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It is with heartfelt sadness that we announce that Frederick A. Jakobiec, MD, DSc, passed away peacefully at the age of 78 on November 14, 2020. An international leader in eye pathology and the former Chair of Harvard Ophthalmology and Chief of Mass Eye and Ear Department of Ophthalmology, Dr...

David M. Wu, MD, PhD, the Joan Whitten Miller Retina Scholar at Mass Eye and Ear and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, is a 2021 recipient of the Edward N. & Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation Awards Program in Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Research. The two...

Patricia D'Amore, PhD, MBA, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research at Harvard Ophthalmology, has been awarded the 2020 Earl P. Benditt Award from the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO) in...

Wednesday, February 17 th from 7:45 – 8:45 PM EST Though SNMA dinners with physicians are on a temporary hiatus, we wanted to recreate the experience ~virtually~. Chat with Black womxn physicians from a variety of specialties regarding any and everything. No topics are off-limits! Feel free to...

Empower: A Symposium on Underrepresented Voices in Medicine is geared toward pre-medical students at all stages who are historically underrepresented in medicine (e.g. Black, Latinx, Native, Alaskan and Hawaiian Natives), LGBTQIA+, and first-generation low-income pre-medical students. The conference...

HMPA would like to announce our new Arts Initiative: a collection of events and programming designed to celebrate the artistic side of our scientific researchers. Through our recent survey, TEA Times, and social media solicitations, we came to realize how talented our constituents are in areas...

Boston, Mass. — A team of surgeons at Massachusetts Eye and Ear found that, of 173 patients undergoing rhinoplasty, a common procedure performed in the facial plastic and reconstructive surgery field, only two refilled their opioid prescriptions after the procedure—with some patients not filling...

In two companion studies— “The Effect of Botulinum Toxin Augmentation on Strabismus Surgery for Large-Angle Infantile Esotropia” and “Long-term Surgical Outcomes for Large-angle Infantile Esotropia”—just published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)...

Faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School had an excellent representation in Atlanta, Georgia at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) earlier this month. There were more than 90 outstanding presentations by our...

New research findings from a study led by Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD, Dr med, show the potential of a new oral drug for spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder affecting the muscles of the larynx or voice box. The work was published last week in Scientific Reports. The study shows that sodium...