Stephan Ong Tone Receives Claes H. Dohlman Fellowship Award

September 4, 2019

Mass. Eye and Ear fellow Stephan Ong Tone, MDCM, PhD, FRCSC, is the co-winner (with Nakul Shekhawat, MD, MPH, of the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University) of the 2019 Claes H. Dohlman MD, PhD, Fellowship Award.... Read more about Stephan Ong Tone Receives Claes H. Dohlman Fellowship Award

Resident Noam Rudnick Receives Gragoudas-Folkman Award

August 8, 2019

noam-rudnick Second-year Harvard Ophthalmology resident Noam Rudnick, MD, PhD, received the 2019 Gragoudas-Folkman Award, which will provide up to $20,000 to help fund his research on cell type-specific roles of autophagy in age-related macular degeneration.... Read more about Resident Noam Rudnick Receives Gragoudas-Folkman Award

2019 Trainee Graduation

June 28, 2019

2019 Residents

Thirty-two Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass. Eye and Ear clinical trainees graduated on Thursday, June 20th. The ceremony celebrated eight Harvard Ophthalmology residents, the AY 2018–2019 Chief Resident and one optometry resident, as well as 22 clinical fellows from Mass. Eye and Ear, Joslin Diabetes Center and Boston Children’s Hospital.... Read more about 2019 Trainee Graduation

Researchers Identify Viral Peptides Critical to Natural HIV Control

May 7, 2019

Investigators at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have used a novel approach to identify specific amino acids in the protein structure of HIV that appear critical to the ability of the virus to function and replicate.... Read more about Researchers Identify Viral Peptides Critical to Natural HIV Control

Highlights from the 2019 ARVO Annual Meeting

May 7, 2019

ARVO 2019 Sky Shot

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

Harvard Ophthalmology Trainees Awarded Heed Fellowships

April 30, 2019

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

Submissions Open for 2019 Gragoudas Prize

January 18, 2019

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

Fellowship Matches for AY 2019

December 18, 2018

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

Trainee Receives Knights of Templar Eye Foundation Grant

July 16, 2018

Knights of Templar 2018 Awardee

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

Congratulations to the Class of 2018

June 27, 2018

Ophthalmology residents class of 2018

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

Trainees