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Nearly 40 Harvard Ophthalmology faculty and trainees from our affiliates—including Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Mass. Eye and Ear, and VA Boston Healthcare System—participated in the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting October 11-15 in San...

The Harvard Ophthalmology Mentoring Program has been recognized with the 2019 Program Award for a Culture of Excellence in Mentoring (PACEM) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This award was established to recognize departments, divisions, offices or programs for their efforts to foster innovation and...

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...

New research led by Kip Connor, PhD, finds that microglia—the primary immune cells of the central nervous system, including the retina—play a vital role in regulating neuroinflammation in autoimmune uveitis. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and featured on...

The Department of Ophthalmology was well represented at this year’s Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, held April 22 through May 2 in Vancouver, British Columbia. More than 160 faculty and trainees participated as course instructors, panelists, lecturers and...

Earlier this month, otologists from around the globe gathered in Boston for the 2019 International Otopathology Society meeting. Sponsored in part by the NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing, and Balance Pathology Resource Registry at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, members of the society meet in...

Read original oped here: USA Today: Trump's transgender ban is cruel, medically unethical and damaging to the US military by Robert H. Goldstein Though President Donald Trump tweeted his solidarity with LGBT Americans as PRIDE month began, his actions speak louder than words. His administration’s...

Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School gathered in the Meltzer Auditorium at Massachusetts Eye and Ear on Friday, June 21, to celebrate the 2019 graduating class of residents and fellows. Five chief residents and 11 clinical fellows...

Alexis Worthley, BA, won the Outstanding Paper Award and the Travel Award by the American Laryngological Association (ALA) for the presentation: "A separation of innate and learned vocal behaviors defines the symptomatology of spasmodic dysphonia". She delivered her talk at the COSM-ALA meeting on...

Davide Valeriani, PhD, won the People’s Choice Abstract Award for the poster: “Automatic Diagnosis of Spasmodic Dysphonia with Structural MRI and Machine Learning” presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) on June 9-13, 2019, in Rome, Italy.