American Head & Neck Society

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New AHNS COVID-19 Offering on AHNS Web Site

Dear AHNS Members,

The AHNS Education Division has helped create a valuable resource for our members to connect during the pandemic. The AHNS COVID-19 Forum can be accessed through your member account on the AHNS Web Site. Just log onto your account through www.ahns.info and go to the member dashboard to access the AHNS COVID-19 Forum. This was established as a quick way for our members to post questions, comments and suggestions in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. This forum is only accessible to AHNS members. Posting in any forum subscribes you to that topic and you will receive email notifications of future posts. You may also subscribe to any topic or entire forums by locating the subscribe link.  Clicking your name on any forum page will allow you to modify your personal settings for the forum system. Please note that the views and comments expressed on the forum are views and opinions of those posting and not official AHNS viewpoints.

Please also visit the AHNS COVID-19 Bulletin Board, which serves as a platform on our website where members can share vetted information relevant to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Please visit https://www.ahns.info/covid-19-info/ to view the bulletin board and also submit information. New information has been posted weekly.

And don’t forget to view one of the pieces that was added to the Bulletin Board, the AHNS COVID-19 Practice Patterns.  A direct link can be found here:

https://www.ahns.info/covid-19-info/covid_pp_spreadsheet/

This document is created by a set of head and neck surgeons who will post regular and ‘real-time’ updates about practice patterns, policy changes, and patient care considerations. These will be updated on a weekly basis at minimum, and more frequently if policies and patterns are changing more rapidly.

In addition, aggregate information previously collected from other institutions will be available to view.

We welcome your contributions. We are actively looking for contributors, as well as ideas for additional questions our institutions can help answer. New questions will be added and answered as soon as possible.

Please send any interest or correspondence regarding AHNS COVID-19 Practice Patterns to
[email protected]. 

I continue to be amazed at the great work our members are producing during this difficult time.
Thank you, again, for your service to the society and our specialty!

Cherie-Ann Nathan, MD
AHNS President

Cherie-Ann Nathan

Cherie-Ann Nathan

Dr. Cherie-Ann Nathan is a leading head and neck cancer surgeon. She is Prof. & Chair of the Dept. of Oto/HNS &the Director of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Cancer Research, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center Louisiana State University Health - Shreveport (LSU Health Shreveport). The National Cancer Institute has funded her translational research since 2000 and her focus is on targeted therapy for head and neck patients. Dr. Nathan is recognized nationally and internationally for her seminal work on molecular analysis of surgical margins. She has pioneered multi-institutional clinical trials using mTOR inhibitors in HNSCC patients. She has also received NIH funding for chemoprevention of cancer with curcumin and has a patent for a curcumin chewing gum. More recently she also received an NCI grant on cutaneous Squamous cell cancer.  She serves on the NCI head and neck steering committee and the American Cancer Society HPV steering committee. Dr. Nathan has published extensively, has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored multiple textbooks and encyclopedia chapters. She is married to Dr. Raghu Nathan, a pulmonary and critical eye care specialist with whom she has two boys.
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