FALL 2019 | VOL. 16, ISSUE 2 HeadsUp! News from the UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Moving to the UCSF Helen Diller Precision Cancer Medical Building has enhanced communication among departments and services. Relocation Offers Great Advantages for Head and Neck Surgical Oncology n August 2019 move into the UCSF Helen Diller Precision Cancer Medical Building (PCMB) is paying big dividends for patients, faculty, and staff of UCSF’s Head and Neck Surgical Oncology program. Though it’s only a three A Also in This Issue minute walk from the previous location at the UCSF Ron 2 Message from the Chair Conway Family Gateway Medical Building in Mission Bay, the new location’s benefits are far-reaching. 2 In Memoriam: Dale L. Tipton, MD The move to the PCMB has enhanced communication 3 Gaining an Understanding of among departments and services that are now located in the Speech Production same space. The result is more comprehensive care for patients. 4 Two New Faculty Join OHNS “The way we practice medicine nowadays isn’t that you go see this doctor and then go see the next doctor”, said Patrick 5 Nina Zhao, MD, Embarks on Unique Fellowship Path Ha, MD, Professor and the Chief of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and 6 A Team Effort to Reshape Neck Surgery. “While it’s just a building, the PCMB is set up for Cochlear Implant Program the way we like to practice. It allows for a seamless transition 7 New Residents and Fellows between the services.” Patrick Ha, MD 8 Upcoming Events Minimizing Travel Because of the involvement with different departments, many cancer patients in the past had multiple appointments to see physicians in different departments. Working closely with Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, and Dental Oncology at the Parnassus Campus, the Head and Neck Cancer Team would often have to send Continued on page 5

Inspired by our patients, driven by our passion, energized by innovation Message from the Chair In Memoriam A Time for Reflection Dale L. Tipton, MD he end of the year is a time to reflect on our accomplishments. As t is with sadness that I report that Dale we approach the end of 2019, this issue of Heads Up! shows how Tipton, MD, passed away on August 28, Tour department has continued to grow and advance. We have I 2019. new grants, new space, new residents, and new faculty. Dale was a 1966 graduate of the UCSF residency program in Otolaryngology. His As you’ll read in the cover story, our Head and Neck Oncology and co-residents in that graduating class were Endocrine Surgery Division has moved in to the brand new Precision Walter Henderson, MD, George Ryst, MD, Cancer Medical Building (PCMB) at Mission Bay. While the office itself and William McAfee, MD. is amazing, with the latest ergonomic and other Dale was originally from Parsons, benefits for patients and physicians, the real Kansas, but he was raised in Sacramento, showstopper is the organization of the space itself. California and attended UC Berkeley, Being in close proximity with all the related where he earned a B.A. in Physiology. departments and services and allowing the Head He served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Korea from 1953-1955, and upon his and Neck Cancer Team to work adjacent to its return he matriculated at UCSF School of treatment partners in infusion, dentistry, and Medicine. He was president of his medical radiation oncology has already paid dividends for school class and received a Master of work efficiency. We think this new space will have a Science in Pharmacology in addition to positive impact on the patient experience, as well. his MD in 1959. The recent recruitment of two new physicians Dale was in private practice in San was a real boon to the department. Lauren Francisco for just over 50 years. After Roland, MD, is a general otolaryngologist with a serving as Chief of Otolaryngology at San Francisco General Hospital in the 1970s, master’s degree in Clinical Research and fellowship Andrew H. Murr, MD he was Chief of the Medical Staff at Ralph training in rhinology who will increase access for K. Davies Medical Center from 1982–1984 patients in our general otolaryngology practice requiring secondary as and Chief of the well as tertiary care. Lauren will augment the hospitalist team headed Medical Staff at by Matthew Russell. St. Luke’s Hospital Kimberly Luu, MD, is a pediatric otolaryngologist who has special from 2002–2004. training in education. Her unique educational background and real As a member of the world computer engineering experience makes her an asset to the United States Army Reserves, Dale department and to the patients she will see at Benioff Children’s served as Chairman of Hospital San Francisco. the Department of On the resident side, our department has been approved by the Surgery at Tripler Army ACGME to grow from four residents to five residents per year. With our Medical Center in busy surgeons and research scientists, and our growing institution, Honolulu, and he we thought it was time to grow the residency education program as achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel well. You can read about our five newest residents and our four fellows Dale L. Tipton, MD on page 7. in 1985. Dale was an African American Finally, I hope to see you at one of our upcoming CME courses. surgeon at a time when few people of The Pacific Rim Otolaryngology Update is February 15–18 in Honolulu, color had the opportunity to be trained in Hawaii, and the UCSF Sleep Course is February 14–15 in San Francisco. the surgical subspecialty fields. He was Don’t forget: These courses are free to our UCSF OHNS residents in the universally respected for his integrity. first five years after graduation, so come and join us! Dale was known as an extremely skilled I hope you enjoy this issue! clinician who took great care of his patients and built a community following Warmly, based upon his insight and trustworthi- Andrew H. Murr, MD, FACS ness. He will be dearly missed by the Professor and Chair medical community at UCSF. UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery – Andrew H. Murr, MD, FACS

