Excited and grateful to be selected for this UAB GC-CODED pilot grant! UAB Otolaryngology

UAB Otolaryngology participating Birmingham Pride Parade tonight representing UAB Medicine at #Pride2022 #Birminghampride, the only Surgical department from UAB!!!

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 UAB Otolaryngology celebrating y’all means all.

Congratulations to Dr. Emily Miller! She received the 2022 AHNS Alando J Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant for her work on gut microbiome and surgical readiness in head & neck cancer (PI Miller, Mentor Thomas) UAB Otolaryngology AHNS

Congrats to my resident Caitlyn McGue, DDS, MD on winning the AAOMS - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Resident Research Award based on our work in epigenetics! So proud of you, and thanks to my collaborators on this project! UT OMS Houston Young Lab at UTHealth Carissa M Thomas MD PhD UAB Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Loma Linda U. Health NYU Dentistry

New Viet lab publication in Advanced Biology! We show that neurotrophin genes are dysregulated in oral cancer patients with metastasis, PNI, & pain; shRNA silencing of the genes reduces metastasis, PNI and pain in a preclinical model. Funded by @NIDCR doi.org/10.1002/adbi.2…

We are so proud of our PGY-3 resident, Emily Miller, for earning a 2022 CORE Grant for her current research to help further advancements in head & neck surgery! #ent #entresident

Loma Linda U. Health @DrChiViet & team awarded a $4M R01 grant for "The REASON Score: an Epigenetic & Clinicopathologic Score to Predict Risk of Poor Survival in Early Stage Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma" UAB Otolaryngology serves as a study subsite w/Carissa M Thomas MD PhD & UAB Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Dr. Anthony Morlandt

Dr. Bishop presenting our multi-institutional collaboration on antithrombotics & microvascular free flap outcomes at #OTOMTG22

Our 3rd-year medical student UAB Heersink School of Medicine, Olivia Ricks, won 1st place for her poster presentation (ft. research from Carissa M Thomas MD PhD's lab!) at the 2022 Southeastern States Annual Symposium in Honolulu, Hawaii. Congratulations, Olivia!🎉 SEMSS UAB Heersink School of Medicine UAB

Confused about circulating tumor DNA? Here’s a handy infographic from the AHNS Basic Science Translational Committee. #AHNSBST

Congratulations to @Shilpa_Rao1 for being accepted into the 2023 CCTS Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Training Program. This network provides educational programs for those interested in broad-based clinical & translational research! UAB Heersink School of Medicine CCTS

Applauding Carissa M Thomas MD PhD and UAB Oral Maxillofacial Surgery's Dr. Anthony Morlandt for receiving a year-long 75k research support grant from the OMS Foundation for their research proposal on the relationship between the oral microbiome & predicting the risk of metastatic disease. UAB Heersink School of Medicine

Check out our latest article on Carissa M Thomas MD PhD & Dr. Anthony Morlandt of UAB Oral Maxillofacial Surgery celebrating their receipt of a $75k research support grant from the OMS Foundation! UAB Medicine Read More: uab.edu/medicine/otola…

NRG-HN005 results of scheduled interim futility analysis comparing experimental arm to control arm for randomized phase II portion of the study showed that the experimental arm didn't achieve non-inferiority threshold per statistical analysis plan. conta.cc/3DRvsu2

MS3 UAB Heersink School of Medicine med student & mentee of Carissa M Thomas MD PhD, Olivia Ricks, won 1st place at the Medical Association of the State of Alabama annual session in Huntsville for her talk titled, "Toll-like receptor activation of macrophages modulates invasion of oral squamous cell carcinoma." Congrats, Olivia!

Congratulations to Carissa M Thomas MD PhD for receiving a second 2023-2024 NIH Loan Repayment Program Grant for her research proposal! This wonderful program helps recognize + honor researchers for their hard work with student loan assistance🩺

UAB Hospital was named the #1 hospital in Alabama for another consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report! UAB Otolaryngology is now #15 in the nation for ENT! 🥳 Read More: go.uab.edu/usnwr2023ent #MedTwitter #MedEd

That #FridayFeeling: DO-YEON CHO & interim chair Dr. Woodworth have received a $50k grant from the Bill L. Harbert Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship's Blazer Bridge Fund for their Antibiotic-eluting sinus stents project. #Congratulations 🔬