Help Strengthen Our Specialty’s Voice: An Urgent Call to Action
January 24, 2023James C. Denneny III, MDAAO-HNS/F EVP/CEOHealthcare advocacy has been around for decades as a highly valued and essential component service of medical associations. Since the advent of Medicare in 1965 when healthcare costs represented 5.5% of the United States GDP, there…
Exposed: The Underbelly of Our Current Healthcare System
January 24, 2023James C. Denneny III, MDAAO-HNS/F EVP/CEOIs it just me or is the current disruption to the practice of medicine different than we’ve experienced over the past 25 years? A recent presentation by Bruce P. Mehlman, JD, at the Alliance of Specialty…
Achieving Equitable Care in Challenging Times
January 24, 2023James C. Denneny III, MDAAO-HNS/F EVP/CEOThe summer of 2022 has truly been one to remember. Just when the United States and the rest of the world were anticipating and even celebrating the reduction in severity of COVID-19 and a return to…
The Annual Meeting: Offering a Different Type of Time-Out
January 24, 2023James C. Denneny III, MDAAO-HNS/F EVP/CEOPlanning for and executing this year’s Annual Meeting & OTO Experience in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been influenced by our 2020 virtual meeting, last year’s 125th anniversary in-person meeting in Los Angeles, and the recently held…
2021-2022 AAO-HNS/F Committee Highlights
December 7, 20222021-2022 AAO-HNS/F Committee HighlightsThe AAO-HNS/F Committees continued to advance the otolaryngology specialty throughout the 2021-2022 term. The committees are the lifeblood of the AAO-HNS/F and a great way for members to contribute meaningfully to the organization and…
2022 Honor Award Recipients
December 5, 2022Special congratulations to the 2022 Honor Award recipients. Honor Awards are part of the Academy’s system for recognizing meritorious service and is the first award a member can obtain for participation in certain activities. A member can earn only one Honor Award in a…
Pearls from your Peers: Implicit Bias
December 5, 2022Thank you for joining me, Dr. Faucett. At the AAO-HNSF 2022 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, we, along with Dana M. Thompson, MD, MS, and Michael L. Hinni, MD, presented an interactive simulation-enhanced panel, “Combating Implicit Bias in Healthcare,” cosponsored by the Diversity, Equity…
ENT PAC: Building Invaluable Support for Key Academy Initiatives Impacting Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
December 5, 2022Paul Imber, DO, recently attended a political event for U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (R-Delaware) in her district on behalf of ENT PAC, the nonpartisan, issue-driven political action committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS). Dr…
AAO-HNSF 2023 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience Call for Science: The Trip to Nashville Starts Now
December 5, 2022Daniel C. Chelius, Jr., MD Annual Meeting Program CoordinatorDaniel C. Chelius, Jr., MDAnnual Meeting Program CoordinatorI can’t wait to get to Nashville next October. I’ve been hoping to visit Vanderbilt for over 20 years. To borrow from Lewis Carroll, it has become my…
OTO Source Education Opportunities: Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
December 2, 2022The Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery unit in OTO Source offers an array of topics from Botox to psychological evaluation of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery candidates. Investigate the free online content at www.otosource.org.…
2022 Distinguished Service Award Recipients
December 1, 2022Special congratulations to the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) recipients. The DSA represents an individual’s service and volunteerism to the Academy, offering personal reward as well as benefit to the AAO-HNS/F and the specialty as a whole. The DSA is a recognition…
AAO-HNSF Humanitarian Travel Grant Trip Report: Migori, Kenya
November 30, 2022Atif J. Cheema, MDThank you to the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) for the Humanitarian Travel Grant that helped fund my recent humanitarian outreach trip to Kenya.The trip was arranged through Kenya Relief, an organization that operates an…
2022 MIPS Submission & Audit Webinar
November 29, 2022The Reg-ent team will be hosting a 2022 MIPS Submission & Audit Webinar on January 19, 2023, for Reg-ent participants. This webinar will cover the 2022 MIPS submission requirements, demonstrate the 2022 MIPS submission module functionalities, and highlight important information about the data validation…
PPSG WEBINAR: Save the Date Finding Your Happy Place: Current Practice Paradigms in Otolaryngology 2023
November 29, 2022WEBINAR: Save the DateFinding Your Happy Place: Current Practice Paradigms in Otolaryngology 2023January 11, 2023, 8:00 pm (ET)This session, sponsored by the Private Practice Study Group (PPSG), will provide insight into the variety of practice opportunities and employment models currently available to otolaryngologists…
FROM THE EDUCATION COMMITTEES: Gender-Affirming Care Provided by the Otolaryngologist
November 29, 2022Laura Garcia-Rodriguez, MD, member of the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Education Committee, and AJ Flaherty, MDYour patient, named John by his parents, tells you he really prefers being called Jack. He has simply never felt that “John” fit him as well as “Jack…
The Mighty Force of a Niche Specialty: Otolaryngology Impacts in 2022
November 29, 2022James C. Denneny III, MDAAO-HNS/F EVP/CEOAs I look back over 2022 and put together my final printed Bulletin column, it has certainly been a remarkable year in terms of world events, transition to a more chronic COVID-19, adjustments to supply and…
Gratitude
November 29, 2022Kathleen L. Yaremchuk, MD, MSAAAO-HNS/F PresidentAs we appear to be emerging from the pandemic, wrapping up the end of 2022 is a time we may be cautiously celebrating life returning to “normal.” The holidays can be a time for us to gather safely…
Pearls from Your Peers | Molecular Diagnostics and Targeted Therapeutics for Salivary Gland Neoplasms
November 16, 2022What molecular testing is necessary right now when deciding management for certain salivary gland malignancies?For many salivary gland malignancies, histology alone may not be sufficient for accurate diagnosis and categorization. The use of additional protein, hormonal, and fusion markers is commonplace and necessary to…
