The ALA Award is a mark of recognition and esteem for outstanding achievement.

Edie R. Hapner, Ph.D., the George W. Barber Jr. Foundation Endowed Professor of Otolaryngology, Co-Director of the UAB Voice Center, and Director of the Division of Hearing  and Speech was awarded the prestigious American Laryngological Award during Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings (COSM) in May 2022. 

Hapner, an Associate Fellow of the ALA, champion of inter-professional care, and mentor to over 18 laryngology fellows, is only the second speech-language pathologist to receive this award in its 35-year history. 

“I am honored and humbled to receive this award and to be listed alongside some of the most inspiring and innovative laryngologists and scientists in the long history of the ALA. I share this award with my colleagues and partner laryngologists from Emory University, the University of Southern California, and now the great University of Alabama Birmingham, who have guided and supported my incredible journey into the world of voice and upper airway,” Dr. Hapner said. The ALA Award is a mark of recognition and esteem for outstanding achievement, either in medicine or in another discipline, which has contributed significantly to laryngology.