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January 2025 – Vol. 44, No. 1
You Are Never Alone with the Academy
Set your New Year’s resolutions to engage in the Academy’s community calendar and use programs that support your everyday practice.
Leading Edge
New Beginnings: Refining and Enhancing Our True North
Updating the Academy’s Strategic Plan is a 2025 priority to ensure our efforts are relevant and beneficial to you, our specialty, and the care of our patients.
Voices of Otolaryngology: Collaborate to Advocate and Innovate
We all have terrific solutions to the myriad problems facing us. The Academy’s new podcast is designed to amplify the ideas and perspectives of our diverse specialty.
Clinical Communication in the Electronic Medical Record
Best practices for balancing patient expectations, safety, and physician burnout.
NEW |
Voices of Otolaryngology
Podcast: Our True North
Listen to the latest episode of
Voices of Otolaryngology
with Rahul K. Shah, MD, MBA, and AAO-HNS/F President Troy D. Woodard, MD.
The Power of Practice Consolidation
Lessons learned during the nearly decade-long evolution of The Centers for Advanced ENT Care’s journey into a unified and resilient physician-led organization.
Staff Spotlight: Harry Biddle
Get to know the Academy’s Senior Association Management System – Business Intelligence professional, our resident member data guru.
Migraine in Otolaryngology
Clinics are rich with patients whose chief complaints can be attributed to migraine. Understanding migraine pathophysiology offers the practitioner practical options for treatment.
Inspiration from Past WIO Grant Recipients
The deadline to apply for the 2025 Women in Otolaryngology (WIO) Endowment Grant is February 3. Learn about past projects and apply today.
Get Ready for the AAO-HNS/F 2025 OTO Forum
Register now for the second annual iteration of this unparalleled gathering on all topics private practice, to be held April 25–26, 2025 in Alexandria, Virginia.
Stories from the Road: AIC-CURE Children’s Hospital of Kenya
Discover how CURE International advances children’s healthcare globally through training and empowering local surgeons during and after cleft lip and palate surgeries.
The OTO Journals’ Must-Reads of 2024
We review the most highly cited and engaged-with articles of the past year from
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
and
OTO Open
.
For Your Patients: Tips for Maintaining ENT Health in Winter
Enthealth.org is the go-to ENT patient health resource for your patients—all the content is developed and peer-reviewed by AAO-HNS members like you!
Why Leaders in Otolaryngology Submit to the Call for Science
World-leading otolaryngology clinician–researchers explain why they choose the AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting education program to showcase their cutting-edge research.
Welcome Maria V. Suurna, MD, Coordinator for International Affairs
“The stronger we are globally, the more we can advocate for our patients and our field.”
Bringing Music Back to Life
Academy member Alexander Chern, MD, seeks to restore the full beauty of music to those with hearing loss.
Medical Recalls: What Do We Know and Are We Informed?
Causes of 2024 recalls include safety concerns, software issues, mislabeling, and quality issues.
Mastering Virtual Medical Offices and Virtual Staffing
Technology cannot fully replace staff in high-touch fields like medicine, but virtual medical staffing can be part of the solution.
Pearls from Your Peers: The Otolaryngology Hospitalist
Elizabeth S. Willingham, MD, interviews Natalie E. Kadin, MD, about her experience establishing a full-time otolaryngology hospitalist program at UCLA.
Advocacy State-Level Outlook for 2025
State legislatures look to tackle key healthcare issues in the coming year.
Otolaryngology in World War Two
This turbulent time in world history brought major changes to otolaryngology, revolutionizing many of the most important aspects of the specialty today.
NEW | Voices of Otolaryngology Podcast: Success Is Intentional
Listen to the latest episode of Voices of Otolaryngology with Rahul K. Shah, MD, MBA, and AAO-HNS/F Past President Gavin Setzen, MD.
Update Your Find an ENT Profile
All active, practicing AAO-HNS members are automatically included. Access a quick step-by-step guide on how to update your profile.
Call for Contributions: Share Your Voice with the Bulletin
We invite you to contribute by submitting articles, topic inquiries, and multimedia content, as an individual or through your AAO-HNS/F committees.