About the Jerome C. Goldstein, MD Public Service Award
The Jerome C. Goldstein, MD Public Service Award recognizes members for commitment and achievement in service, either to the public or to other organizations within the United States, when such service promises to improve patient welfare.
Funded anonymously by an Academy member, any member of the Academy is eligible to receive, and nominate other members, for this award. The awardee is honored during the Annual Meeting & OTO EXPOSM with a commemorative certificate and $1,000 honorarium.
2024 Jerome C. Goldstein, MD Public Service Award Recipient
Matthew L. Bush, MD, PhD, MBA, is recognized with the 2024 AAO-HNSF Jerome C. Goldstein, MD Public Service Award. He is a professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He holds the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Endowed Chair in Rural Health Policy.
Dr. Bush’s research and clinical efforts are focused on providing timely access to hearing healthcare for children and adults. He served as the principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded community-based trials to advance hearing healthcare and utilization among underserved populations. A native West Virginian, he is dedicated to caring for the neurotological needs of patients throughout Appalachia.
A significant portion of Dr. Bush’s research specifically addresses healthcare disparities in a way that directly improves screenings for newborn hearing and chronic otitis media. He has been awarded multiple NIH Research Project Grants (R01) and has published several peer-reviewed papers.
Dr. Bush is a strong advocate for trainees and devotes his time to educating medical students about research and otolaryngology-head and neck surgery conditions and treatments. He earned his medical degree from Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia, and completed his otolaryngology residency at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship and his otology, neurotology and cranial base surgery fellowship at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He also earned an MBA and a PhD in clinical and translational science from the University of Kentucky.
Previous Recipients:
- 2023: Willard C. Harrill, MD
- 2022: Ehab Y. Hanna, MD
- 2021: Sally Shott, MD
- 2020: Joseph E. Kerschner, MD
- 2019: No Award Presented
- 2018: Jerome C. Goldstein
- 2017: Debara L. Tucci, MD, MS, MBA
- 2016: C. Ron Cannon, MD
- 2015: Charles E. Moore, MD
- 2014: Keith F. DeSonier, MD
- 2013: Steven F. Isenberg, MD
- 2012: David L. Witsell, MD, MHS
- 2011: Kathleen L. Yaremchuk, MD
- 2010: Nancy L. Snyderman, MD
- 2009: George Paul Doxey, MD
- 2008: Anna M. Pou, MD
- 2007: William B. Lewis, MD
- 2006: Louisiana State University-Department of Otolaryngology and Tulane University Department of Otolaryngology
- 2005: Stephen Epstein, MD
- 2004: Karl L. Horn, MD
- 2003: Hosakere K. Chandra Sekhar, MD
- 2002: William M. Satterwhite, Jr., MD
- 2001: Terry A. Day, MD
- 2000: John Niparko, MD
- 1999: Byron Bailey, MD
- 1998: Howard W. Smith, MD
- 1997: Roland Eavey, MD and Craig Senders, MD
- 1996: Donald P. Vrabeck, MD
- 1995: G. Richard Holt, MD
- 1994: Jerome C. Goldstein, MD
