Sonya Malekzadeh, MD, Residency Program Director and Professor of Otolaryngology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, is joined by Stacey T. Gray, MD, Residency Program Director at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Sinus Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear; Jeffrey P. Simons, MD, AAO-HNSF Coordinator of Education and Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Richard V. Smith, MD, past AAO-HNSF Coordinator of Education and Interim Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and Carla V. Valenzuela, MD, a PGY3 Resident at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Chair of the AAO-HNS Section for Residents and Fellows-in-Training, to discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on resident education and how approaches may change moving forward.

Maria V. Suurna, MD, Dr. Hussain Abdulrahman Al Rand, Dubai, UAE; Dr. Med. Clemens Heiser, Munich, Germany; Dr. Marco Aurelia Safadí, São Paulo, Brazil; Professor Yilai Shu, Shanghai, China; Professor Claudio Vicini, Forli, Italy

Gavin Setzen, MD, AAO-HNS/F Past President; Albert L. Merati, MD, AAO-HNS/F Past President; Sujana S. Chandrasekhar, MD, AAO-HNS/F Past President; Cherie-Ann Nathan, MD, President of the AHNS; Joseph K. Han, MD, President-Elect of the; and Margo K. McKenna, MD, Director, Pediatric Otolaryngology at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

David M. Cognetti, MD, Associate Professor and Co-Director, Thomas Jefferson University Center for Head and Neck Surgery in Philadelphia, PA; Arvind K. Badhey, MD, a PGY-5 ENT Resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai in New York City; Usmaan Basharat, MD, an ENT intern in the same program.

Julie L. Wei, MD, Division Chief of ENT & Audiology at Nemours Children’s Health System and Director of Resident & Faculty Wellbeing; Jo A. Shapiro, MD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School; Sonya Malekzadeh, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology, and Director of the Residency Program at Georgetown University; and Aviad Haramati, PhD, Professor of Physiology, and co-leader, faculty training program in Mind-Body Medicine at Georgetown Hospital.

James C. Denneny III, MD, AAO-HS/F Executive Vice President and CEO is joined by Gavin Setzen, MD, AAO-HNS/F Past President and partner at Albany ENT & Allergy Services; Ronald B. Kuppersmith, MD, MBA, AAO-HNS/F Past President, partner at Texas ENT & Allergy; Stacey L. Ishman, MD, MPH, Surgical Director for the Upper Airway Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; and Marc G. Dubin, MD, Chair, Board of Managers, Centers for Advanced ENT Care in Baltimore, MD.

James C. Denneny III, MD, AAO-HNS/F EVP/CEO; Eugene G. Brown III, MD, Partner at Charleston ENT & Allergy Associates, and Board, OASIS Clinically Integrated Network; Cecilia E. Schmalbach, MD, Professor & Chair, Department of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery at Temple University, Director, Temple Head & Neck Institute, and AAO-HNSF Coordinator for Research and Quality; Joel Selanikio, MD, physician, technologist, entrepreneur, emergency responder, TED speaker and medical futurist.

Jo Shapiro, MD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and founder of the Center for Professionalism and Peer Support at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; William Blythe, MD, Partner at East Alabama ENT; Sonya Malekzadeh, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology, and Director of the Residency Program at Georgetown University; Julie Wei, MD, Division Chief of ENT and Audiology at Nemours Children’s Health System and Director of Resident and Faculty Wellbeing.

James C. Denneny III, MD, AAO-HNS/F Executive Vice President and CEO is joined by Ronald B. Kuppersmith, MD, Past President, AAO-HNS/F, Partner at Texas ENT & Allergy, and Professor of Surgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Douglas D. Backous, MD, Proliance Surgeons in Seattle, WA, AAO-HNS Board of Directors, and Kevin Watson, CEO of Colorado ENT and Allergy, and Past President of ASCENT to discuss emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic in clinical and surgery settings.

James C. Denneny III, MD, AAO-HNS/F Executive Vice President/CEO, is joined by Paul L. Friedlander, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology, at Tulane Medical Center, and Daniel W. Nuss, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, to discuss lessons learned from their experiences in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and how they might be applied in preparation to resume practice.