2 HeadsUp! Fall 2019 Drs. Houde and Nagarajan

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of Speech Production Optical mic Digital MEG Signal emediating speech deficits in understand what goes wrong in the detector Processor array people with neurological and patient population that has difficulty R psychiatric disorders is the processing auditory feedback during Earphones promise behind the work of two speech, resulting in abnormal speech. Setup for MEG studies of speech production prominent UCSF faculty. We are studying a range of conditions John F. Houde, PhD, director of the including autism, various types of Speech Neuroscience Laboratory in the dementia, cerebellar ataxia, spasmodic UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – dysphonia, unilateral vocal fold Head and Neck Surgery, and Srikantan paralysis, and schizophrenia. All of Nagarajan, PhD, director of the these disorders can impact the ability Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory in the to process sensory feedback in UCSF Department of Radiology and speech,” he continued. Biomedical Imaging, have been collaborating on speech production Problems with Sensory Feedback research for more than 20 years. “In our work we use MEG to look at Brain region with hyperactive response to motor control in speech,” Dr. Nagarajan speech feedback perturbations in patients added. “We can look at what goes with Alzheimer’s disease wrong during the speech production process. When speaking, one hears who have no speech production at all. oneself, and the brain monitors the Those so-called “locked in” patients, output. For some people, there are a have neuropathological conditions such number of different sensory feedback as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). processing problems that can occur, and that results in an abnormal Finding Therapies for response to hearing oneself.” Dysfunctional Speech Production John F. Houde, PhD (left), and Srikantan MEG imaging allows for mapping The work of Drs. Houde and Nagarajan Nagarajan, PhD and measurement of brain activity. is focused on understanding how the Drs. Houde and Nagarajan are using brain controls speech – so they can Understanding how Sensory those tools to show abnormal activity in develop remediation therapies to improve Feedback is Processed the brain during speech production. speech in people with intact but During Speaking “An advantage of MEG is that it dysfunctional speech production. Using magnetocephalography (MEG), a allows us to see brain activity prior to “Our goal is two-fold,” explained Dr. functional neuroimaging technique that and during speech,” Dr. Nagarajan Houde. “We want to better understand maps the magnetic fields elicited by explained. “Because of its high temporal the general speech production process, neural activity in the brain, Drs. Houde resolution, MEG is helping to lay the to the point where we can make a more and Nagarajan are exploring how foundation for developing and monitoring comprehensive model of it. That work auditory feedback is processed by the novel therapeutic approaches to will enable us to learn about normal brain during speaking. They are also remediate speech and voice.” speech production. Then, determining developing computational models to During the past two decades Drs. what model impairments cause it to simulate what happens in the brain as Houde and Nagarajan have mentored a replicate speech dysfunctions observed speech is produced and what can number of colleagues, including Edward in patients, we expect to get clues for the happen when there are speech F. Chang, MD, professor of Neurological development of targeted treatments that processing dysfunctions. Surgery at UCSF, who also studies will focus on the underlying abnormality “We make computational simulations speech production. Dr. Chang has come in central nervous system networks that of our model that attempt to replicate up with one such novel approach. control speaking. our MEG experiment results, and we use “Dr. Chang did a recent study in “We are using a design cycle where these studies is to improve our speech which a grid of electrodes was placed models make predictions that can be production model,” said Dr. Houde. directly on the cerebral cortex to decode tested experimentally, and where “We are investigating the idea of a subject’s speech from brain activity experimental data can be used to abnormal processing of speech alone. It is fascinating work that utilizes improve models. That way, we believe feedback, which partly explains the an individual’s brain activity to create better treatments can emerge, and we speech deficits seen in different neuro- synthetic speech,” Dr. Houde said. can monitor those treatments to address pathological conditions. In developing Dr. Chang’s study was motivated by disorders that impact speech and a better model, we will be able to the desire to enable speech in people voice,” he said. n

