AAO-HNS/F Committee of Excellence Award

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