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