HeadsUp! Fall 2019 3 Faculty Profiles Two New Faculty Join OHNS Kimberly Luu, MD Lauren Tashima Roland, MD The UCSF Department of Lauren Tashima Roland, MD, joined the Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Department of Otolaryngology – Head Surgery welcomed its newest and Neck Surgery as an assistant faculty member in September, professor in the General Otolaryngology when Kimberly Luu, MD, division in August 2019. She will accepted a position as an contribute both at UCSF’s central sites assistant professor. and at satellite clinics in the greater “Dr. Luu will concentrate her Bay Area. practice at Benioff Children’s “Dr. Roland will eventually head Hospital San Francisco at the up one of our new satellite offices,” UCSF Mission Bay campus and Department Chair Andrew Murr, MD, will also contribute at a future satellite,” said Department said in announcing the appointment. He noted that “Dr. Chair Andrew Murr, MD, in announcing the appointment. Roland’s goals are to develop and grow a practice for the Dr. Murr noted Dr. Luu’s “unique educational patients who may not be able to readily commute to San background” and “real world computer engineering Francisco and wish to seek care closer to where they live.” experience,” which includes a shared patent related to “I’m really excited about serving patients beyond San her work with computers. Francisco,” said Dr. Roland. “We will be starting an Otolaryngic Dr. Luu completed her undergraduate degree in Allergy practice, and we will offer ambulatory surgery outside Systems Design Engineering with honors at the of San Francisco to patients who do not require overnight University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She stays in the hospital. Patients can also undergo surgery at the completed a quality of care research internship at UCSF Parnassus or UCSF Mission Bay locations if needed, but Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto in 2006. their post-op care can occur close to home.” In 2007-2008, Dr. Luu was a program manager in the Dr. Roland will be covering all aspects of General Health Solutions Group at Microsoft in Seattle, Otolaryngology, working at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Washington. Hospital and the UCSF Mount Zion campus until she takes Dr. Luu then attended the Schulich School of on responsibilities at a new satellite location. Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Dr. Roland is originally from Santa Cruz, California and Ontario in London, Ontario, which awarded her an MD in attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2012. She completed a residency in Otolaryngology- where she earned a BS in Biology and minored in Biomedical Head and Neck Surgery at the University of British Engineering. At MIT she developed an interest in immunology Columbia (UBC), where she served as chief resident in and drug delivery, which led to her decision to pursue a career 2017 before completing the program in 2018. in medicine. In 2019, Dr. Luu completed a fellowship in Pediatric She earned her medical degree at the Pennsylvania State Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University College of Medicine. Dr. Roland then went to the of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. She previously was a Otolaryngology Department at Washington University in Clinical Educator Fellow at the UBC Center for Health St. Louis for her residency. She completed two years of Education Scholarship, and she is currently earning a NIH-sponsored research during her residency and also earned Master of Health Professions Education at Maastricht a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation. Following University in the Netherlands. residency, she completed a fellowship in Rhinology, Allergy Dr. Luu has already been successful in competing for and Anterior Skull Base Surgery at Emory University in numerous small grants to support her work in pathways Atlanta, Georgia. development, virtual surgery, and in issues that affect Dr. Roland has extensive experience in clinical research and underserved populations and low resource environments. has worked on such disparate projects as an investigation of She is an author on nine publications and has two non-invasive brain stimulation and its effect on neural submitted papers and 10 more publishable projects in connectivity in tinnitus as well as a 15-year retrospective review the works. of acute invasive fungal sinusitis. She has contributed to or “I am confident that Kim will be a valuable resource authored 17 papers and two book chapters, and she has given to our educational programs, to our clinical practice, and six oral presentations at national meetings. Dr. Roland won the to our work in improving quality and outcomes,” said Medical Student Teaching Award in the OHNS department at Dr. Murr, who noted that “the Pediatric OHNS team at Washington University in 2018 and received a resident research UCSF will now consist of nine faculty members with a award through the Triological Society in 2015. n fellow in Oakland and San Francisco.”

