Trainees

First-year Harvard Ophthalmology resident Wendy Liu, MD, PhD, received the 2018 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund her research on mechanosensitive ion channels in primary open-angle glaucoma. She will complete the...

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...

A paper written by Harvard Ophthalmology faculty Ivana K. Kim, MD; Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD; John B. Miller, MD; Joan W. Miller, MD; Teresa C. Chen, MD; and Deeba Husain, MD ; research fellow Inês Laíns, MD; and former research fellow Edem Tsikata...

The following individuals have matched into the Harvard Ophthalmology Residency Program as the class of 2022: Sila Bal, University of Pennsylvania-Perelman School of Medicine Carolina Chiou, Harvard Medical School Jacob Cox, Johns Hopkins University...

The VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation recognized four trainees with research awards and fellowships, enabling them to pursue research investigations at Mass. Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear. The VitreoRetinal Surgery...

Dr. Evangelos Gragoudas will once again offer an award for outstanding work in retina published by a Mass. Eye and Ear Trainee. For 2018, there will again be two $5,000 prizes, one for clinical work and one for basic or translational. Competition Rules...

Congratulations to our Chief Resident and senior residents, who have matched with outstanding fellowship programs: Jonathan Chou, MD , Glaucoma Fellow, Stanford University Isaiah Giese, MD , ASOPRS Fellow in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery...

Santiago Delgado-Tirado, MD, MSc, a research fellow under the mentorship of Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD, and Leo Kim, MD, PhD, received the Alfonso Martin Escudero Foundation Fellowship. This fellowship, which is in the amount of $88,500 over two...

Miguel González, MD, PhD, Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear, and Hajirah Saeed, MD , Instructor in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, are co-winners of the 2017 Claes Dohlman Fellowship Award. This award recognizes outstanding fellows and junior...

James “Tony” Stefater, MD, PhD, a vitreoretinal fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear, received the 2017 Vitreoretinal Research Scholarship from the Robert Machemer Foundation in the amount of $20,000 over one year. His winning project, “Development of a novel post...