Advancing Education, Research, and Quality of Care for the Head and Neck oncology patient.
Presented by the AHNS Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery Section
Moderator:
Marianne Abouyared, MD – University California Davis
Panelists:
Elizabeth Nicolli, MD – University of Miami
Sami Melki, MD – Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC), Abu Dhabi
Hani Marzouki, MD, MSc, FRCSC – King Abdulaziz University – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Eran Alon, MD – Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Session Description:
Experts focused in the Middle East will present complex mid-face defects and discuss the complexities in approaching this defect subsite. We will discuss various techniques including when staged reconstructions may be necessary, when local flaps may be preferred, and when to consider free tissue transfer. Difficulties with maintaining form and function when dealing with large nasal defects will also be considered.
Session Objectives:
This one-hour session is free to all registrants!
Presented by the AHNS Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery Section
Moderator:
Marianne Abouyared, MD – University California Davis
Panelists:
Elizabeth Nicolli, MD – University of Miami
Sami Melki, MD – Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC), Abu Dhabi
Hani Marzouki, MD, MSc, FRCSC – King Abdulaziz University – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Eran Alon, MD – Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Session Description:
Experts focused in the Middle East will present complex mid-face defects and discuss the complexities in approaching this defect subsite. We will discuss various techniques including when staged reconstructions may be necessary, when local flaps may be preferred, and when to consider free tissue transfer. Difficulties with maintaining form and function when dealing with large nasal defects will also be considered.
Session Objectives:
This one-hour session is free to all registrants!
Dear AHNS Members,
We are writing to request your participation in a survey on palliative care utilization for patients with Head and Neck Cancers (HNCs). With this study, our goal is to better understand the indications and situations for which practitioners use palliative care services for their patients with HNCs. Please see your email to submit answers on the survey. The survey contains 10 short questions and should take no more than 5 minutes.
Your participation is voluntary, and all responses will be anonymous. No personally identifiable information will be associated with your responses or to any reports of these data. We do not anticipate any risks from participating in this study. Your participation in this study infers informed consent. We greatly appreciate your input.
Thank you in advance for your time,
Avanti Verma, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Otolaryngology
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Hemali Shah, MD
Resident Physician, Otolaryngology
Georgetown University Hospital, Washington D.C.
A podcast brought to you by the American Head and Neck Society Featuring interviews with leaders in head and neck surgery. Now available through at ahns.info and on Spotify or iTunes.
Each of your hosts, Dr. Andrés Bur, Dr. Larissa Sweeny, Dr. Arvind Badhey, Dr. Andrew Holcomb, and Dr. Brian Cervenka, cover issues of general interest to the head and neck surgery community and topics related to career development for early-career members.
The first two episodes feature interviews with Dr. Douglas Girod, Chancellor of the University of Kansas, on the topic of leadership in academic medicine, and Dr. Stephen Lai, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at MD Anderson, on sentinel lymph node biopsy for early oral cancer.
The third episode of the AHNS Young Member’s Corner features Dr. Gina Jefferson, Professor and Chief, on Diversity within H&N Surgery – Pearls from a Female Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon at The University of Mississippi Medical Center.
The fourth episode of the AHNS Young Member’s Corner features Dr. Carole Fakhry, Director, Johns Hopkins Head and Neck Cancer Center, Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
NEW The fifth episode of the AHNS Young Member’s Corner features Dr. James Netterville, Mark C. Smith Professor of Otolaryncology Department of Otolaryncology, Director Head & Neck Oncologic Surgery and Associate Director of Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences at Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH).
Let’s connect virtually and come together on the air! Tune in now and engage by submitting questions or topic suggestions via Twitter @AHNSinfo using the hashtag #YMCPodcast