4 HeadsUp! Fall 2019 Relocation Continued from page 1 their patients by shuttle to the various campuses for different types of treatment. There are times when the Head and Neck Cancer Team will notice that a patient is coming from far away and at the last minute it becomes clear there will be a need for radiation oncology services. “In a case like that,” Dr. Ha said, “our new location no longer means a shuttle across town or a rescheduled appointment for the patient. It’s so much “Now the teams that we regularly easier now to ask the other teams if they can see a particular patient on the spur collaborate with are right here with of the moment.” us, and we’re already noticing that Traveling between campuses is also an issue for the team. When meeting we can see everyone more easily. for Tumor Board, for example, the It’s so much better.” — Samantha Kahn participants would have to travel to Mission Bay from various locations. At The concept behind the PCMB management, and speech language the PCMB they are all housed under one was to create a shared space so the pathology. The Head and Neck Cancer roof and don’t need to travel to meet. teams that were located across UCSF Team can work best if they are in “We loved Tumor Board because it could be integrated into one space close proximity with all the related was our one opportunity to meet in and housed under one roof. Since the departments and services. As an person”, said Dr. Ha. “Now, if we need to PCMB is a cancer-centered building, example of what that means, Dr. Ha arrange additional meetings to discuss all the support services and teams – noted how “it’s kind of remarkable to the care pathway or other matters, we such as Nutrition, Social Work, and see that just a quick conversation can can do that much more easily than in System Management services – are work so much better than an email.” the past. So, there is more spontaneity now all integrated onto each floor. That Although the major impacts of the now. Not only in patient care, but also in allows each of the teams that is working PCMB will be on patient care, clinical the sharing of ideas and facetime with with particular patients to get to know research will also benefit. In the past, other physicians.” the other teams that are taking care of clinical and resource coordinators were those patients. housed at the Mount Zion campus, Team Integration which required that extra time be The benefits of the move were almost A New Pathway to Practice factored in when coordinating particular immediate for Head and Neck Surgical Medicine patient visits. Since the move to the Oncology administrative director The new location is helping Dr. Ha PCMB, there is a marked decrease in Samantha Kahn. “In the previous realize his vision for pathway of care. the time involved when enrolling a building our support teams and “That means how we approach the patient into a clinical research trial. schedulers were very far from the clinic, patient the moment he or she comes in Coming soon in the sequence of and the distance caused many lost and what the steps are that we think moves to the PCMB is an integration opportunities for improved patient care. appropriate to get to the right treatment of the Dental Oncology Department Now the teams that we regularly plan,” he explained. into the Head and Neck Cancer collaborate with are right here with us, This can be achieved by getting space. That move will enable Dental and we’re already noticing that we can the patient into not just surgery and Oncology to expand their clinical see everyone more easily. It’s so much chemotherapy, but also into other areas practice, which will allow patients to better,” she said. like dental, nutrition, symptom get into radiation faster. n

Nina Zhao, MD, Embarks on Unique Fellowship Path ina Zhao, MD, who completed UCSF’s OHNS residency program in 2019, recently began a Veteran’s Affairs Fellowship in Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research N while she pursues a master’s in Education at UC Berkeley. Dr. Zhao wishes to study different academic methodologies to improve training, and particularly to reshape how medical students are trained. “In medical school there aren’t a lot of voices that are surgeons,” said Dr. Zhao. “I had to go through surgical training outside of medical school to really learn surgery. I believe we need to make some changes to improve training once medical students decide to pursue surgery.” n Nina Zhao, MD

