Jeremy Wolfe, PhD—Professor of both Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Visual Attention Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital—has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.... Read more about Jeremy M. Wolfe Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2019

Congratulations to Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, director of the Morse Laser Center at Mass. Eye and Ear, on receiving the inaugural Harvard Ophthalmology Excellence in Mentoring Award. The Harvard Ophthalmology Mentoring program was created in 2014 to help direct and support junior faculty members and create a culture of achievement.... Read more about Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, Recognized with Harvard Ophthalmology Excellence in Mentoring Award

Saghar Bagheri, MD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear under the mentorship of Dr. Demetrios Vavvas, has been invited to participate in the Members-in-Training Outstanding Poster Award Competition at the ARVO Annual Meeting. She received one of the top five scored abstracts in the Retina section for her work entitled, "Anti-VEGF non-responders are often short-term responders." The competition will take place on Tuesday, April 30, 4:15-5:45 p.m., in the Exhibit Hall. Award recipients will be recognized at the Thursday Keynote Session. 
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Evangelos Gragoudas, MD, will once again offer an award for outstanding work in retina published by a Mass. Eye and Ear Trainee. For 2019, there will again be two $5,000 prizes, one for clinical work and one for basic or translational.... Read more about Submissions Open for 2019 Gragoudas Prize

Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Research at HMS, and Co-Director of the Harvard Ophthalmology AMD Center of Excellence, received the Barbara McNeil Award for Exceptional Service.... Read more about Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, Receives Barbara McNeil Award

Nazlee Zebardast, MD, MSc, has been selected to receive the Mentoring for Advancement of Physicians-Scientists (MAPS) Award by the American Glaucoma Society (AGS). The award, presented to clinicians at the early stages of their academic careers to facilitate their glaucoma research, will provide $10,000 over 1 year.... Read more about Dr. Zebardast Receives MAPS Award from AGS

Congratulations to Harvard Ophthalmology faculty who are recognized in Boston magazine’s 2019 Top Doctors list. Physicians are selected by their peers via an online nomination process established by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a health care research and information company.... Read more about Boston's Top Doctors 2019

On October 26, Joan W. Miller, MD, the David Glendenning Cogan Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, received the 2018 Charles L. Schepens, MD/American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Award.... Read more about Joan W. Miller—First Woman to Receive the Charles L. Schepens MD/American Academy of Ophthalmology Award

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute at Harvard Medical School, and the Associate Chief for Clinical Research in Ophthalmology and Interim Glaucoma Service Director at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

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Rosario Fernandez-Godino, PhD, MSc, has been selected to receive the BrightFocus Foundation Award. The award, presented by the foundation’s Macular Degeneration Research Program to investigators who have generated promising preliminary data on potential treatments for macular degeneration, will provide $160,000 of support over two years.... Read more about Dr. Fernandez-Godino Receives BrightFocus Foundation Award

Rachel M. Huckfeldt, MD, PhD, has been selected to receive a Career Development Award from Foundation Fighting Blindness. The award, which is given to two junior clinical investigators who are studying retinal degenerative diseases, will provide $375,000 of support over five years.... Read more about Dr. Huckfeldt Receives Foundation Fighting Blindness Award

Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, has been awarded a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein Innovation Award in the amount of $300,000 over three years. ... Read more about Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, Awarded Research to Prevent Blindness Stein Innovation Award

Celebrated award honors distinguished achievements in ophthalmology

Joan W. Miller, MD, the David Glendenning Cogan Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been named the 2018 recipient of the celebrated Lucien Howe Medal from the American Ophthalmological Society (AOS) for her distinguished service to the fields of retina and ophthalmology. ... Read more about Joan W. Miller, MD, Receives Howe Medal from American Ophthalmological Society