Report of the Triological Society

Byron Bailey to be new Laryngoscope Editor; Dr. Spector receives Presidential Citation

Byron J. Bailey, MD, has been selected as Editor of The Laryngoscope. Bailey, 60, is Weiss Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Bailey succeeds J. Gershon Spector, MD, who has been Editor of the journal since 1984. His long and distinguished service to The Laryrtgoscope and to the Triological Society will be noted with a Presidential Citation during the Society’s Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Fla.

“Jerry Spector’s expert and devoted hand has guided The Laryttgoscope for 10 years. He has made a singular contribution as Editor, and we are very grateful,” said Richard Gacek, MD, Tri- ological Society President.

Spector said he was honored by the Citation and pleased that a person of Bailey’s caliber would follow him as Editor.

According to Gacek, Bailey’s background as a former editor of the American Medical Association’s Archives of Otobytgology, makes him uniquely qualified to become editor of The Luryiigo- scope.

Bailey is a past recipient of the Harris I? Mosher Award and serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health, He is currently President of the American Board

of Otolaryngology and the American Laryngological Association as well as Treasurer of the American Board of Medical Specialties.

See BAILEY page 31a.

Byron Bailey, MD J. Gershon Spector, MD

Fowler, Mosher awards to Lambert and Sofferman The Board of Directors of the American Laryngological,

Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc. has selected the 1994 winners of the prestigious Fowler and Mosher Awards. Paul R. Lambert, MD, has been named the Fowler Award winner for his thesis, “Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration in a Mammal: Identifica-

tion of a Triggering Mechanism.” Robert Sofferman, MD, will receive the Mosher Award for his thesis, “The Recovery Potential of the Optic Nerve.” Presentation of the awards will take place during the Triological Society meetings at COSM in Palm Beach, Fla.

Four doctors will receive certificates of honorable mention for their theses. The honorees are Arthur S. Hengerer, MD; Larry A. Hoover, MD; Richard W. Waguespack, MD, and Steven M. Zeitels, MD.

Dr. Lambert, the Fowler award winner, is Director of the Division of Otology and Neurotology and Professor of the Depart- ment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville. He was proposed for membership by Drs. Robert Cantrell and W.C. McLean. The Mosher award winner, Dr. Sofferman, is Professor and Chairman of the Division of Otolaryngology, University of Vermont School of Medicine. He was proposed by Drs. Joseph Nadol and Nathan Guerkink.

Dr. Hengerer is Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Division of Otolaryngology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y. His thesis was entitled, “Choanal Atresia.” He was proposed by Drs. John Frazier and Marshall Strome.

Dr. Hoover’s thesis was “Mucosal Factors in Sinus Disease.” He is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City and was

Paul Lambert, MD Robert Sofferman, MD See THESES page 30a.

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Gacek lauds four at Section meetings More than 600 otolaryngologists attended the four Triological

Society Section meetings in January. Society President Richard Gacek, MD, honored an individual from each section who has roots at Syracuse University or at State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, where Gacek is chairman of the department of otolaryngology.

Gacek said the four men have the qualities necessary for a successful physician, imperturbability and equanimity, as well as a quality that make them leaders in the Society-curiosity.

Dr. Wesley Bradley was honored at the Western Section meeting. Bradley, an Emeritus Professor of Surgery in Otolaryngol- ogy at Albany Medical Center, has held high office in many prestigious societies and has received several awards, Gacek said Bradley’s Triological Thesis on the relationship between pitch dis- crimination and speech development had a bearing on the principles underlying the success of cochlear implantation.

At the Southern Section meeting, Gacek honored Jerome Goldstein, MD, who he called “an admirable role model for Tri- ological Society members and aspirants.” Goldstein is Executive Vice President of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

Gacek honored Dr. George Sisson at the Middle Section

meeting, noting Sisson’s many pioneering achievements in head and neck surgery and his role as an avid, relentless recruiter of young medical students to the field of otolaryngology.

At the Eastern Section Meeting, Gacek recognized Dr. George Reed as having made significant contributions to continuing medical education in his work on committees for the American College of Surgeons, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and many others.

Attendance at the meetings was down from 1993, in part because of bad weather during the Eastern Section Meeting. The Western Section meeting, in La Jolla, Calif., was under the direction of Robert Bone, MD, and was attended by 53 members and 76 non members and residents.

Edward W. Stevenson, MD, chaired the Southern Section meeting in Marco Island, Fla. That meeting was attended by 93 members and 108 non members and residents.

