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In this opinion piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, past department chair and founder of Stanford Research Into the Impact of To***co Advertising (SRITA), Dr. Robert Jackler, highlights the significant concerns of the to***co industry funding Continuing Medical Education (CME).⁠
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Read below:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2820846
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Dr. Alan Cheng's team, the Ear-resistible, had a strong showing at the 2024 summer scamper event at the Stanford Children’s Health. We are so grateful for our volunteers, runners, joggers, and many others who came to support.

We are excited to share the latest work on the human utricle! Congratulations to the team of scientists, surgeons, and faculty led by Senior Research Scientist Tian Wang and Stanford alumni Taha Jan.

Fellow Jason Qian was recognized at this year's COSM for winning the ASPO Fellow Award for his research project: Incidence of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in the post-HPV vaccination era: 2007-2022.

Congrats, Jason!

Dr. Nayak has been awarded a $6 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine for his collaborative research in confirming the safety and feasibility of a CRISPR-based human nasal stem cell therapy for the treatment of cystic fibrosis sinusitis.

Their research aims to be the first in-human stem cell clinical application for an airway disease. Dr. Nayak is part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team with Dr. Porteus (Pediatrics), Dr. Desai (Adult Pulmonary Medicine), and Dr. Milla (Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine).

PGY3 Arifeen Rahman published an article for ABC News about HPV Vaccination and Head & Neck Cancer, who wrote it while working for the ABC News Medical Unit. The article also features an interview with assistant professor Dr. Michelle Chen.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/20-years-after-hpv-vaccine-approved-mounting-evidence/story?id=110655467

Dr. Michelle Chen is a recipient of the NRG Oncology Early Career & New Investigators (ECNI) Mentored Fellowship Program for 2023-2024 under the Head & Neck Cancer Committee.

Congratulations, Dr. Chen!

Chief Resident, George Liu, won the Resident Research Travel Award from the American Otological Society for his study titled: Artificial Intelligence Tracking of Otologic Instruments in Mastoidectomy Videos. His research mentor is Dr. Nikolas Blevins.

Congrats, George!

Today @ : Department chair, Dr. Konstantina Stankovic, delivered an excellent presentation of her work at the Triological Society.

We're excited to share that she has been inducted as a Fellow of the Triological Society and received an Honorable Mention Award for her publication!

Honorable Mention for Basic Science Award:

Immune Profiling of Secreted Factors from Human Vestibular Schwannoma Cells and Tumor Associated Macrophages
by Konstantina M. Stankovic, MD PHD FACS

Congratulations, Dr. Stankovic!

Congratulations to Dr. Balakrishnan and key member Zoe Fullerton for being awarded one of the John Lillie and Lane Donnelly seed grants for the pilot program EMBRACES (Empowering Bidirectional Regional Academic-Community Engagement in Surgery).

The seed grant promotes improvements in quality, safety, efficiency, cost, patient experience, and health equity at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health as part of the care provided to children, expectant mothers, and their families.

Congratulations to Erika Shimahara, Program Coordinator for Otolaryngology Residency, for being awarded the 2024 Program Coordinator GME Award! The Program Coordinator award highlights a program coordinator who was critical in operational and educational success of their medical training program.

Last Friday, we held another successful Research Trainee Event! The event provided trainees with an opportunity for professional development through presentations of research and interactions with fellow researchers, faculty, and outside speakers. We were also joined by Dr. Ryan Branksi from the Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery from New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Dr. Anthony Peng from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus for guest discussions. A big thank you to Dr. Elizabeth Direnzo for hosting and the team of faculty members and administrative staff who helped make the event so successful and memorable!⁠

Registration is open for the 2024 Dysphagia Awareness Symposium which is scheduled for June 26th from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM! June is National Dysphagia Awareness Month.

This course is an intermediate course designed to provide foundational information in evaluation and treatment of dysphagia. Intended audiences SLPs, MDs, Nurses.

Swallowing difficulties can occur to people of all ages and impacts one in twenty-five Americans annually. Dysphagia has the potential to dramatically impact the health and well-being of patients and their caregivers. Join the Stanford Department of Otolaryngology in an evening of lectures and discussions about swallowing and swallowing disorders. Our speakers will address aspects of oropharyngeal and esophageal dysphagia across the lifespan.

For more information and to register for either in-person or virtual attendance, please use this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stanford-healthcares-swallowing-disorders-awareness-symposium-in-person-tickets-883758354027?aff=oddtdtcreator&lang=en-us&locale=en_US&status=30&view=listing. Please note that ASHA CEUs are being offered for in-person participants only and registration is limited to 60 individuals.

In this article, PGY 1 Resident, Monica Bodd, MD, MTS, and team explore the promise of accompaniment - an ethical framework drawn from liberation theology and brought to bear on medicine through the work of Paul Farmer - in the care of surgical patients. Their argument is a cautiously optimistic one where we posit that much of contemporary surgical ethics and DEI discourse, although powerful and important in their scopes, largely fail to account for the vast social gulf that exists between surgeon/clinician and patient. They believe accompaniment, with its emphasis on physical and geographic proximity, as well as mutuality and friendship, invites key interrogation of the “private sphere” often neglected in bioethics and expands the busy surgeon’s ethical imagination in and out of the OR to consider how she might “break bread” with the community she serves.

To read the full article, go to https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.1575

This Earth Day, we're proud to share some of the great work of our department in the area of sustainability! Lauren Lalakea, MD was appointed as an inaugural member of the newly formed AAOHNS Environmental Sustainability Task Force in January 2024. Within our department, she leads the climate sustainability group.

As a result of their advocacy and work, ligasure reprocessing efforts are underway at LPCH, more sustainable catering options have been agreed upon to reduce our food-related carbon footprint and support the wellness of our department members, and an increased amount of environmentally-minded research is being done throughout the department!

