Legacy of Excellence Digital Flipbook

LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE

Also launched in 2009 was the Industry Round Table (IRT). It consisted of corporate supporters that furthered the mission of the Academy through charitable giving. These organizations were leaders in the industry that had an appreciation for the value of a vital partnership between industry and the Academy. To complement the IRT program, the Academy Advantage affinity program was redesigned and re-launched in 2009 with new benefits to corporate partners and guaranteed revenues for the Academy. In 2010, the Academy began a new form of corporate support and partnership—the AAO-HNS Partners for Progress, which offered private practice and academic groups the opportunity to partner with the AAO-HNS/F and to show what was most important to them by providing an annual donation in support of their interest areas.

The Women in Otolaryngology (WIO) Endowment was established in 2010 from an idea that stemmed from Pell Ann Wardrop, MD. She collaborated with Sujana S. Chandrasekhar, MD, and Linda S. Brodsky, MD, and WIO Chair Sonya Malekzadeh, MD, and the endowment was born with more than $400,000 in gifts and pledges over the four days of the 2010 Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The endowment focused on providing a perpetual stream of funding, in the form of grants, for projects that supported actionable research and/or projects that were designed to benefit the professional development of women in otolaryngology. The Harry Barnes Society Endowment for Resident Leadership was also realized in 2010. On Sunday night at the 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO, the Harry Barnes Society was hosting a gathering in the lobby of the Westin Hotel. AAO-HNSF staff, on their way to dinner, stopped in to say hello. As the conversation turned to a discussion of the society’s desire to advance the needs and issues of those of African descent in otolaryngology, Dr. Taylor and staff quickly realized there was a way that the AAO-HNSF and the Harry Barnes Society could collaborate to strengthen its mission. Thus, the endowment was born and provided much-needed funding for young residents of African descent to participate in career-molding educational

Founding Partners for Progress groups: (back row, L-R) B. Todd Schaeffer, MD; Robert A. Glazer, MPA; Marc J. Levine, MD; I. David Bough, Jr., MD; Steven H. Sacks, MD; John J. Grosso, MD; Jay S. Youngerman, MD; (front row, L-R) R. Tyson Deal, MD; Edward A. Porubsky, MD; Patrick E. Brookhouser, MD; Rodney P. Lusk, MD; Sujana S. Chandrasekhar, MD; Richard W. Waguespack, MD; Michael Setzen, MD. Not pictured: J. Noble Anderson, MD; A. Craig Chapman, MD; Moshe Ephrat, MD; Howard S. Kotler, MD; Michael A. Rothschild, MD; Pell Ann Wardrop, MD.

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