Mobility Enhancement & Vision Rehabilitation

Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a clinician scientist at Mass Eye and Ear, has been named the inaugural Frederick and Thaddeus Jakobiec Chair in Ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear. An...

Eli Peli, MSc, OD, will receive the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research 2020 Oberdorfer Award in Low Vision for his contributions to the field. As part of his award, Eli will present at the ARVO 2020 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

Eli Peli, MSc, OD , is the recipient of the 2018 Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School. He will receive the award during a ceremony at Harvard Medical School on April 30, 2018. The Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award was...

Eli Peli, MSc, OD , Professor of Ophthalmology, was the invited keynote speaker at two conferences in China in October and November. On October 26, he gave the keynote talk, “Treatments for neurological visual field loss,” at the first Shenzhen...

Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear released a new vision assistive app that acts as a “smart magnifying glass” to help people with low vision search for keywords in the physical world. Developed in the laboratory of...

Jae-Hyun Jung, PhD, is the recipient of the 2017 Alice J. Adler Fellowship of the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear in the amount of $30,000 over one year for his project, “The best field expansion configuration for using multiplexing...

Information for this release was provided by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Rockville, Md. — Vision scientists may have discovered how to reduce pedestrian collisions in crowded and chaotic open space environments like bus...

A series of novel optical designs may address some limitations of existing prism technology, which can expand visual fields by up to 30 degrees Boston, Mass. — Researchers from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard...

Mass. Eye and Ear researchers have designed technology to improve upon the built-in zoom feature of smartphones, which many low-vision users find difficult to use due to a loss of context. BOSTON – Researchers from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of...

Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School neuro-ophthalmologist and researcher awarded funding by the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. Joseph F. Rizzo III, MD, has been awarded grant funding as part of the Vision...