Deborah Pavan Langston, MD, FACS

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Specialty Area

Cornea and external disease, anterior segment conditions, Herpetic ocular illness and pain management.

Address

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

MEEI

Tel: 617-573-4041
Fax: 617-573-4369

Clinical Background

Medical School

Cornell University Medical School

Residency

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Ophthalmology

Fellowship

Cornea and External Disease, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Intern in Medicine, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
Clinical Fellow in Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
USPHS Research Fellow in Virology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Professor John F. Enders, PhD
Department of Pathology Student Research Fellow in Oncogenic Viruses, Cornell Medical School, New York, NY
NIH Training Grant Research Fellow in Virology and Uveitis, Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Corneal Fellow, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA., Professor Claes H. Dohlman.
Senior Research Fellow (Ocular Virology), Department of Cornea Research, Eye Research Institute of Retina Foundation, Boston, MA.

Board Certification

Ophthalmology

Professional Affiliations

American Academy of Ophthalmology, New England Ophthalmological Society, American Medical Women’s Association, Massachusetts Medical Society, Castroviejo Corneal Society (charter member) / Cornea Society, Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Senior Fellow, American College of Surgeons

Clinical and Research Interests

Cornea and external disease, anterior segment. Viral infections of the eye Herpes simplex (cold sore virus), Herpes zoster (shingles). Zoster pain management. Keratoprosthesis Implantation in Herpes simplex and zoster Neurotrophic Keratopathy.

What would you like your patients to know about you?

For patient and physician education and information see the links below for the Harvard/MGH Shingles Center.

Recent Awards

Castroviejo Medalist/ Honored Lecturer – American Academy of Ophth. Chicago
Clanet Kok vanAlphen Lecturer, Dutch Ophth Soc/European Eye Bank, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Keynote speaker: Ocular Infectious Disease International Meeting, Paulista Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Phillips Thygeson Honored Lecturer and Plaque recipient, OMIG & American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago
Dohlman Lecturer and Plaque recipient, 24th Biennial Cornea Research Conference
Harvard Medical School/MEEI, Schepens ER Institute, Tufts, Boston University Medical School, Boston.

Selected Publications

Please see the CV (click).
See also below.

Simon, A, Pavan-Langston, D, Long-term oral acyclovir: Effect on recurrent infectious herpes simplex keratitis in grafted and non-grafted patients, Ophthalmology, 103:1399-1405, 1996. Republished in Yearbook of Ophthalmology by request of Mosby Yearbook editorial board. 1997
Pavan-Langston, D, Viral Disease of the Ocular Anterior Segment: Basic science and clinical disease. In The Cornea,ed. Foster, S, Azar, D, Dohlman, C . 2005 ed 4th ed. 297-397
Pavan-Langston, D, (author/editor): Manual of Ocular Diagnosis and Therapeutics. 5th edition, Lippencott, Williams, Wilkins, Baltimore, 2002. (528 pp). Also in Spanish, Asian, Portuguese and Greek editions. 6th edition in press
Harvard Medical School/MEEI, Schepens ER Institute, Tufts, Boston University Medical School, Boston

Publications

A complete list of research publications can be seen at www.pubmed.gov. Type the physician's name at the top, where it says 'for' and the physician's research publications will appear.