Posts by Marlene L. Durand, MD
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The Latest Thinking on Infectious Keratitis
Infectious disease physicians Marlene L. Durand, MD, and Miriam B. Barshak, MD, and cornea specialist James Chodosh, MD, MPH, from Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, reviewed for non-ophthalmologists the latest thinking about the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious keratitis.
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Antibiotics Not Needed After Most Sinus Surgeries, Study Reports
Researchers Stacey T. Gray, MD, and Eric H. Holbrook, MD, of Mass Eye and Ear, worked with Marlene L. Durand, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass Eye and Ear, to perform a randomized, double-blind clinical trial that compared the effect of the antibiotic amoxicillin-clavulanate on endoscopic sinus surgery patients to that of a placebo.
Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear/Massachusetts General Hospital combines the expertise of highly specialized ear, nose, and throat physicians, audiologists, speech-language pathologists and auxiliary health care professionals to provide care for patients with problems affecting the ear, nose, throat, head and neck areas. The department, which is led by Chief and Chair Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, is one of the largest otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (OHNS) departments in the country, with more than 70 physicians staffed at 15 locations in the greater Boston area.
