About the Committee Excellence Award
The Committees of Excellence Award recognizes committees that contribute in ways that lead to the Academy’s overall success as the global leader in optimizing quality ear, nose, and throat care.
2025 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
- Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Education Committee
- General Otolaryngology and Sleep Education Committee
- Head and Neck Surgery Education Committee
- Laryngology/ Esophagoscopy Education Committee
- Otology/ Neurotology Education Committee
- Pediatric Otolaryngology Education Committee
- Practice Management Education Committee
- Rhinology/ Allergy Education Committee
- Simulation Education Committee
- WIO Leadership Development & Mentoring Committee
2024 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
Committee(s) of Excellence:
- Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Committee
- Annual Meeting Program Committee
- Hearing Committee
- Humanitarian Efforts Committee
- Laryngology & Bronchoesophagology Education Committee
- Otolaryngology Cleft and Craniofacial Committee
- Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Medicine (OREBM) Committee
- Otology & Neurotology Education Committee
- Patient Safety Quality Improvement (PSQI) Committee
- Rhinology & Allergy Education Committee
2023 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
Committee(s) of Excellence:
- Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Committee; Chair: Michael J. Brenner, MD
- Otology and Neurotology Education Committee; Chair: Maura Cosetti, MD
- Laryngology and Bronchoesophagology Education Committee; Chair: Paul C. Bryson, MD, MBA
2022 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
- Annual Meeting Program Committee
- Credentials and Membership Committee
- General Otolaryngology and Sleep Education Committee
- Head and Neck Surgery Education Committee
- Medical Devices and Drugs Committee
- Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Committee
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Committee
- Practice Management Education Committee
- Salivary Gland Committee
- Simulation Education Committee
- Women in Otolaryngology Endowment Committee
2021 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
- Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Education Committee
- Hearing Committee
- Implantable Hearing Devices Committee
- Diversity & Inclusion Committee
- Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Committee
- Women in Otolaryngology Leadership Development and Mentorship Committee
- Physician Payment Policy Work Group (3P)
To acknowledge extraordinary performance during COVID-19, these committees are recognized for informing the global otolaryngology community of critical COVID-19-related developments, for providing practice management guidance, and for creating opportunities for continued learning.
Pandemic-Related Committee of Excellence Awardees
- Future of Otolaryngology Task Force
- Infectious Disease Committee
- Annual Meeting Program Committee
- Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Committee
2020 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
- Laryngology Bronchoesophagology Education Committee; Chair: Thomas L. Carroll, MD
- Rhinology & Paranasal Sinus Committee; Chair: Sanford M. Archer, MD
- Head and Neck Surgery Education Committee; Chair: David M. Cognetti, MD
- Humanitarian Efforts Committee; Chair: Mark E. Zafereo, Jr., MD
- WIO Program & Awards Committee; Chair: Evelyne Kalyoussef, MD
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Committee; Co-chairs: Emily F. Boss, MD, and C. W. David Chang, MD
2019 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
- Complimentary/Integrative Medicine Committee
- General Otolaryngology Education Committee
- Hearing Committee
- Otology-Neurotology Education Committee
- Outcomes Research & Evidence Based Medicine Committee
- Pan American Committee
- Pediatric Otolaryngology Education Committee
2018 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
- Airway and Swallowing Committee
- Practice Management Education Committee
- Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Committee
- Reg-ent
2017 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
- BOG Governance and Society Engagement Committee
- Otology & Neurotology Education Committee
- Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Committee
- Simulation Education Committee
2016 Committee Excellence Award Recipients
- Ethics Committee
- Humanitarian Efforts Committee
- Rhinology & Allergy Education Committee
2015 Model Committees
- Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Committee
- Ethics Committee
- Endocrine Committee
- Patient Safety & Quality Improvement (PSQI) Committee
