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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.
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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
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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
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
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
AHNS Council
President |
Wayne M. Koch , M.D. |
President-Elect |
John A. Ridge, M.D., Ph.D |
Vice President |
David W. Eisele, M.D. |
Secretary |
Dennis H. Kraus, M.D. |
Treasurer |
Mark K. Wax, M.D. |
Past-Presidents |
Gregory T. Wolf, M.D. |
Randal S. Weber, M.D. |
John J. Coleman, III, M.D. |
Fellows-At-Large |
Marion E. Couch, M.D., Ph.D. 2007-2010 |
Ramon Esclamado, M.D. 2007-2010 |
Jonathan Irish, MD. 2008-2011 |
Peter C. Neligan, M.D. 2007-2010 |
C. René Leemans, M.D. 2008-2011 |
Jeffrey N. Myers, M.D., Ph.D. 2008-2011 |
Bert W. O'Malley, Jr., M.D. 2006-2009 |
Guy J. Petruzzelli, M.D. 2006-2009 |
Karen T. Pitman, M.D. 2006-2009 |
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