Click Here for the 2008 Meeting: 7th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS! PLATINUM LEVEL DONORS GOLD LEVEL DONORS SILVER LEVEL DONORS AstraZeneca Gyrus ACMI - ENT Division IRX Therapeutics Medtronic ENT Synthes BRONZE LEVEL DONORS EUSA Pharma/Cytogen IBA Particle Therapy OmniGuide Stryker Varian Medical Systems ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Fanconi Anemia Research Fund The 7th International Conference on Head & Neck Cancer was supported by Grant Number R13DE019081 from the National Institute Of Dental & Craniofacial Research and the National Cancer Institute. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research and the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.   Significant Gifts A special thank you goes to Dr. Jatin P. Shah, Chief of the Head and Neck Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, for his incredibly generous gift of $100,000 to the AHNS Research and Education Foundation. A panel on Clinical Controversies in Head and Neck Surgery, to be held as part of the AHNS annual meeting, will be named in honor of Dr. Shah. Make sure to attend this at the meeting next year. Learn more about the Foundation here.   We have posted links to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology in our Clinical Resources Section.   OUR MISSION The purpose of the American Head and Neck Society is: To promote and advance the knowledge of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of neoplasms and other diseases of the head and neck To promote and advance research in diseases of the head and neck, and To promote and advance the highest professional and ethical standards

Welcome to the American Head and Neck Society!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please click here for information on the 3rd Annual Head and Neck Oncology Resident Education Symposium, held September 20, 2008 during the AAO-HNS Annual Meeting.

ANNUAL MEETING

• Thank you to all who attend the 7th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer. We helped make our meeting a huge success.
• Download the Final Program, Proffered Papers, or Poster Papers

Congratulations to the new AHNS officers and fellows-at-large.

President-Elect: John A. Ridge, MD, PhD
Vice President: David W. Eisele, MD
Fellows-at-Large: Jonathan Irish, MD, FACS; C. René Leemans, MD, PhD; Jeffrey N. Myers, MD, PhD

Three New Fellowship Programs: We have added three more excellent fellowship programs to the AHNS match. Congratulations to the University of Alabama-Birmingham, the University of Kansas and the Medical University of South Carolina. They will be part of the 2010 fellowship match.

The 2009 AHNS Fellowship match results will be announced on July 1, 2008. Please click here for the results.

Congratulations to the 2008 AHNS Travel Grants winner that are listed here.

The American Head and Neck Society and
the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society
are pleased to announce the Chris O'Brien Traveling Fellowship 2008. Click here for details.

RESEARCH AWARDS

Congratulations to the AHNS 2008 Award Winners

• Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant: Rolando Rosas, MD, MSc, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
• AHNS Pilot Grant: Daniel Schneider, MD, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
• AHNS Pilot Grant: Christopher Towe, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
• AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Award: Brandon Bentz, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Award: Mark Jameson, MD, PhD, The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Read all about the AHNS Award program here.
Read the Grant Reports, written by previous winners, including Dr. Wang's report on Hyaluronan Signaling in Head and Neck Cancer Progression.

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The annoucement of the match results will be posted early July 2008.
Please visit the Resident and Fellows Corner for more information regarding the fellowship program.

Congratulations to the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center who won the AHNS Prevention and Early Detection Committee's Community Service Grant.

The Prevention Committee has posted a position statement on Screening for Head and Neck Cancer located here.

PowerPoint presentations from recent annual meetings and invited lecturers are posted in the Clinical Resources section. 23 presentations are available. Selected presentations from the 2007 meeting are available.

Featured Lecture:
2007 Hayes Martin Lecture: Head and Neck Surgery: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century --
Jesus Medina, MD, FACS

To download Dr. Gerald Healy's Presidential Address during the October 7-11, 2007 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, printed in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons,
please click here

FUTURE AND RELATED MEETINGS

• New conferences have been added to our related meetings page.

EDUCATION RESOURCES

• PowerPoint presentations from recent annual meetings and invited lecturers are posted in the Clinical Resources section. 23 presentations are available. The presentations from the 2007 meeting are available.
• More information on Otobase is available in the Otobase section.

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

• The AHNS Executive Council and Membership Credentials Committee are pleased to welcome our new members in 2008. To view the list of our new members, please click here.
• The 2008 application review period is now closed. Applications are now being accepted for consideration in May 2009. The deadline for all required documents for 2009 is September 26, 2008. For more membership information, please click here.
• Members may order a membership certificate using this form (Active, Corresponding, and Associate members only).

FOUNDATION AND CORPORATE INFORMATION

• The AHNS Research and Education Foundation is accepting pledges and donations online. Read about the Foundation and send your pledge in here.

AHNS Council