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Rheumatic mitral and aortic stenosis: to replace or not to replace--that is the question--part 2.

Publication: Journal Article

Darke, Melanie, John Pawloski, Kamal Khabbaz, and Feroze Mahmood. 2010. “Rheumatic Mitral and Aortic Stenosis: To Replace or Not to Replace--That Is the Question--Part 2.”. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 24 (2): 364-5.

HMS Neuro-ophthalmologist Explains Science Behind Great Dress Debate

News: February 27, 2015

Is the dress white & gold or black & blue? The science behind " The Great Dress Debate" is explained by Joseph Rizzo III, MD, David G. Cogan Professor of Ophthalmology in the field of Neuro-Ophthalmology and Director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service at Mass. Eye and Ear. To watch the interview on...

HMS Ophthalmology Investigator Wins Muse Award in Wearables in Healthcare Pilot Challenge

News: March 30, 2015

Alex Hwang, PhD, won the Muse Award, a sub-category competition of the Wearables in Healthcare Pilot Challenge by Medstro. Dr. Hwang's idea was to use the Muse, which is a compact version of an electroencephalogram that measures electrical signals in the brain, to measure the level of visually...

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A great number of learners benefit from educational services provided by our lab. We are responsible for training anesthesiology interns and residents in perioperative ultrasound. Furthermore, we run annual training programs in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography for Cardiology...

Charles L. Schepens, MD

Person: (March 13, 1912 – March 28, 2006), Past Professor of Ophthalmology, "The Father of Modern Retinal Surgery"

BIOGRAPHY Charles L. Schepens was born in Belgium in 1912, and originally studied mathematics at university before turning his interests to medicine. He received his medical degree in 1935 from the State University of Ghent. In 1937 he served as assistant to Dr. L. Hambresin in Brussels. In 1940, he...

Judah Folkman, MD

Person: (February 24, 1933 – January 14, 2008), Past Professor of Ophthalmology, "The Father of Angiogenesis"

BIOGRAPHY As a young navy doctor in 1961, Dr. Judah Folkman noticed that tumors needed blood vessels to grow. Ten years later, Folkman published a controversial theory that is now widely accepted: targeting angiogenesis may potentially arrest cancer. Although others described tumor angiogenesis as...

Henry Willard Williams, AM, MD

Person: (December 11, 1821 - June 13, 1895), First Chair of the HMS Department of Ophthalmology, 1871-1891

BIOGRAPHY Henry Willard Williams was born December 11, 1821 in Boston, Massachusetts to Willard and Elizabeth Osgood Williams, and attended both the Boston Latin School and Salem Latin School. He began his clinical training at Harvard Medical School in 1844, and also trained in medical schools and...

Robina Matyal, MD

Person: Leonard S. Bushnell MD, Chair in Anaesthesia , Director of Vascular Anaesthesia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School