We're excited to continue our green impact within the department, across Stanford Medicine, and the OHNS community!

Health on a planet in crisis The new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores the negative impact climate change is having on human health and ways to counter them.

The entire team of Stanford Rhinology (Zara Patel, MD, Dr. Michael Chang, Jayakar V Nayak MD, PhD, and Dr. Peter Hwang) attended this year’s combined International Rhinologic Society and International Symposium on Infection and Allergy of the Nose in 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan as invited faculty!

Covering wide-ranging rhinologic topics such as and , the team represented the best of Stanford OHNS and the American Rhinologic Society education to the world of Rhinology!

While lecturing on cutting-edge surgical techniques and treatment options for our patients, they also were excited to learn of all the new strategies to treat our patients being developed around the world. Each of our rhinologists believe deeply in being both and for the exponential benefit of our patients.

To close out Women's History Month, here's a great interview from the “Healthier, Happy Lives Blog” from Stanford Medicine Children's Health in which Mai Thy Truong,
MD shares about giving children hearing and confidence through her work. To read more, go to https://healthier.stanfordchildrens.org/en/giving-children-hearing-and-confidence/

Recently we learned that the most cited article from JAMA Oto-HNS in 2023 was a paper from our department! Dr. Noel Ayoub was the lead author, with Dr. Yu-Jin Lee, the newly matched Dr. David Grimm, and Dr. Karthik Balakrishnan as co-authors! Congratulations to this great team! Read the full article at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/article-abstract/2804300

Congratulations to Michael Chang, MD for receiving a Stanford Center for Asian Health Research & Education - CARE seed grant. The seed grant will be for Dr. Chang’s research on “Improving Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis Through Deep Learning of Endoscopic Images.” This collaborative research grant further strengthens our team’s foundational work towards being an AI research center of distinction in rhinology. To learn more about Stanford CARE, go to https://asianhealth.stanford.edu/

The 7th Annual Head and Neck Cancer Patient and Caregiver Education Symposium, led by Professor Heather Starmer, was held on March 2nd! Over 100 in-person and virtual attendees interacted with members of the Stanford Medicine community to learn more about issues common in head and neck cancer survivorship.

We're also happy to report that we are participating in the 2nd annual Move-A-Thon with the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance! There's still time to join us on April 1st as we get moving for Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month. Please scan the QR code on the last slide to sign up for our team or go to this link https://headandneckcanceralliance.salsalabs.org/24MoveAThon/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f4c2ff0a-6368-4736-87b1-962ec9303a07!

Let's get moving and raise more than $5K this year!
All funds raised through the Move-A-Thon go directly to our programs which help patients, survivors, and caregivers.

Giving Children Hearing and Confidence - Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Blog This is the second part of a monthlong series in honor of Women’s History Month at Stanford Medicine Children's Health.

We are proud to share that the paper “Environmental Risk Factors for Pediatric Epistaxis vary by Climate Zone” was selected for the cover of The Laryngoscope this month. The team of authors includes Eric X. Wei, MD, Allen Green, BS, Michael T. Chang, MD, Peter H. Hwang, MD, Douglas R. Sidell, MD, and Z. Jason Qian, MD. To read the full article, go to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37589269/ #:~:text=Moderate%20temperature%20zones%20were%20associated,in%20climates%20with%20extreme%20heat

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the “Healthier, Happy Lives Blog” Stanford Medicine Children's Health asked Kara Meister, MD to share about covering the full spectrum of medicine in her work. To read more, go to https://healthier.stanfordchildrens.org/en/celebrating-women-in-medicine-month/

Please help us congratulate and welcome the newest members of our Stanford OHNS family! We can't wait to welcome you on campus! Congratulations to all in the Match today! 🩺🎉🥼 American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Student National Medical Association Inc

We are proud to announce that Drs Lisa Orloff, Zara Patel, and Mai Thy Truong have been recognized for the 6th consecutive year by Castle Connolly as Exceptional Women in Medicine! They continue to be pioneers of medical excellence and change in our community. Congratulations!

Congratulations to John Sunwoo, MD for receiving a Stanford Medicine Catalyst Award. The project will use information from discoveries made in Dr. Sunwoo’s laboratory to generate a clinical-grade NK cell therapy product endowed with unique properties that are advantageous for the treatment of solid malignancies, like head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. The Stanford Medicine Catalyst Program is a joint strategic effort between Stanford Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health to support inventors across the Stanford community in developing and accelerating the most promising innovations for transformative health. To learn more about the program, go to https://smcatalyst.stanford.edu/

March is Women's History Month! Today, we celebrate Women in Otolaryngology Day in conjunction with International Women's Day!
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There are so many inspiring women in our department and community who continue to exemplify outstanding leadership, expertise, and dedication in their respective fields! We are extremely grateful for their hard work! 💜💚🤍⁠ American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery

Here is a neat research publication for our community that was worked on by some of our friends at Stanford in the microtia and atresia clinic!

What part of the ear do you look at? What gets the most attention?
As a reconstructive ear surgeons, Drs. Mai Thy Truong and Steven Losorelli, along with Dr. Kay Chang, Dr. Sam Most and Julia Chang, they wanted to know what the human eye looks at the most when looking at an ear. They studied the gaze patterns of people when looking at a normal ear, a Microtia ear, and a reconstructed ear. The results were surprising!

To learn more about the results of this study, please visit the link below:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lary.31331

Drs. Truong and Chang run the microtia and atresia clinic at Stanford.
https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/service/microtia

Thank you,
Ear Community
Stanford OHNS
Stanford Medicine Children's Health

Mai Thy Truong