inês Laíns, MD; and former research fellow Edem Tsikata, PhD; entitled “ Automated Brightness and...

As part of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) Advocacy Day, Magali Saint-Geniez, PhD, and Russell Woods, PhD, two vision researchers from Schepens Eye Research Institute at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Ophthalmology...

Billy Xiaoyi Pan, MD , has been named the 2017-2018 Richard J. Simmons and Ruthanne B. Simmons Glaucoma Fellow in the Harvard Department of Ophthalmology. This annual award was established in 2011 in recognition of two glaucoma physicians who were Harvard Ophthalmology graduates: the late Dr...

In a significant advance against drug-resistant superbugs, investigators supported by the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance have identified a new class of synthetic antibiotics that have been shown to be effective against Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus. The newly discovered...

The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) is hosting its 2015 annual meeting at the Sands Expo/Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada from November 14-17, 2015, with subspecialty days on November 13-14, 2015. Click here to view the HMS schedule for this event. Don't miss the Young Ophthalmologists Lounge...

Six members of the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology were highlighted in the December 2015 issue of Boston Magazine as "Top Doctors." Included in this list are Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, Joan W. Miller, MD, Joseph F. Rizzo III, MD, Ernest W. Kornmehl, MD, and Bradford J. Shingleton...

Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD, an international authority in retinal diseases and intraocular tumors, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Health Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on November 27, 2015, in recognition of his pioneering work in these areas. His early...