Saghar Bagheri, MD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear under the mentorship of Dr. Demetrios Vavvas, has been invited to participate in the Members-in-Training Outstanding Poster Award Competition at the ARVO Annual Meeting. She received one of the top five scored abstracts in the Retina section for her work entitled, "Anti-VEGF non-responders are often short-term responders." The competition will take place on Tuesday, April 30, 4:15-5:45 p.m., in the Exhibit Hall. Award recipients will be recognized at the Thursday Keynote Session.
Additionally, Saghar received a American Macular Degeneration Foundation Travel Grants from ARVO. This grant provides partial travel support to attend the ARVO 2019 Annual Meeting in Vancouver. She is one of nine ARVO travel grant recipients representing Harvard Ophthalmology.