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No group has suffered more from the COVID-19 pandemic than Black and Latinx populations. Systemic racism, Ciersten Burks, MD says, is to blame. Sparked by the tragic murder of George Floyd last summer, Dr. Burks, a PGY-3 HMS OHNS resident from Indianapolis, Indiana, was published by the American...

Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) celebrated the 2021 graduating class of residents and fellows on Friday, June 11. Graduating residents and their immediate families were honored inside the Meltzer Auditorium at Mass Eye and...

Neurotology fellow Divya Chari, MD was awarded the 2021 Patricia & Barry Yellen Young Investigator Award in February. Long-time Mass Eye and Ear Trustee Barry Yellen and his wife Patricia have given generous gifts toward this endowed award since 2001. The award supports the research of trainees...

Alan Workman, MD, and Benjamin Bleier, MD, FACS, were awarded the Best Basic Science Research Presentation Award by the American Rhinologic Society (ARS) for their presentation on the potential role of the protein Cystatin-SN in the development of nasal polyp disease. The award was presented at the...

Nicole Black, PhD, a former Gliklich Healthcare Innovation Scholar at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently named to the Forbes 30-Under-30 2022 Manufacturing & Industry list. Every year, six hundred of the world’s most-successful entrepreneurs under the age of 30 are featured on Forbes’ 30-Under-30 lists...

More than 50 surgeons from around the globe gathered at Massachusetts Eye and Ear for the Harvard International Endoscopic Ear Surgery course, which is one of the only continuing medical education (CME) courses in the United States exclusively dedicated to this advanced technique. Co-directed by...

Nearly half of all hearing loss cases are due in some part to genetic factors. Researchers around the world, including many at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, are hard at work on developing therapies to prevent hearing loss from genetic conditions. In collaboration with the Broad Institute...

The Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School recently celebrated the promotion of Reza Rahbar, DMD, MD, to Professor of Otolaryngology. Dr. Rahbar is the Associate Chief of Otolaryngology and the Director of the Fellowship Program at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School...

Dr. Nate Jowett, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, has been named the Director of the Surgical Photonics Engineering Laboratory (SPEL) at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. As the only laboratory of its kind at Harvard Medical School, SPEL is focused on applying emerging...

Harvard Medical School faculty members gathered last weekend for the biannual Temporal Bone Dissection Course. Directed by David H. Jung, MD, PhD, FACS, Daniel J. Lee, MD, FACS, and Michael J. McKenna, MD, this Harvard continuing medical education (CME) course brought practicing otolaryngologists up...