New England Eye Center Resident Dan Landmann Wins Information Technology Award
$2500 award for technology advancement in healthcare
BOSTON (June 25, 2009) - Dan S. Landmann, MD (right), a senior resident at New England Eye Center at Tufts Medical 
Center is the recipient of the 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society's Information Technology Award. A student from the University of Massachusetts Medical School also received this award. Each recipient will receive $2,500.
Presented annually by the state medical society to one medical student and one resident, fellow, or intern, the honor recognizes the development of an information technology tool that helps physicians practice medicine, teach medicine, or pursue clinical research. The awards were presented at the Society’s Annual Meeting on May 7 at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in Boston.
Landmann, while volunteering in Guatemala in August of 2008 as a member of the surgical team of Hospital de la Familia Foundation, noticed the lack of communication between groups and created an information technology vehicle to solve the problem: an easy-to-use website to facilitate communication so all participants could communicate with past, present, and future volunteers. This eliminated a bottle-neck in transferring information, thereby improving quality patient care in a third world country. He also helped to build an ophthalmology clinic and surgery center, and was part of a team that performed over 100 cataract surgeries.
A graduate of Tufts University School of Engineering with a B.S. Magna Cum Laude in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, he earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tufts in 2003 and his M.D. from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 2005. Dan will earn his fifth degree from Tufts when he completes his fellowship in Oculo-Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, having just finished his residency here as well.
He is the founder and president of DrMail.MD Communications, a company providing personal and professional e-mail to physicians and is the lead physician and engineer at an Ophthalmic Device Company, working on novel medical device development.
He is also co-chair of the Young Health Professional Group of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, which unites physicians, consultants, biotech and medical device professionals through education, philanthropy and volunteerism.
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Contact: William R. Sacco, New England Eye Center
(617) 636-1055 or wsacco@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
About New England Eye Center (NEEC)
The New England Eye Center is the ophthalmology department at Tufts Medical Center, a major academic and tertiary referral medical center, seeing approximately 85,000 patient visits per year and providing the highest quality tertiary ophthalmic services with referrals from all over the world. During the last three years alone, New England Eye Center physicians have led or participated in approximately 30 clinical trials and currently more than a dozen clinical trials are underway.
About the Massachusetts Medical Society
The Massachusetts Medical Society, with more than 21,000 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The Society publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading global medical journal and web site, and Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education for health care professionals throughout Massachusetts, conducting a variety of medical education programs for physicians and health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country. For more information please visit www.massmed.org, www.nejm.org, or www.jwatch.org.