BOG Awards Spotlight New York Members
New York State Receives BOG Model Society Award The New York State Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (NYSSO) is the recipient of the 2013 Board of Governors (BOG) Model Society Award. Steven M. Parnes, MD, governor and public relations representative, and Gavin Setzen, MD, legislative representative, represent the society on the BOG. NYSSO members promoted ENT awareness observances through their practice websites including Kids E.N.T. month (February), National Sleep Awareness Month (March), Oral Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month (April), World Voice Day (April), and National Audiology Awareness Month (October). Additionally, many members offered free head and neck cancer screening services in their offices. Siobhan Kuhar, MD, PhD, made a media presentation to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, promoting the New York State Partnership Against Drowsy Driving. NYSSO is a founding member of the New York Coalition of Specialty Care Physicians. Legislatively, NYSSO leadership and staff participated in monthly coalition conference calls to plan activities for the 2012 state legislative session, including sponsorship of a fundraiser to honor four key legislative committee chairs, and a joint lobby day. Otolaryngology was represented at Lobby Day by NYSSO members from different districts in the state and two residents from the Albany Medical Center training program. Enactment of the hearing aid access bill was a cornerstone of the society’s legislative program and a focus of the coalition’s lobby day, several meetings with individual legislators, and roundtable discussions. Additionally, NYSSO created a database matching ENTs with members of key senate and assembly committees for targeted grassroots messaging about the New York hearing aid access bill. Understanding that any allied health practice expansion creates a domino effect and enhances the likelihood that other non-physician groups will enjoy similar success, NYSSO took a strong stand in opposition to a number of expansion bills including ones that would: Authorize certain dentists to perform any procedure in the oral and maxillofacial area regardless of its relation to the oral cavity; Expand podiatric practice to include treatment of, or surgery on, the ankle and all soft tissue structures of the leg below the knee; and Permit optometrists to prescribe a wide range of oral medications, including controlled substances. Additionally, NYSSO lobbied on proactive bills of importance to medicine including legislation: To allow collective negotiations between healthcare providers and certain health insurance plans under close state monitoring; To provide greater transparency and standardized disclosure of health insurance companies’ out-of-network payment policies; and To require truth in advertising for all health professionals. NYSSO does not have a political action ommittee (PAC) of its own, but established an advocacy fund and solicited contributions to help offset some of the organization’s costs related to coalition participation, support of legislative fundraisers, and advocacy efforts aimed at policy makers and insurers. BOG Practitioner Excellence Award The 2013 BOG Practitioner Excellence Award will be presented to Michael Setzen, MD, of Great Neck, NY. Dr. Setzen was nominated by his peers as having been at the forefront of otolaryngology as a private practitioner with a significant academic involvement manifested by the numerous papers, presentations at scientific meetings both in the U.S. and worldwide, and the organization of many major scientific meetings both locally and nationally. Dr. Setzen is nationally renowned in rhinology and has become a go-to person with respect to socioeconomic issues in otolaryngology. Throughout his professional career, Dr. Setzen has devoted a significant amount of his time as a civic leader and served in numerous leadership positions with national, state, and local medical organizations. Dr. Setzen is the immediate past president of the American Rhinologic Society (ARS). At the AAO-HNS, he is a past BOG chair and currently serves as the co-chair of Physician Payment Policy Workgroup (3P), that acts on behalf of the Academy responsible for all issues related to socioeconomic affairs and practice management and is a key component of health policy for the Academy. He is also a member of the AAO-HNS Board of Directors and has been a member on the board on and off for the past 20 years in different capacities, as board representative for private practice and most recently as chair of practice management. His dedication in service to AAO-HNS is evidenced by the two awards he has received from the Academy, namely, the Honor Award and the Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of the Millennium Society, Partners for Progress, and the ENT PAC. Dr. Setzen has been the president of the Long Island Society of Otolaryngology, Nassau Surgical Society, and the New York Head and Neck Society. Dr. Setzen is the chief of the rhinology section at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY, a clinical associate professor of otolaryngology at NYU School of Medicine, and adjunct clinical assistant professor of otolaryngology at Weill Cornell University College of Medicine.Please join the Board of Governors to honor NYSSO and Dr. Setzen during the BOG General Assembly meeting, Monday afternoon, September 30, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
New York State Receives BOG Model Society Award
The New York State Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (NYSSO) is the recipient of the 2013 Board of Governors (BOG) Model Society Award. Steven M. Parnes, MD, governor and public relations representative, and Gavin Setzen, MD, legislative representative, represent the society on the BOG.
