Glaucoma

Eyes On is our monthly spotlight feature highlighting faculty and staff across Harvard Ophthalmology Nandini Venkateswaran, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School; Member of the Cornea Service at Mass Eye and Ear How does your...

Researchers analyzed 79,357 visual field tests from 11,572 patients with glaucoma and identified nine visual field archetypes. When they examined genetic risk scores in 1,517 participants, they found that individuals with higher genetic risk for primary...

David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, the Albert and Diane Kaneb Chair in Ophthalmology and Director of the Glaucoma Service at Mass. Eye and Ear, has been selected by his peers to present the 2021 American Glaucoma Society Clinician-Scientist Lecture at the...

Milica Margeta, MD, PhD, has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness 2020 Career Development Award, which will provide $300,000 of support over four years. Milica is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and member of the Mass. Eye and Ear...

Nazlee Zebardast, MD— a Harvard Medical School Instructor in Ophthalmology and glaucoma specialist at Mass. Eye and Ear—has been selected for the Harvard Vision Clinician Scientist Development Program (K12). This program, funded by the National Institutes...

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...

New research shows that immune cells developed from early exposure to bacteria contribute to vision loss in glaucoma patients. A research team from Harvard Ophthalmology and MIT has shown that immune cells in the eye that developed in response to early...

Billy Xiaoyi Pan, MD , has been named the 2017-2018 Richard J. Simmons and Ruthanne B. Simmons Glaucoma Fellow in the Harvard Department of Ophthalmology. This annual award was established in 2011 in recognition of two glaucoma physicians who were Harvard...