Candidate statements: BOG candidate: chair-elect
My 13 years of BOG service have been modeled upon the principles of commitment to excellence, understanding of the issues affecting medicine, integrity, and passion to carry out this important work.
What are your qualifications and what is your experience?
My 13 years of BOG service have been modeled upon the principles of commitment to excellence, understanding of the issues affecting medicine, integrity, and passion to carry out this important work.
My qualifications include:
BOG:
- Current chair of the Rules & Regulations Committee
- Executive Committee member since 2008
- Member-at-Large
- Vice-chair of the Legislative Representative Committee
- Regular attendance at biannual meetings since 2003
Academy and Foundation:
- Scientific presenter
- Course instructor
- Author of independent research
- Journal reviewer
- Dynamic member of multiple committees and initiatives including:
- General Otolaryngology Education (Chair-elect)
- Education Steering
- Sleep Disorders
- Outcomes Research and Evidence-based Medicine
- Guideline Taskforce
- Development
- ENT PAC Board (twice)
- Hal Foster Society Founder
- Millennium Society
Local/Regional:
- President of the Maryland Society of Otolaryngology
- BOG representative for the Cincinnati ENT Society.
Otolaryngologists make a difference in people’s lives every day. There is no bigger honor than to represent such a talented and caring group of individuals.
Given the Academy’s strategic plan, outline and prioritize your goals for the Board of Governors.
I feel passionately that the BOG must help otolaryngologists combat the loss of individual autonomy coupled with decreasing reimbursement and increasing expenses/mandates. As BOG Chair, I will work with Academy leadership to aggressively respond to these challenges.
My focus will be on action-oriented advocacy programs including the ENT Advocacy Network, I-GO program, and ENT-PAC. Similarly, communication with our societies and education regarding the changing landscape of healthcare will be priorities.
I will champion grassroots input as we roll out the ENT data registry in order to address national quality reporting system requirements and establish data to benchmark our personal quality ratings.
Moreover, society engagement is imperative and I will expedite creation of an online toolbox for member societies.
Lastly, I will focus on inclusion and engagement of all otolaryngologists so that our BOG represents the concerns of trainees, young physicians, experienced Members, generalists, and subspecialists.
What are your qualifications and what is your experience?
I have been a long-term dedicated supporter and leader of our Academy’s mission. I am currently the elected BOG Secretary, BOG Executive Committee member, and past Vice-chair of the BOG Socioeconomic & Grassroots Committee. I have previously served as a member of the Academy’s Board of Directors and chair of the Academy’s Young Physician’s Section. I have also served on the BOG Legislative Affairs and Public Relations committees. I have been a presenter, instructor, journal reviewer, Millennium Society member, and Honor Award recipient for the Academy. On behalf of all surgeons, I have lobbied for healthcare and liability reform on Capitol Hill on several occasions. I have also held leadership positions in the American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, Northwest Academy of Otolaryngology, American Rhinologic Society, and American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Through these leadership experiences, I feel ready and prepared for the role of BOG Chair.
Given the Academy’s strategic plan, outline and prioritize your goals for the Board of Governors.
The AAO-HNS strategic plan has outlined goals for advocacy, education and knowledge, research and quality, Member
engagement and unity, and sustainability. We are at a crossroads in medicine with reimbursement changes, liability threats, and healthcare reform. Fortunately, our Academy’s strategic plan proactively creates programs to address these challenges.
As BOG Chair, my utmost priority would be to listen to our Members as individuals or as Members of state and specialty societies to convey the state of our specialty. I would ensure that our Academy comprehends the current practice climate to heighten and facilitate implementation of the strategic plan. More specifically, I would set goals of developing programs in quality, safety, and optimizing reimbursement.
The Board of Governors was established to provide a broad and diverse voice for its membership. As your BOG Chair, I will do my best to make sure our Academy hears that voice.
