UAB Otolaryngology Holds 14th Annual Residents' Research Day
The Department of Otolaryngology held its 14th annual Ann B. and Julius N. Hicks Lectureship in Otolaryngology and Residents’ Research Day on May 11, 2019. The lectureship was established in 2006 to help support resident education in otolaryngology and continues to provide distinguished guest speaking from throughout the country.
Guest speaker Dr. Tom D. Wang, Professor and Director of Otolaryngology – Division of Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University, kicked off the lecture series with a talk titled “Facelift Surgery Evolution.”
Throughout the day, PGY-3's through PGY-5's presented the results of their ongoing research activities. The first place award was presented to PGY-3 resident Dr. Lindsay S. Moore by Dr. Stites Whatley, president of The Alabama Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AlaSOHN). Moore’s research was titled “Panitumumab RDye as an Optical Imaging Agent to Detect Head and Neck Cancer During Surgical Resection Using the daVinci XI System.” Dr. Do-Yeon Cho, assistant professor in the UAB Department of Otolaryngology, presented the second place award to PGY-4 resident Dr. Justin P. McCormick for his research titled “Drug-Eluting Sinus Stent in the Preclinical Model.”
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