Welcome to the American Head and Neck Society!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

July 1, 2009:

The University of Pittsburgh has filled all three of their 2010 fellowship positions. Wayne State has filled their 2010 fellowship position. These programs are no longer available to accept any candidates for their 2010 fellowship programs.

The 2010 AHNS Fellowship Program Match Results were released today. The following people were matched to the programs listed below. Congatulations to all.

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: Charles Coffey
Rafael Toro-Serra
Mark Zafereo
Medical University of South Carolina: Trinitia Cannon
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Natalya Chernichenko
Rahmatullah Rahmati
Kelli Salter
Ohio State University: Hassan Arshad
Roswell Park Cancer Institute: Liana Lugo
University of Kansas: Mark Furin
University of Miami: Joshua Rosenberg
University of Michigan: Sumeet Anand
Syed Naweed Raza
University of Pennsylvania: Tom Thomas
University of Pittsburgh: Andrew Tassler
Irene Zhang
University of South Florida: James May
University of Toronto: Eric Bissada
Marc Cohen
University of Washington: Thomas Gernon

  • Free Head and Neck Surgery Review Course for Residents and Fellows
    We are pleased to annouce the schedule for the 4th Annual George A. Sisson Head and Neck Oncology Resident Education Symposium to be held during the AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA on Saturday, October 3, 2009 from 11:30 AM - 5:30 PM. It will be held at the San Diego Convention Center and is free to all Otolaryngology residents and fellow. For more information and to RSVP, please contact admin@ahns.info. For more information and the schedule, please click here »

  • Prevention and Early Detection Grant Award
    The Prevention and Early Detection congratulates "Estelle Yoo, MD, Teresa Harris, RN, Ellen Lewis, NP and Cherie-Ann Nathan, MD from the Louisiana State University-Health Sciences Center, Shreveport for winning the AHNS 2009 Prevention and Early Detection Community Service Grant for their submission "Reaching out to the Increasing Homeless in a Mobile Screening Unit in Northern Louisiana". The committee would also like to present an Honorable Mention to Pankaj Chaturvedi, MD from Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbia, India for their submission "Capacity Building of Oral Cancer Patients as Advocates for Oral Health in their local Community- A Pilot Study".

  • For information on a NEW AHNS Initiative, the AHNS Humanitarian Project, an endeavor of AHNS to support members interested in humanitarian outreach activities, please click here »

ANNUAL MEETING

Fellowship Program: The 2011 Fellowship Application will be available in November.

New Early Fellowship Application Timeline for the 2011 Match:

Fellowships beginning: July 1, 2011
New Earlier Application Period: November 2009- June 1, 2010
Interview Period: January 2010-June 2010
Candidates & Program Directors Submit Match List by: June 15, 2010
Notification of Result: July 1, 2010

For information, please visit the Resident/Fellow Corner.

Congratulations to the new AHNS officers and fellows-at-large.

President-Elect: John A. Ridge, MD, PhD
Vice President: David W. Eisele, MD
Fellows-at-Large: Jonathan Irish, MD, FACS; C. René Leemans, MD, PhD; Jeffrey N. Myers, MD, PhD

Three New Fellowship Programs: We have added three more excellent fellowship programs to the AHNS match. Congratulations to the University of Alabama-Birmingham, the University of Kansas and the Medical University of South Carolina. They will be part of the 2010 fellowship match.

Congratulations to Carsten Palmer, the winner of The American Head and Neck Society and the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society Chris O'Brien Traveling Fellowship 2008.

RESEARCH AWARDS

Congratulations to the 2009 AHNS Award Winners!

  • AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant: Alec Vaezi, MD, University of Pittsburgh "Implications of Abnormal Mitosis in Chromosomal Instability and Tumorigenesis"
  • AHNS Pilot Research Grant: Raewyn Seaberg, MD, PhD, University of Toronto, "MECT1-MAML2 Fusion Transcript in Patients with Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma"
  • AHNS Pilot Research Grant: Irina Chaikhoutdinov, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "Characterization of Squamous Cell Carcinoma Related Oncogene 5/DCUN1D5"
  • AHNS/AAO-HNS Young Investigator Award: Babak Givi, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "MAPK Pathway as a Determinant of Vaccinia Oncolytic Efficacy in Thyroid Cancer"
  • AHNS/AAO-HNS Young Investigator Award: Rutherford (Weg) Ongkeko, MD University of California: San Diego, "BMI1 in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Stem Cells"
  • AHNS/AAO-HNS Surgeon Scientist Career Development Award: Neil Gross, MD, Oregon Health and Science University, "Phase I/II Study of Postoperative Adjuvant Chemoradiation for Cutaneous SCCHN"

Read all about the AHNS Award program here http://ahns.info/research/grants.php.
Read the Grant Reports http://ahns.info/research/reports.php, written by previous winners, including Dr. Wang's report on Hyaluronan Signaling in Head and Neck Cancer Progression.

The Prevention Committee has posted a position statement on Screening for Head and Neck Cancer located here.

PowerPoint presentations from recent annual meetings and invited lecturers are posted in the Clinical Resources section.

Featured Lectures:

Powerpoints and Panel/Keynote Video from the 7th International Conference are available in the Meeting Archives.

Presentations from the 3rd Annual Head and Neck Oncology Resident Education Symposium

To download Dr. Gerald Healy's Presidential Address during the October 7-11, 2007 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, printed in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons,
please click here

FUTURE AND RELATED MEETINGS

EDUCATION RESOURCES

  • PowerPoint presentations from recent annual meetings and invited lecturers are posted in the Clinical Resources section. 23 presentations are available. The presentations from the 2007 meeting are available.

  • More information on Otobase is available in the Otobase section.

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

  • The AHNS Credentials Committee and the Executive Council welcome our new members of 2009. Congratulations! To see the list of new members, please click here»

  • Applications are now being accepted for consideration in 2010. The deadline for all required documents for 2010 is October 31, 2009. For more membership application information, please click here.

  • Members may order a membership certificate using this form (Active, Corresponding, and Associate members only).

FOUNDATION AND CORPORATE INFORMATION

AHNS Council

   
Fellows-At-Large:
President
John A. Ridge, M.D., Ph.D.
  
Jay O. Boyle, M.D. 2009-2012
President-Elect
David W. Eisele, M.D.
  
Brian B. Burkey, M.D. 2009-2012
Vice President
Carol R. Bradford, M.D.
  
Marion E. Couch, M.D., Ph.D. 2007-2010
Secretary
Dennis H. Kraus, M.D.
  
Ramon Esclamado, M.D 2007-2010
Treasurer
Mark K. Wax, M.D.
  
Jonathan Irish, M.D., FACS 2008-2011
Past-Presidents
Wayne M. Koch, M.D.
  
Pierre Lavertu, M.D. 2009-2012
Gregory T. Wolf, M.D.
  
C. René Leemans, M.D., Ph.D. 2008-2011
Randal S. Weber, M.D.
  
Jeffrey N. Myers, M.D., Ph.D. 2008-2011
 
 
Peter C. Neligan, M.D. 2007-2010