Christine Ament, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Ament graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in field and magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1997. She graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2002 and from the Harvard Ophthalmology Residency at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in 2006. She completed a cornea fellowship at Boston Medical Center and then joined the ophthalmology faculty at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and is Assistant Ophthalmology Program Director in charge of resident educational curriculum. She coordinates the resident didactic curriculum and board exam review. She has published over twenty-five original articles, presentations, and abstracts and edited a textbook on cataract surgery. She speaks Spanish, intermediate Portuguese and basic Haitian Creole. Her interests include medical education and immigrant health. She was on the board of Codman Square Health Center 2020-23 and serves on the Harvard Medical School Medical Education Committee.

Publications

  • Published 1/1/2011

    Ament CS, Henderson BA. Optimizing resident education in cataract surgery. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2011 Jan; 22(1):64-7. PMID: 21107259.

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  • Published 1/12/2010

    Ozsunar Y, Mullins ME, Kwong K, Hochberg FH, Ament C, Schaefer PW, Gonzalez RG, Lev MH. Glioma recurrence versus radiation necrosis? A pilot comparison of arterial spin-labeled, dynamic susceptibility contrast enhanced MRI, and FDG-PET imaging. Acad Radiol. 2010 Mar; 17(3):282-90. PMID: 20060750.

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  • Published 7/28/2008

    Ribeiro JCML, Chiu CS, Ament C, Loewenstein JI. A 34-year-old man with visual complaints and a tapetal-like reflex. Digit J Ophthalmol. 2008; 14:35-38. PMID: 29440978.

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  • Published 9/1/2007

    Henderson BA, Kim JY, Ament CS, Ferrufino-Ponce ZK, Grabowska A, Cremers SL. Clinical pseudophakic cystoid macular edema. Risk factors for development and duration after treatment. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2007 Sep; 33(9):1550-8. PMID: 17720069.

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  • Published 3/1/2007

    Mocan MC, Ament C, Azar NF. The characteristics and surgical outcomes of medial rectus recessions in Graves' ophthalmopathy. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2007 Mar-Apr; 44(2):93-100; quiz 118-9. PMID: 17410960.

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Education

  • Harvard Medical School, MD
  • Harvard College, AB

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