AHNS 2013 Annual Meeting - American Head and Neck Society

Presidential CitationsNeal D. Futran, MD, DMDNeal D. Futran, MD, DMD joined the University of Washingtonfaculty in 1995. He is currently the Allison T. WanamakerProfessor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology –Head and Neck Surgery. He is also the Director of Head andNeck Surgery as well as an adjunct professor in thedepartments of Plastic Surgery and Neurology Surgery. Dr.Futran earned his dentistry degree at the University ofPennsylvania and completed training in oral and maxillofacialsurgery as well as an MD degree at the Health Science Centerat Brooklyn, New York. He then trained in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgeryat the University of Rochester followed by a Head and Neck Oncology andMicrovascular Surgery fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York with Dr.Mark Urken. Dr. Futran became an assistant professor in the Department ofOtolaryngology at the University of South Florida in 1993 specializing in head andneck oncologic and reconstructive surgery and subsequently relocated to Seattle.Dr. Futran is board certified in Otolaryngology and has outstanding expertise andan active practice in head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstructionand rehabilitation of complex, oncology and trauma cases. He also specializesin skull base surgery utilizing both endoscopic and open approaches. His majorresearch activites center on microvascular reconstruction of the head and neck andhe also participates in grants studying molecular profiles and gene analysis in oralcarcinogenesis. He enjoys teaching on the topics of head and neck reconstruction,craniofacial trauma, skull base surgery, and head and neck oncology worldwide.He is on the board of trustees of the AO Foundation, UW Physicians, and theVirginia Bloedel Hearing Research Institute. Dr. Futran is on the editorial boards ofseveral scientific journals and holds the position of associate editor of both Headand Neck, and Oral Oncology. He is listed in the Best Doctor’s in America.Paul A. Levine, MDBorn in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 1947, Paul A. Levine,MD received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology fromRensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1969, his M.D. from AlbanyMedical College in 1973, and completed his internship andotolaryngology-head and neck surgery surgical residency atYale in 1977. After a year fellowship at Stanford in head andneck, maxillofacial, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgerycompleted in 1978, Dr. Levine remained on the Stanford facultyas an assistant professor in the Division of Otolaryngology-Headand Neck Surgery as well as the associate chief for the Division at Santa Clara ValleyMedical Center. In 1984, he joined the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and NeckSurgery at the University of Virginia as an associate professor and vice chair, becamea tenured professor in 1987, and was named chairman of the department at UVA in1997, a position he stills holds.Dr. Levine has contributed over 140 publications to the specialty during hiscareer and has been very active in institutional and national committees, in andoutside the specialty throughout his career. He was an early proponent of platefixation for mandible fractures, and he has become recognized for his expertise intreating sinonasal malignancies, especially esthesioneuroblastoma and sinonasalundifferentiated carcinoma, as well as experience in performing craniofacialresections and sparing of the eye when treating these malignancies. A nationallyand internationally recognized academic head and neck cancer surgeon, Dr. Levinehas served as a member of all the major societies in the field and as a leader ofmany. He has served as the past president of the American Broncho-EsophagologicalAssociation, chairman of the Advanced Training Council of the American Head andNeck Society as well as the President of the American Head and Neck Society. He hasbeen a director of the American Board of Otolaryngology, completing his 12 yearterm in 2010 and also served as its treasurer for four years. He completed his term asSouthern Section Vice President of the Triological Society in 2007 and currently servesas the editor of JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (formerly known asArchives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery) as well as an editorial boardmember of JAMA. Dr. Levine most recently was the Guest of Honor at the TriologicalSociety Combined Otolaryngology Sections Meeting in April 2012 and has been namedthe Guest of Honor for the Triological Society Southern Sections Meeting in 2013.April 10 - 11, 2013 · www.ahns.info 23