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Published on May 3, 2019 by AHNS Webmaster

2019 AHNS Awards Ceremony Winners!

2019 AHNS Awards Ceremony

Presenters:

Neal Futran, MD
Institution: University of Washington, School of Medicine, Awards Service Chair

Patrick Ha, MD
Institution: University of California San Francisco, Grants Service Chair

 

AHNS Myers’ Family Diversity Summer Travel Fellowship Award
2018 Awardee Mr. Frantzlee LaCrete, MS3
Institution: 
University of Nebraska

African Head and Neck Society on behalf of American Head and Neck Society Scholar Award
Anna Konney MD, FWACS, FGCS
Institution: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa

Margaret F. Butler Outstanding Mentor of Women in Head and Neck Surgery Award #BeLikeButler
2019 Awardee: Marion E. Couch, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS

Best Prevention and Early Detection Paper Award
Alia Mowery, MS3
Entitled work: “Elevated Risk of Head and Neck Cancer in Patients with History of Hematologic Malignancy”
Institution: Oregon Health and Science University

Best Prevention and Early Detection Paper Award
Nicole Craker MD, MPH
Entitled work: “Chronic Opioid Use After Laryngeal Cancer Treatment”
Institution: University of Kentucky Medical Center

Best Resident Basic Science Paper Award
Cory Fulcher, MD
Entitled work: “The CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib demonstrates efficacy alone and in combination with radiation in HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell”
Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Randall Weber, MD Quality, Safety and Value Award
Shaum Sridharan, MD (donated half of monetary prize amount to AHNS)
Entitled work: “Early Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma with Histologically Benign Lymph Nodes: A Model Predicting Local Control and Vetting of the 8th edition of AJCC pT Stage”
Institution: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

Robert Maxwell Byers Award
Marco A. Mascarella, MD
Entitled work: “Preoperative Risk Index for Patients Undergoing Head and Neck Cancer Surgery”
Institution: McGill University

Best Resident Clinical Paper Award
Andrew Larson, MD
Entitled work: “Beyond Depth of Invasion: Adverse Pathologic Tumor Features in Early Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma”
Institution: University of California San Francisco

AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Grant
Emily Marchiano, MD
Entitled work: “Analysis of Novel Technologies to Assess Worst Pattern of Invasion”
Institution: The Regents of the University of Michigan

AHNS Pilot Research Grant
Hannah Knochelmann, BS
Entitled work:“Defining the role of CD26 in checkpoint blockade induced tumor immunity”
Institution: Medical University of South Carolina

AHNS Pilot Research Grant
Alok Khandelwal, Ph.D
Entitled work: “Targeting CXCL17/GPR35 axis in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma” I
Institution: LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport (LSUHSCS)

 
AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigators Combined Grant
Marietta Tan, MD
Entitled work: “Intramuscular prime-intratumoral boost vaccination for HPV-positive cancer”
Institution: Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine

AHNS/AAO-HNSF Translational Innovator Combined Award
Vlad Sandulache, MD
Entitled work: “Mitochondrial regulation of tumor immune microenvironment”
Institution: Baylor College of Medicine

AHNS Endocrine Surgery Section Eisai Research Award
Sina Dadafarin, BS
Entitled work: “Mechanisms of Androgen-Mediated PD-L1 Attenuation in Thyroid Cancer”
Institution: New York Medical College

AHNS Endocrine Surgery Section Stryker Research Award
Jennifer Wherley, MD
Entitled work: “Thyroid tumor microenvironment in nodules with indeterminate FNA”
Institution: Oregon Health & Science University

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