Mary Whitman

Department of Ophthalmology

Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Mary Whitman
Assistant Professor

Mary Whitman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and an Ophthalmologist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her undergraduate degree in Biochemical Sciences with honors from Harvard College and her MD and PhD in Neurobiology from Yale University. She completed clinical training in ophthalmology at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York and pediatric ophthalmology at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Whitman is one of relatively few pediatric ophthalmologists in the US who combines clinical care with basic research. Her clinical practice includes care and surgery of pediatric and adult strabismus patients. Her research interests include the development of the ocular motor system, particularly on defining the molecular cues that guide ocular motor nerves to their extraocular muscle targets. She also studies the genetic causes of both rare and common forms of strabismus.

Dr. Whitman is the recipient of a K08 award. She has previously been awarded a Knights Templar Pediatric Ophthalmology Career Starter grant, a Harvard Vision Clinical Scientist Development Program Scholarship, and—most recently—the ARVO/Alcon Early Career Clinician-Scientist Award. Nationally, Dr. Whitman serves on the Genetic Eye Disease Committee of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS).

Publications

Isolering och kultur av Oculomotor, trochlear, och spinal motoriska nervceller från prenatal ISLmn: GFP transgena möss

1Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, 2FM Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, 3Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, 4Medical Genetics Training Program, Harvard Medical School, 5Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, 6Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, 7Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, 8Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 9Department of Neurology, Kokura Memorial Hospital, 10Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

JoVE 60440

 Neuroscience

Ex vivo Oculomotor slice kultur från embryonala GFP-uttrycker möss för tidsförlopp avbildning av Oculomotor nerv utväxt

1Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, 2Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, 3F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, 4Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, 5Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, 6Howard Hughes Medical Institute

JoVE 59911

 Neuroscience