HeadsUp! Fall 2019 5 OHNS/UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland A Team Effort to Reshape Cochlear Implant Program dding an academic structure to an backgrounds. She is one of the surgeons existing clinically strong program who is practicing at both sites – UCSF A was the impetus behind merging Hospitals in San Francisco and also at two cochlear implant programs for UCSF BCHO. I think she is a good example of Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland (BCHO). how the hospital merger can work out “The merging of the cochlear implant well, because she is seamlessly fitting Sound and Music programs has offered a wonderful into both teams. opportunity to integrate care, facilitate “Her research addresses health care Perception Laboratory interdisciplinary learning and research, disparities and my research tends to be Seeks Top Musicians and collaborate on best practices to serve focused more on perceptual aspects of r. Charles Limb’s Sound and our pediatric deaf and hard of hearing hearing with the cochlear implant. We are Music Perception Laboratory population,” said Anna Meyer, MD, an both part of the overall team that together once again was named a associate professor of Pediatric Otolaryn- is trying to help deliver cochlear implant D National Endowment for the Arts gology and Director of the Cochlear care to the region,” said Dr. Limb. (NEA) Research Lab. It is receiving Implant Interconnect Program at UCSF. What Drs. Meyer and Limb are trying NEA research grant funding to Dr. Meyer works with Charles Limb, to do is allow the team at BCHO to engage in “yielding insights about MD, the Francis A. Sooy Professor of continue doing what they are already the arts for the benefit of arts and Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery doing so well with the support of the non-arts sectors alike.” and the Chief of the Division of Otology, UCSF and OHNS administration – to try Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery. He to bring an academic bent to what they Dr. Limb’s specific goal in is also the Director of the Douglas Grant do, and to allow the UCSF San Francisco collaborating with the NEA is to Cochlear Implant Center at UCSF and he team to take lessons from the clinical side investigate the complex relationship is the Medical Director of Cochlear of the Oakland UCSF team. between the brain and creativity. Implantation at UCSF Benioff Children’s “BCHO has a fantastic patient care To further his research the lab is Hospital, Oakland. Drs. Meyer and Limb program and can now pursue additional actively pursuing world-class collaborated to bring together the San scientific and academic activities to go musicians. Francisco and Oakland Cochlear Implant along with their clinical work. On our side “We are seeking really unique Services. of things, we had research activities and artists, to study their brains and their “When BCHO joined UCSF Hospitals, educational opportunities. Merging the creativity,” said Dr. Limb. we had to refine the best working model two programs combined our forces and is Using neural imaging studies, for patient care,” said Dr. Limb. “We now making both parts of the program Dr. Limb is focused on under- had two implant programs, initially stronger,” said Dr. Limb. n standing the creative process. With separate, but operating under the same the NEA funding Dr. Limb hopes to institution. One of the real opportunities Charles Limb, MD (left), and Anna Meyer, MD image the brains of world-class was the possibility of fortifying separate musicians to understand how parallel teams and uniting our services creativity and the relationship to into one joint program.” sound is formed. He added that “Anna Meyer is a As part of his research Dr. Limb pediatric otolaryngologist and I’m a gathers information from artists who neurotologist – we have different stand out. Relative to average musicians, Dr. Limb is trying to find out what makes “great musicians great.” He seeks out musicians who are extraordinary in order to study what makes their brains unique. As he put it, “You don’t really average Beethoven and Mozart together and hope you would get a prototypical classical genius. It doesn’t make sense. Rather than try to find, for example, all the Bjorks in the world, and group them together, maybe it would be better to find Bjork, and figure out what’s happening in her brain. Artists are the creative experts of our society.” n

