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Tips For Managing Patients

Emphasize the positive: Establish a therapeutic relationship with the patient where the positive aspects of the encounter are emphasized. For example, reassure patients that the eye and central nervous system are not damaged, rather than using phrases like “there is nothing wrong,” which can seem...

Fellows Recognized with Research Awards

Brian Ballios, MD, PhD, an inherited retinal degenerations fellow at Mass Eye and Ear, and Tatiana Perepelkina, MD, a pediatric medical retina fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, are both recipients of the 2020 VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research award, which will provide funding for their...

Yohei Tomita, MD, PhD, Recognized by Japanese Ophthalmological Society

Yohei Tomita, MD, PhD, a research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, is a recipient of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society’s Young Investigator Award. This award will support Dr. Tomita's research project “Petinal pathological neovascularization by Increasing FGF21 level in an aurine oxygen...

Aparna Raghuram, OD, PhD, Recognized with Career Development Award

Aparna Raghuram, OD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and an Optometrist at Boston Children’s Hospital, is the recipient of the 2021 American Academy of Optometry’s Career Development Award. This grant award provides $100,000 over two years to fund Dr. Raghuram's...

Four Faculty Join Editorial Boards

Ula V. Jurkunas, MD, Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, and Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, all Associate Professors of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, have joined the editorial board of Ophthalmology Science, the fourth major journal published by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. The online, open...

Boston Magazine Top Doctors 2021

Congratulations to the following Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and alumni who were each recognized as one of "Boston's Top Doctors 2021" by Boston magazine. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Mark C. Kuperwaser, MD Boston Children's Hospital Linda R. Dagi, MD David G. Hunter, MD, PhD Melanie A...

Empower Conference

Empower: A Symposium on Underrepresented Voices in Medicine is geared towards pre-medical students who are historically underrepresented in medicine (e.g. Black, Hispanic/Latinx, American Indian, Alaskan and Hawaiian Natives ) , LGBTQ+ , and/or first-generation low-income . The virtual conference is...

Summer Programs

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