2013 Presidential Citation Recipients

Each year at our Annual Meeting, AAO-HNS/F presidents honor those who have made significant contributions to otolaryngology and have been especially influential in his/her career. This year, President James L. Netterville, MD, has selected six talented individuals to receive the 2013 Presidential Citations and be recognized during the meeting’s opening ceremony in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Dr. Eavey is the director of the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences in Nashville, and the Guy M. Maness Professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology. He obtained a master’s degree in healthcare management from the Harvard School of Public Health. He trained as a pediatric otolaryngologist and evolved into a pediatric otologist with contributions such as becoming (probably) the first otolaryngology microtia surgeon, inventing the butterfly inlay graft myringoplasty, and serving as the clinical trial site PI of the first widely used pneumococcal vaccine. His collaborative research foci on the pediatric ear, which has received NIH funding, include tissue engineering of an auricle for microtia, the molecular genetics of hearing loss, and hearing loss epidemiology. Dr. Eavey has contributed more than 200 publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Nature Genetics. His educational initiatives include creating a novel didactic Vanderbilt resident training program that promotes interactive learning and removes traditional lectures; additionally, he has created a unique four-year resident leadership training program. His service and outreach activity includes serving as the American ear representative of the World Health Organization, making about 30 trips to Latin America to teach primary care providers about otitis media for which Dr. Eavey was honored with the 1997 AAO-HNS Jerome C. Goldstein Public Service Award. Dr. Glasscock earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee in 1958. He completed residencies at Methodist Hospital-Dallas, Kennedy Veterans Administration Hospital-Memphis, John Gaston Hospital-University of Tennessee, and The Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. His fellowships were in otology and neurotology at the Otologic Medical Group (House Ear Clinic) and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Nashville, TN, was the site of his otology/neurotology practice, where he was associated with Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, Dr. Glasscock served as a clinical professor of surgery (otology and neurotology) from 1981-1997, associate clinical professor of neurosurgery from 1985-1997, and adjunct professor division of hearing & speech from 1986-1997. He has recently returned to The Otology Group at Vanderbilt to work with residents and otologic fellows in the mining of data from the practice and preparation of scientific articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Michael D. Maves, MD, is a leader. Recently, he has served as senior vice president of Development and Global Health Impact Programs for U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP). Before that, he was executive vice president of Project HOPE, with programs in more than 35 countries. Dr. Maves served from 2001-2011 as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Association. During his tenure, he provided a stable platform of consistent executive presence through personal leadership and stability that allowed the AMA to concentrate on moving critical national health policy forward. Dr. Maves served as professor and chairman, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Saint Louis University College of Medicine from 1988-1994. He also held faculty appointments at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Georgetown University School of Medicine. He currently is adjunct professor of otolaryngology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. From 1994-1999 he was the executive vice president of the AAO-HNS. Under his leadership, AAO-HNS increased visibility in Washington, DC, with its first political action committee. Raised in Toledo, OH, Dr. Maves received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toledo and his medical degree and residency in otolaryngology from Ohio State University. He received an MBA from the University of Iowa College of Business Administration. Dr. Maves has a passion for the people and culture of India. Dr. Maves, his wife Elizabeth, and his youngest son Christopher, support the Chinmaya Vijaya Orphanage and NRI Academy of Sciences in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. Dr. Netterville has served as president and founding director of Third World Medical Missions and co-director of African Medical Mission outreach since 1999. These two organizations oversee, organize, and fund otolaryngology–head and neck surgical medical mission trips to Aba, Nigeria, and Malindi, Kenya. As director, he oversees the anesthetic services for each trip, which provides surgical care in underserved rural regions. During each mission, he and his team manage difficult anesthetic care for more than 100 advanced head and neck tumors and congenital malformations, with limited equipment and resources. Hundreds of otolaryngology head and neck surgery attendings, fellows, residents, and medical students have benefited from his wisdom, generosity, and his example of unselfish service. In recognition of his service outside of our U.S. borders, Dr. Netterville was awarded the George Burrus M.D. Humanitarian Service Award by his peers at St. Thomas Medical Center of Ascension Health. He has also served on the board of Wayne Reed Inner City ministries of Nashville, TN. After graduating with highest honors from Lipscomb University, he attended medical school at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, followed by advanced training in cardiovascular anesthesiology. He was invited to join Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists P.C., based at St. Thomas Health Care in Nashville, where he has served as both president and senior partner. From 1989–2000, he served as adjunct assistant professor of anesthesiology at Vanderbilt Medical Center. After many years as lecturer and clinical faculty, he was elected to the Board of Trustees of Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia. Dr. Ossoff is the Maness Professor of Laryngology and executive medical director of the Vanderbilt Voice Center. After completing his residency training at Northwestern in Chicago in 1980 and fellowship training in 1981, he became the first Maness Professor and chairman of the department of otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in 1986. In 1991, he established the Voice Center as the first modern advanced training program in laryngology and voice care where more than 44 fellows have been trained. Dr. Ossoff was also a founding director of the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences. After 22 years as department chairman, was appointed assistant vice chancellor of compliance in 2008. In 2013, he was appointed as special assistant to vice-chancellor for health affairs at VUMC. Dr. Ossoff is a AAO-HNS former director. He served on numerous committees, including a five-year term as the development coordinator. He is a member of numerous otolaryngology societies and has served as past president of several. In April 2012, he completed his term as president of the Triological Society. He is certified in healthcare compliance by the Compliance Certification Board. Dr. Ossoff has lecturered at numerous local, regional, and national otolaryngological and compliance meetings. Dr. Ossoff serves on the editorial and advisory boards for several otolaryngology professional and compliance journals. Dr. Sofferman is emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Vermont School of Medicine/Fletcher Allen Health Care, and in 2006, he retired as chairman of division of otolaryngology. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and trained in general surgery at the University of Colorado, which was interrupted by a military stint. He completed his residency at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School and joined the University of Vermont Faculty in 1975. He became chairman of the division of otolaryngology in 1978, a position he had for 28 years. He received the Harris B. Mosher Award from the Triological Society for his work on “Recovery of the Optic Nerve,” and has published more than 70 manuscripts and book chapters on topics including head and neck oncology, and thyroid and parathyroid surgery. His 2012 textbook, Thyroid and Parathyroid Ultrasound, is the culmination of immersion in the clinical application of ultrasound. He established Vermont’s first cochlear implant program in 1986, which remains the state’s only clinically active site. In conjunction with the neurosurgical skull base team he performed all of the division’s neurotologic surgery from 1975 to 2006. He has been chairman of the Endocrine Surgery Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery and chair of the post-graduate course in head and neck ultrasound of the American College of Surgeons and its National Ultrasound Faculty for the past five years. His focus now is on the application of ultrasound to the diagnosis and management of a variety of head and neck conditions, ultrasound education, and his position on the Admissions Committee of the University of Vermont School of Medicine.