Rachel Huckfeldt, MD, PhD
Dr. Rachel Huckfeldt is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a clinician-scientist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. She completed her MD and PhD training at Washington University in St. Louis with PhD research focused on retinal development. After finishing her ophthalmology residency at Mass Eye and Ear, Dr. Huckfeldt conducted postdoctoral research focused on novel therapeutics in the lab of Dr. Jean Bennett at the University of Pennsylvania followed by clinical fellowships in medical retina (University of Iowa) and inherited retinal disorders (Mass Eye and Ear).
Dr. Huckfeldt’s clinical practice and clinical research are focused on inherited retinal disorders (IRDs) like retinitis pigmentosa, and she has experience with Usher syndrome from both of these endeavors. At Mass Eye and Ear, she is the Director of IRD Clinical Trials as well as the Director of the Inherited Retinal Degenerations clinical fellowship. Dr. Huckfeldt is also the Co-Chair of the Foundation Fighting Blindness Clinical Consortium, which has conducted multiple natural history studies focused on Usher syndrome genes.
