Reza Dana, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.

Dr. Reza Dana, in addition to his role as Senior Scientist and Co-Director of Research at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, holds the Claes H. Dohlman Chair in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of the Cornea & Refractive Surgery Service at the Mass. Eye & Ear, and serves as the Vice Chairman of the Harvard Department of Ophthalmology and Associate Chief of Ophthalmology for Academic Programs at Mass. Eye and Ear.
Dr. Dana was born in Tehran, Iran. He grew up in Tehran, principally educated at the “Iranzamin” Tehran International School, but also attended schools in England and France, before coming to the United States at age 14 to attend boarding school in New England. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, he completed his bachelor’s (Phi Beta Kappa), graduate, and medical education at Johns Hopkins University. He performed his residency in Ophthalmology at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary in Chicago, followed by a clinical fellowship in Cornea and External Diseases at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.  Dr. Dana then completed additional fellowship training in Immunology and Uveitis at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and in Ocular and Transplantation Immunology at the Schepens Eye Research Institute. Dr. Dana also holds a Master of Science degree in Management from Harvard University.
Dr. Dana has been a member of the full-time Harvard faculty since 1995. As a clinician-scientist, he has a particular interest in the molecular and cellular mechanisms of inflammation as they pertain to the ocular surface and anterior segment pathologies, including dry eye, allergy, wound healing responses, and transplant rejection.
Dr. Dana’s research is supported by the NIH in addition to grants from research foundations, such as Eye Bank Association of America and Research to Prevent Blindness, biotech and pharmaceutical companies, and the US Department of Defense. Dr. Dana has authored nearly 220 publications-including over 150 peer-reviewed articles, in addition to many reviews and book chapters. He has delivered more than 120 invited and named lectures worldwide, and has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the Research to Prevent Blindness William and Mary Greve Special Scholar Award, RPB Physician-Scientist Merit Award, RPB Lew Wasserman Merit Award, the Achievement Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Cogan Award of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the Alcon Research Institute Award. Dr. Dana has served as editor of the Eye and Systemic Disease volume of The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology and as member of the faculty of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Basic Clinical and Science Course where he was responsible for content in Cornea and External Diseases, and the Senior Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Eye, due to be published in 2010 by Elsevier. Further, Dr. Dana is on the editorial board of the journals Cornea, IOVS, and Ocular Surface, and is an Associate Examiner of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
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Education

M.D., M.P.H., 1989, The Johns Hopkins University
M.Sc., 2005, Harvard University

Contact

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