Forty-four members and 102 non members attended the Mid- dle Section Meeting in Rochester, MN. The meeting was under the direction of H. Bryan Nee1 111, MD.

The Eastern Section Meeting, in Ottawa, was under the direction of Arnold Noyek, MD, and attended by 54 members and 101 non members and residents.

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proposed for membership by Drs. Paul Ward and Thomas C. Calcaterra.

Dr. Waguespack, who is in private practice in Birmingham, Ah., submitted, “Mucociliary Clearance Patterns Following Endo- scopic Sinus Surgery.” He was proposed by Drs. Julius Hicks and Ed Stevenson.

Dr. Zeitels, Assistant Professor in the Department of 010- laryngology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, was proposed by Drs. Gerald Healy and Charles Vaughan. Dr. Zeitels’s thesis was entitled, “Premalignant Epithelium and Micro- invasive Cancer of the Vocal Fold: The Evolution of Phono- microsurgical Management.”

These six award winners were among a total of 23 candidates whose theses were approved by the Triological Society Board in January.

The other successful candidates, their sponsors and theses were:

Ronald G. Amadee, MD, New Orleans; proposed by Drs. Robert Miller and Harold Tabb; “The Effects of Chronic Otitis Media with Effusion on the Production of Transiently Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions.”

Charles W. Beatty, MD, Rochester, Minn.; proposed by Drs. Thomas J. McDonald and H. Bryan Neel; “Acoustic Neuromas and Pregnancy: A Flow Cytometric and Immunohistochemical Analy- sis.”

Brian Blakely, MD, Detroit, Mich.; proposed by Drs. Robert Maisel and Robert Mathog; “Off-Axis Rotation as a Test of Otolith Function.”

Phillip Daspit, MD, Phoenix, Ariz.; proposed by Drs. D. W. Frerichs and Lawrence DeSanto; “Auditory Function After Planned Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest.”

James A. Duncavage, MD, Nashville, Tenn.; proposed by Drs. Robert Ossoff and Fred Stucker; “Infrared Spectroscopy of Sinus Tissue.”

Douglas G. Finn, MD, Brooklyn; proposed by Drs. Frank

Lucente and Paul Chodosh; “Lymphoma of the Head and Neck and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Clinical Investigation and Immunohistochemical Study.”

Michael Hans Fritsch, MD, Indianapolis; proposed by Drs. Richard Miyamoto and Raleigh Lingeman; “Incision-less 010- plasty.”

Carlos Gonzalez-Aquino, MD, Hato Rey, RR.; proposed by Drs. James Reilly and Joan Zajtchuk; “Otolaryngologic Applica- tions of Er:YAG Laser.”

Steven D. Handler, MD, Philadelphia; proposed by Drs. James Snow and William Potsic; “Maturational Influences on Suppression of Vocal Cord Function by Anesthesia.”

George G. Kitchens, MD, Montgomery, Ah.; proposed by Drs. Charles Gross and Julius Hicks; “Relationship of Environmen- tal Tobacco Smoke to Otitis Media in Young Children.”

Nicholas E. Maragos, MD, Rochester, Minn.; proposed by Drs. Thomas J. McDonald and Thomas V. McCaffrey; “Thyroplasty in the Treatment of Laryngopharyngeal Disorders.”

Ralph B. Metson, MD, Boston; proposed by Drs. William Montgomery and Paul Ward; “Holmium:YAG Laser Endoscopic Sinus Surgery-A Randomized, Controlled Study.”

Fred Owens, MD, Dallas; proposed by Drs. Lewis Raney and Byron Bailey; “Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Temporal Bone.”

Peter Roland, MD. Dallas; proposed by Drs. William Meyerhoff and Steven Schaeffer; “Posterior Fossa Dural Arte- riovenous Malformations.”

Clough Shelton, MD, Los Angeles; proposed by Drs. Mans- field Smith and Derald Brackmann; “Unilateral Acoustic Tumors: How Often Do They Recur After Translabyrinthine Removal?”

William Silver, MD, Atlanta, Ga.; proposed by Drs. Nathan Gershon and Paul Keller; “The Medical Crural ’hck-up Procedure for Correcting the Ultra Nasal Tip Projection Deformity.”

Peak Woo, MD, Syracuse, N.Y.; proposed by Drs. M. Stuart Strong and Richard Gacek; “Quantification of Videostrobolaryngo- scopic Findings-Measurements of the Normal Glottal Cycle.”

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