American Head & Neck Society

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The mission of the AHNS is to advance Education, Research, and Quality of Care for the head and neck oncology patient.

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The links below provide information about AHNS grants being offered to researchers, reports from those already funded, resources sponsored by AHNS or its members, new discoveries in clinical and basic science research pertinent to head and neck cancer along with information about grants from NIH, ACS and other sources.

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Myers’ Summer Travel Fellowship in Otolaryngology for under-represented minority medical students

This program is sponsored by the American Head and Neck Society Research and Education Foundation, thanks to the very generous contributions of Dr. Eugene Myers and Dr. Jeffrey Myers, as well as other AHNS donors.  It is intended to expose an under-represented minority medical student to the field of Head and Neck surgery specifically and Otolaryngology in general.
A grant of $5,000 will be awarded to a medical student to cover travel, lodging and food expenses for the summer experience.  This summer program offers the interested candidate the opportunity to work in a Department of Academic Excellence in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology that has an approved Fellowship Training Program from the Advanced Training Council of the AHNS.  Participants will be assigned to a clinical faculty mentor and will rotate on his or her clinical service and have the chance to participate in the care of Head and Neck Cancer patients in the outpatient setting, inpatient environment, as well as the operating room.  Summer fellows will also have the opportunity to perform basic, translational, clinical, or population based research under the guidance of a chosen/assigned research mentor.
We are requesting applicants to submit: 
  • A personal statement, not more than 500 words (one page, single-spaced) detailing why you want this fellowship experience. Please include in the personal statement your underrepresented minority status
  • A copy of your CV to be included with the personal statement
  • A letter of recommendation
  • Students must be in good standing at an accredited US medical school
The 2019 Myers’ Summer Travel Fellowship application is now closed and the 2020 application will be available at the end of this year.
 
 
Recipients of this travel fellowship award will be expected to engage in a research project with a mentor of their choosing or one of our volunteer mentors from the AHNS. This could be a new project, or an ancillary project nested within an ongoing investigation.
At the end of the fellowship, the awardees are expected to provide a summary of their experience in its totality, a brief summary of what they learned and the most impactful experiences throughout the summer. This should include feedback on what worked well and what did not.
In addition, the awardees will be required to submit an abstract-like document summarizing their research project including objectives, methods, results and conclusions. Submission to an otolaryngology-related meeting is encouraged but not required and this would be at the discretion of the mentor.

 

Announcing at COSM 2019 AHNS Manuscript Winners!

 

Congratulations to the 2015 AHNS Manuscript Winners!

  • Laura J. White, MD Best – Resident Clinical Paper Award
    Emory University Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
    “Applying ACS-NSQIP Methodology to Assess Patients Undergoing Fibula Free Flap Reconstruction: Examining Factors that Impact Hospital Length of Stay”
  • Brian Nussenbaum, MD  – Robert Maxwell Byer Award
    Washington University School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
    “Treatment Outcomes for T4 Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma”
  • Brittny N. Tillman, MD – Best Resident Basic Science Paper Award
    University of Michigan Health System Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
    “Targeted Sequencing of an Epidemiologically Low Risk patient define Fibroblast Growth Factor Family Aberrations as a driver of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma”

Congratulations to the 2014 AHNS Award Winners!

  • AHNS/AAO-HNSF Translational Innovator Award
    Seungwon Kim, MD
    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    “
    Mechanism of Perineural Invasion in Head and Neck Cancer”
  • AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigators Combined Grant
    Joseph Curry, MD

    Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
    “
    Multicompartment glycolytic metabolism in head and neck cancer”
  • AHNS Pilot Grant
    Monika Freiser, BS

    Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami, FL
    “
    HNSCC Disparities: Identifying Critical Barriers and Intervention Targets”
  • AHNS Ballantyne Resident Research Grant
    Jennifer Wang, MD

    University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario
    “
    Chromatin Remodeling and Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma”

AHNS Research & Best Paper Awards

  • Best Resident Clinical Paper Award
    Moran Amit, MD MSc

    Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Rambam Medical Center
    “Clinical Nodal Stage Is A Significant Predictor Of Outcome In Patients With Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma And Pathologically Negative Neck Metastases: Results Of The International Consortium For Outcome Research”
  • Best Resident Science Paper Award
    Liam Masterson, MD

    Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust
    “Cell Mediated Immune Response in HPV Associated Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (UKCRN11945 Trial)”
  • Robert Maxwell Byers Award
    Ardalan Ebrahimi, MPH
    Liverpool, Macquarie University, St George Private and Sydney Southwest Private Hospitals

    “An International Multicenter Study of Primary Tumor Staging for Oral Cancer: A Proposed Modification Incorporating Depth of Invasion”

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