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Published on June 14, 2019 by AHNS Webmaster

Congratulations to AHNS Award Winners

Congratulations to the AHNS Award winners who were honored last month during our Annual Meeting

AHNS Myers’ Family Diversity Summer Travel Fellowship Award
2019 Awardee Ms. Ezinne Agwaramgbo, MS2
Institution: 
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

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

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