AHNS 2009 Annual Meeting
during COSM
MAY 30-31, 2009
JW Marriott Desert Ridge
Phoenix, Arizona

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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.

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!

Resident & FellowsCorner	Patient Education	Meetings & Presentations
Research	Head & Neck Surgery and Oncology Web Book	Member Central

ANNOUNCEMENTS

For information on a NEW AHNS Initiative, the AHNS Humanitarian Project, an endeavor of AHNS to support members interested in humanitarian outreach activities, please click here »
American Head and Neck Society Community Service Grant available now »

ANNUAL MEETING

Save the Date for the AHNS 2009 Annual Meeting during COSM, held May 30-31, 2009 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona.
AHNS 2009 Call for Papers Submission Site is Now Closed! Submitters will be notified of acceptance by late February 2009 »

Fellowship Program: The 2010 Fellowship Application is now available here.

New Early Fellowship Application Timeline for the 2010 Match:

Fellowships beginning: July 1, 2010
New Earlier Application Period: November 3, 2008- June 1, 2009
Interview Period: January 2009-June 2009
Candidates & Program Directors Submit Match List by: June 15, 2009
Notification of Result: July 1, 2009

For information, please visit the Resident/Fellow Corner.

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.

Congratulations to Carsten Palmer, the winner of The American Head and Neck Society and the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society Chris O'Brien Traveling Fellowship 2008.

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.

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.

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 Credentials Committee and the Executive Council welcome our new members of 2009. Congratulations! To see the list of new members, please click here»
Applications are now being accepted for consideration in 2010. The deadline for all required documents for 2010 is October 31, 2009. For more membership application 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

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

AHNS 2009 Annual Meeting during COSM MAY 30-31, 2009 JW Marriott Desert Ridge Phoenix, Arizona

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