NYSSO members promoted ENT awareness observances through their practice websites including Kids E.N.T. month (February), National Sleep Awareness Month (March), Oral Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month (April), World Voice Day (April), and National Audiology Awareness Month (October). Additionally, many members offered free head and neck cancer screening services in their offices. Siobhan Kuhar, MD, PhD, made a media presentation to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, promoting the New York State Partnership Against Drowsy Driving. NYSSO is a founding member of the New York Coalition of Specialty Care Physicians.
Legislatively, NYSSO leadership and staff participated in monthly coalition conference calls to plan activities for the 2012 state legislative session, including sponsorship of a fundraiser to honor four key legislative committee chairs, and a joint lobby day. Otolaryngology was represented at Lobby Day by NYSSO members from different districts in the state and two residents from the Albany Medical Center training program.
Enactment of the hearing aid access bill was a cornerstone of the society’s legislative program and a focus of the coalition’s lobby day, several meetings with individual legislators, and roundtable discussions. Additionally, NYSSO created a database matching ENTs with members of key senate and assembly committees for targeted grassroots messaging about the New York hearing aid access bill.
Understanding that any allied health practice expansion creates a domino effect and enhances the likelihood that other non-physician groups will enjoy similar success, NYSSO took a strong stand in opposition to a number of expansion bills including ones that would:
- Authorize certain dentists to perform any procedure in the oral and maxillofacial area regardless of its relation to the oral cavity;
- Expand podiatric practice to include treatment of, or surgery on, the ankle and all soft tissue structures of the leg below the knee; and
- Permit optometrists to prescribe a wide range of oral medications, including controlled substances.
Additionally, NYSSO lobbied on proactive bills of importance to medicine including legislation:
- To allow collective negotiations between healthcare providers and certain health insurance plans under close state monitoring;
- To provide greater transparency and standardized disclosure of health insurance companies’ out-of-network payment policies; and
- To require truth in advertising for all health professionals.
NYSSO does not have a political action ommittee (PAC) of its own, but established an advocacy fund and solicited contributions to help offset some of the organization’s costs related to coalition participation, support of legislative fundraisers, and advocacy efforts aimed at policy makers and insurers.
BOG Practitioner Excellence Award
The 2013 BOG Practitioner Excellence Award will be presented to Michael Setzen, MD, of Great Neck, NY. Dr. Setzen was nominated by his peers as having been at the forefront of otolaryngology as a private practitioner with a significant academic involvement manifested by the numerous papers, presentations at scientific meetings both in the U.S. and worldwide, and the organization of many major scientific meetings both locally and nationally.
Dr. Setzen is nationally renowned in rhinology and has become a go-to person with respect to socioeconomic issues in otolaryngology. Throughout his professional career, Dr. Setzen has devoted a significant amount of his time as a civic leader and served in numerous leadership positions with national, state, and local medical organizations.
Dr. Setzen is the immediate past president of the American Rhinologic Society (ARS). At the AAO-HNS, he is a past BOG chair and currently serves as the co-chair of Physician Payment Policy Workgroup (3P), that acts on behalf of the Academy responsible for all issues related to socioeconomic affairs and practice management and is a key component of health policy for the Academy. He is also a member of the AAO-HNS Board of Directors and has been a member on the board on and off for the past 20 years in different capacities, as board representative for private practice and most recently as chair of practice management. His dedication in service to AAO-HNS is evidenced by the two awards he has received from the Academy, namely, the Honor Award and the Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of the Millennium Society, Partners for Progress, and the ENT PAC.
Dr. Setzen has been the president of the Long Island Society of Otolaryngology, Nassau Surgical Society, and the New York Head and Neck Society. Dr. Setzen is the chief of the rhinology section at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY, a clinical associate professor of otolaryngology at NYU School of Medicine, and adjunct clinical assistant professor of otolaryngology at Weill Cornell University College of Medicine.Please join the Board of Governors to honor NYSSO and Dr. Setzen during the BOG General Assembly meeting, Monday afternoon, September 30, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.