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| David S. Haynes, M.D., takes the helm of The Centurions |
The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is proud to announce and welcome David S. Haynes, M.D., FACS, as the new president of The Centurions. Haynes is excited to assume the leadership of The Centurions, succeeding Richard T. Miyamoto, M.D., FACS, FAAP. During Miyamoto’s tenure as president, Haynes served as secretary/ treasurer of The Centurions and was instrumental in the creation of the new DRF Centurion Clinical Research Award. As Centurion president, Haynes has also joined the DRF Board of Directors.
Haynes is an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. His appointments include director of The Otology Group of Vanderbilt, the Division of Otology/Neurotology, and Adult and Pediatric Cochlear Implant (CI) Program. He also serves as medical director of Vanderbilt Hearing and Balance Center. Haynes is the fellowship program director for the Neurotology Fellowship at The Otology Group of Vanderbilt,an internationally recognized fellowship training program in Neurotology. In addition to his appointment at Vanderbilt Medical Center, he has appointments at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, St. Thomas Hospital and Baptist Hospital. Haynes’ clinical interests include all aspects of otologic and neurotologic surgery including acoustic neuroma surgery, CI surgery, pediatric otology and neurotologic skull base surgery.
His research interests include work with CI surgical approaches, minimally invasive skull base surgery implantable devices, bilateral CIs, image-guided surgery and intraoperative facial nerve identification. Haynes has lectured extensively on otologic and neurotologic topics in the U.S. and other countries including Austria, Germany, Canada, China, Ireland, England and in South America. He is director of the Vanderbilt Ear Symposium, held each year in Nashville, and co-director of the Sisson International Course held each year in Colorado.
Haynes holds leadership positions in multiple organizations and advisory boards including past president of the Nashville Academy of Otolaryngology and Executive Council member of The EAR Foundation. He is a senior examiner for the American Board of Otolaryngology. Haynes has received an Honor Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery and The Triological Society. He has been named one of the best doctors in his fi eld by Best Doctors, Inc., and America’s Top Physicians. Haynes has served as guest editor of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America and was recently appointed as the chairman of the 13th International Pediatric Cochlear Implant Conference in 2013.
Haynes earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tenn., in 1987, with honors. He completed his residency in otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 1993. His fellowship was in otology/neurotology at The Otology Group/The EAR Foundation in Nashville, under the direction of Michael Glasscock, III, M.D.
The Centurions was formed in 1963 by Collette Ramsey Baker, founder of DRF, and Gordon Hoople, M.D., medical advisor to DRF, to support both clinical and basic research in the field of otolaryngology. This nationwide group of prominent otolaryngologists, researchers, audiologists, medical societies and ear product manufacturers remains dedicated to supporting DRF’s mission. Deafness Research Foundation is excited to offer in 2009 the fi rst DRF Centurion Clinical Research Award of $50,000. Applications for this award are reviewed by the Centralized Otolaryngology Research Efforts (CORE) program of the Academy of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery. For more information or to contribute to the DRF Centurion Clinical Research Award, please visit www.drf.org or e-mail centurions@drf.org.■
Deafness Research Foundation is also pleased to announce the election to its Board of Directors of:
Clifford P. Tallman, Principal, Soskin Tallman Inc., and
Peter Steyger, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Otolaryngology— Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Steyger has also been appointed Scientific Director of Deafness Research Foundation.
The election to the Council of Scientific Trustees of Deafness Research Foundation of:
Stefan Heller, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Research, Department of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine;
Sam Selesnick, M.D., Vice-Chairman and Professor— Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Director of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery, New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center; Chief, Neurotology Service, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital; Attending Surgeon: Neurosurgical Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and
Jennifer Stone, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Washington. ■