6 HeadsUp! Fall 2019 Welcome to the Department INCOMING FELLOWS New Residents and Fellows Karam W. Badran, MD Dr. Karam joined the department in July RESIDENCY CLASS OF 2024 as the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Tania Benjamin, MD Surgery Fellow. He earned his medical degree from UC Irvine School of Dr. Benjamin earned her medical degree in 2019 from Medicine in 2014 with an Alpha Omega UCSF, where she received the Dean’s Summer Alpha distinction and distinction in Research Fellowship and participated in community Research. He completed his residency outreach as a member of both the UCSF Homeless in 2019 in the department of Head and Neck Surgery at Clinic and the UCSF Firefly Project to support patients UCLA, where he was the 2016 recipient of the UCLA who are coping with a life-threatening illness. She was Captain America Award in recognition of clinical and the administrator of UCSF Women in Surgery and is on academic excellence. He was awarded the American the selection committee for the Henry J. Kaiser and Maxine Papadakis Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy’s Travel and Course Teaching Awards. During 2016–2019 Dr. Benjamin conducted grant in Allergy & Immunology in 2017. research with Drs. Marika Russell, Kristina Rosbe, and Rahul Seth. Christopher Dwyer, MD Jacqueline E. Harris, MD Dr. Dwyer joined the department as a In 2019 Dr. Harris received her medical degree from Laryngology Fellow in July 2019. He the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) earned his medical degree from in Nashville, Tennessee, where she chaired the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Meharry-Vanderbilt Student Alliance to help organize St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, community service, educational, and social Canada in 2014. Dr. Dwyer received his programming for Vanderbilt and Meharry graduate post-doctoral specialization in and professional students. She was also co-chair of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery from the the Association of Women Surgeons Chapter at VUSM. In 2017, Dr. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western Harris was nominated by faculty members and awarded the Dr. Levi University in London, Ontario, Canada in 2019. He has Watkins, Jr. Diversity Medical Student Award for outstanding researched persistent primary hyperparathyroidism and contributions to the institution by fostering a more diverse environment. has presented on survival outcomes for cutaneous Sifon Ndon, MD melanoma of the head and neck, and mucoepidermoid In 2019 Dr. Ndon received her medical degree from carcinoma of the thyroid. Yale School of Medicine, where she was the Kathryn R. Hoppe, MD representative to the American Medical Association, After completing a residency in Medical Student Section. She was also the Associate Otolaryngology from Case Western Councilor for the Connecticut State Medical Society. Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Ndon was a volunteer in Uganda with the Dr. Hoppe came to UCSF as the Bryan Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Hemming Endowed Fellow in July 2019. Health and Human Rights and, as a summer intern with Harvard’s She earned her medical degree in 2014 Global Hunger Initiative in Uganda, she led a malnutrition protocol from the Medical College of Wisconsin training session for nursing students. in Milwaukee in the Physician Scientist Pathway Neil Nitin Patel, MD, MSc program. While in medical school, Dr. Hoppe received Dr. Patel obtained his combined Doctor of Medicine the Pasteur Award for Excellence in Microbiology and and Master of Science in Translational Research was accepted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor degree in 2019 from the Perelman School of Medicine Medical Society. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Lia Jacobson, MD accepted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Dr. Jacobson became the UCSF OHNS Medical Society. In 2018 he co-founded Synovium, a Pediatric Otolaryngology fellow in July startup that uses machine learning and AI technology 2019. After earning her medical degree to optimize treatment for rheumatoid arthritis patients. He has from the Keck School of Medicine at the authored several papers and presentations involving sinonasal University of Southern California in 2014, adenocarcinoma, allergic fungal rhinosinusitis, allergy and rhinology. she completed a four-year residency in Karolina A. Plonowska, MD the department of Otolaryngology – Dr. Plonowska received her medical degree in 2019 Head and Neck Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine. from UCSF, where she was named the inaugural There, she served as chief resident and was accepted Prendergast Clinical Research Fellow in Head into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Jacobson has been active in global outreach She also received the Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn overseas, including coordinating pediatric otolaryngology L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship. During and laryngology educational surgical missions in 2017–2018, Dr. Plonowska performed research with Mwanza, Tanzania, and participating in clinics in Drs. William R. Ryan, Patrick K. Ha, and P. Daniel Knott. Guayaquil, Ecuador. n

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