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

AHNS Awards Ceremony took place on May 1, 2019 in Austin, Texas at COSM! 

Here is a list of the 2019 AHNS Research Paper and Scholar Awards!

Congratulations to everyone and their teams!

AHNS/AAO-HNSF Translational Innovator Combined Award

PI:  Travis P. Schrank, MD, PhD
Institution:  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Proposal:  NRF2 Mediated Radiation Resistance in HNSCC

AHNS Eddie Mendez Memorial Pilot Grant

PI:  Hannan A. Qureshi, MD
Institution: University of Washington
Proposal:  Functional analysis of the immune microenvironment in head and neck cancer

AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant

PI:  Andrey Finegersh, MD, PhD 
Institution:  University of California, San Diego, CA
Proposal:  HPV regulation of microRNA in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

AHNS Pilot Research Grant

PI:  Shethal Bearelly, MD
Institution:  University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
Proposal:  The Role of Oral Tactile Sensation in Dysphagia

 

Best Prevention Early Detection Paper 

Winner: Heidi Kletzien, MD
Institution: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Manuscript Title: “The Post-Thyroidectomy Voice: The Disconnect Between Patient-Perceived Voice Changes and Quantitative Voice Measures in the First Postoperative Year”

Best Resident Basic Science Paper 

Winner: Farshad Chowdury, MD
Institution: University of Colorado, Denver
Manuscript Title: “Invasive Front Or Tumor Core: Cancer Stem Cell Location And Correlations With Cellular Behavior And Patient Outcome”

Robert Maxwell Byers Award

Winner: Caitlin P. McMullen, MD
Institution: Moffitt Cancer Center
Manuscript Title: “Occult nodal disease and occult extranodal extension in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients undergoing primary TORS with neck dissection”

Best Resident Clinical Award

Winner: Patrick Carpenter, MD
Institution: The University of Utah School of Medicine
Manuscript Title: “Celecoxib Decreases Acute Postoperative Opioid Requirements after Head and Neck Reconstruction with Free Tissue Transfer: A Matched-Cohort Study”

Best Prevention Early Detection Paper Award 

Winner:  Chwee Ming Lim, MD
Institution: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, National University Health System Singapore
Manuscript Title:  Real time near-infrared auto-fluorescence Raman spectroscopy system in the surveillance of patients with nasopharyngeal cancer

Robert Maxwell Byer Award

Winner:  Chang-Han Chen, PhD
Institution: Institute for Translational Research in Biomedicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Manuscript Title:  Angiotensin II type 1 receptor contributes to malignant progression in oral squamous cell carcinoma through modulation of FUI0540/S100A9 signaling

Best Resident Basic Science Award

Winner:  Moran Amit, MD
Institution: The Laboratory for Applied Cancer Research, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Manuscript Title:  Thyroid cancer response to radioiodine treatment is post-translationally regulated

Best Resident Clinical Award

Winner:  Michelle Chen, MD
Institution: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University
Manuscript Title:  Post-operative radiation therapy associated with improved survival in Nl oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer patients