Click Here for the 2008 Meeting: 7th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS! PLATINUM LEVEL DONORS Bristol Meyers Squibb and ImClone Systems, Incorporated. Merck KGaA Sanofi-Aventis GOLD LEVEL DONORS Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. Pfizer SILVER LEVEL DONORS AstraZeneca Gyrus ACMI - ENT Division IRX Therapeutics Medtronic ENT Synthes BRONZE LEVEL DONORS IBA Particle Therapy Stryker Varian Medical Systems ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Fanconi Anemia Research Fund   Significant Gifts A special thank you goes to Dr. Jatin P. Shah, Chief of the Head and Neck Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, for his incredibly generous gift of $100,000 to the AHNS Research and Education Foundation. A panel on Clinical Controversies in Head and Neck Surgery, to be held as part of the AHNS annual meeting, will be named in honor of Dr. Shah. Make sure to attend this at the meeting next year. Learn more about the Foundation here.   We have posted links to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology in our Clinical Resources Section.   OUR MISSION The purpose of the American Head and Neck Society is: To promote and advance the knowledge of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of neoplasms and other diseases of the head and neck To promote and advance research in diseases of the head and neck, and To promote and advance the highest professional and ethical standards

Welcome to the American Head and Neck Society!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

ANNUAL MEETING

• Registration and Housing is Now Open for the 7th International Conference on Head & Neck Cancer, held on July 19-23 in San Francisco, California. Early Registration and Housing Deadline is
  June 13, 2008.
• Download the Advance Program for complete meeting details.

PLEASE NOTE NEW CALL IN NUMBERS FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS:
US Residents call 1-800-266-9432 and International Residents call +1-801-832-4532

The American Head and Neck Society and the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society
are pleased to announce the Chris O'Brien Traveling Fellowship 2008. Click here for details.

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The 2009 AHNS Fellowship Application is available by clicking here.

Please visit the Resident and Fellows Corner for more information regarding the fellowship program.

Congratulations to the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center who won the AHNS Prevention and Early Detection Committee's Community Service Grant.

PowerPoint presentations from recent annual meetings and invited lecturers are posted in the Clinical Resources section. 23 presentations are available. Selected presentations from the 2007 meeting are available.

Featured Lecture:
2007 Hayes Martin Lecture: Head and Neck Surgery: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century --
Jesus Medina, MD, FACS

To download Dr. Gerald Healy's Presidential Address during the October 7-11, 2007 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, printed in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons,
please click here

RESEARCH AWARDS

Read about the AHNS Awards program. Read the Grant Reports, written by previous winners, including Dr. Wang's report on Hyaluronan Signaling in Head and Neck Cancer Progression.

2007 Award Winners

• Ballantyne Award: Vivian Wu, MD, Oregon Health Science University
• AHNS Pilot Grant: Andres Lopez-Albaitero, MD, University of Pittsburgh
• AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Award: Andrew Sikora, MD, PhD, U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Award: Mihir Patel, MD, University of North Carolina
• AHNS/AAO Career Development Award: Maie St. John, MD, PhD, University of California- Los Angeles

FUTURE AND RELATED MEETINGS

• New conferences have been added to our related meetings page.

EDUCATION RESOURCES

• PowerPoint presentations from recent annual meetings and invited lecturers are posted in the Clinical Resources section. 23 presentations are available. The presentations from the 2007 meeting are available.
• More information on Otobase is available in the Otobase section.

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

• The AHNS Credentials Committee reviewed and approved memberships for the 2008 applicants. Active members of the Society may elect to comment on a particular applicant and may do so in writing from February 11 - May 9, 2008.
• The 2008 application review period is now closed. Applications are now being accepted for consideration in May 2009. The deadline for all required documents for 2009 is September 26, 2008. For more membership information, please click here.
• Members may order a membership certificate using this form (Active, Corresponding, and Associate members only).

COMMITTEE NEWS

The History Committee is devoted to maintaining the heritage of the Head and Neck Society. One project of the committee is to obtain oral histories from distinguished senior members of our Society and present the results on the web site. Interviews are posted!

FOUNDATION AND CORPORATE INFORMATION

• The AHNS Research and Education Foundation is accepting pledges and donations online. Read about the Foundation and send your pledge in here.

AHNS Council