The Department of Ophthalmology was well represented at this year’s Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO)...

Four out of 24 Heed fellowships were awarded to Harvard Ophthalmology trainees for AY2019-2020. These fellowships are funded by the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation and the Society of Heed Fellows. Congratulations to:

• Jose D. Diaz, MD
• Kareem Moussa, MD
• Huy V. Nguyen, MD
• Elizabeth Rossin, MD, PhD

... Read more about Harvard Ophthalmology Trainees Awarded Heed Fellowships

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

Congratulations to our residents who have matched with outstanding fellowship programs:

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Zhongxiao (Iris) Wang, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, recevied a $65,000 Pediatric Ophthalmology Career-Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.... Read more about Trainee Receives Knights of Templar Eye Foundation Grant

Thirty-two Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass. Eye and Ear clinical trainees graduated on June 21. The ceremony, held at Mass. Eye and Ear, celebrated eight Harvard Ophthalmology residents, the AY 2017-2018 chief resident, and two optometry residents, as well as 21 clinical fellows from Mass. Eye and Ear, Joslin Diabetes Center, and Boston Children’s Hospital.... Read more about Congratulations to the Class of 2018

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 project under the guidance of her mentor Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD.

Dr. Liu earned her MD with honors from the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, and a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard University. While at Harvard, she received the Presidential Scholarship and Martha Gray Prize for Excellence in Research.

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 Ophthalmology graduates: the late Dr. Ruthanne Simmons and her father Dr. Richard Simmons, a generous supporter of Mass. Eye and Ear and the ...

A paper written by Harvard Ophthalmology faculty Ivana K. Kim, MD; Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD; John B. Miller, MD; ...

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 School of Medicine
• ...

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 Foundation (VRSF) strives to promote education and research related to retinal and macular diseases. They support research by funding awards for young investigators with a potential for a career devoted to retinal disease and research.  The VRSF has established a competitive Research Award/Fellowship to encourage young physicians to...

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.

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Congratulations to our Chief Resident and senior residents, who have matched with outstanding fellowship programs:

• Jonathan Chou, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, Stanford University
• ...

Santiago Delgado-Tirado, MD, MSc, a research fellow under the mentorship ofJoseph 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 years beginning in January 2018, was given for his project, "Runx1...

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 faculty members who are training in the area of Cornea, Refractive Surgery, and External Diseases. They will receive these awards on November 11, 2017 at the Claes...