Course Directors

Christopher Brook, MD, FAAOA – Course Co-Director

Dr. Brook is a board-certified otolaryngologist who practices in an academic setting in Boston. He is originally from California and went to the University of California Santa Barbara for his undergraduate degree. He completed his medical school education at Albany Medical College in Albany, NY, and his residency in otolaryngology at Boston University. He then completed a fellowship in rhinology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. His research interests include the relationship of chronic sinusitis and allergic disease, as well as the relationship of allergen sensitivity and laryngitis. Chris lives in the Boston area with his wife and four children.

Disclosures:

Radmetrix – Consulting Fee
GI Reviewers – Consulting Fee

Cecelia Damask, DO, FAAOA – Course Co-Director

Dr. Damask is in private practice at Lake Mary Ear, Nose, Throat and Allergy in the greater Orlando, FL area. She received her DO from Midwestern University/Chicago College of Medicine and completed her residency training at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy and has presented at various AAOA courses and meetings since 2009. Dr. Damask currently serves as AAOA Education Coordinator.

Disclosures:

Audigy Medical – Consulting Fee
AstraZeneca – Contracted Research and Speakers Bureau
Genentech – Advisory Board
GlaxoSmithKline – Advisory Board
Optinose – Speakers Bureau
Sanofi/Regeneron – Advisory Board and Speakers Bureau

Michael Parker, MD, FAAOA – Course Co-Director

Dr. Parker received his medical degree in 1982 from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, and completed his otolaryngic residency there in 1987.  He currently practices privately, but maintains a close affiliation with the Health Science Center and is actively involved in teaching residents and students. Dr. Parker has served as a board member, Scientific Director, CME Chairman, and President of the AAOA, and in several faculty positions for the AAOA. He is the Past President of the Foundation Board.

Disclosures:

Optinose – Advisory Board and Speakers Bureau

Faculty

Elizabeth Mahoney Davis, MD, FAAOA

Newburyport, MA

Dr. Davis recently returned to academic otolaryngology in Boston after seven years in a private community-based otolaryngology and allergy practice.  She is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine, and is active in resident education.  Dr. Davis completed her undergraduate training at the University of Notre Dame and continued her medical education at the University of Nebraska.  She then completed her general surgery internship and otolaryngology residency at the Boston University Medical Center. She is a fellow of the AAOA and American College of Surgeons.

Disclosures:

Nothing to disclose

John A. Fornadley, MD, FAAOA

Hershey, PA

Dr. Fornadley is an attending physician at Penn State Otolaryngology, Hershey, PA.  He received his medical degree from Medical School at Penn State College of Medicine at Hershey PA and did his residency in Otolaryngology at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. In September 1999, Dr. Fornadley entered private practice in central Pennsylvania. His medical interests include eustachian tube function, ear and sinus surgery and his outside interests are sailing, diving, and cycling. Quote: “No teaching attending is worthless; they can always be used as a bad example.”

Disclosures:

Optinose – Speakers Bureau

Joshua M. Levy, MD, MPH

Atlanta, GA

Dr. Levy is a board-certified otolaryngologist who practices in an academic setting at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. He is originally from Maryland and went to Cornell University for his undergraduate degree. He completed his medical and public health education at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, where he also completed his residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. He then completed a fellowship in rhinology at Oregon Health & Science University. He is an assistant professor of otolaryngology and director of resident research at Emory. His research is supported by several industry, foundation and NIH awards, and involves exploration of biologics for allergic fungal rhinosinusitis, as well as the role of endogenous cannabinoids in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease. Josh lives in the Atlanta area with his wife and daughter Margot.

Disclosures:

3NT Medical LTD – Contracted Research
AstraZeneca – Contracted Research
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals – Contracted Research
Gossamer Bio, Inc.- Contracted Research
Optinose – Contracted Research
Regeneron – Advisory Board

Jami Lucas

Reston, VA

Ms. Lucas serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy and its Foundation, a position she has held since 1996. With over 30 years of otolaryngology association management experience, Ms. Lucas has unique industry expertise. Prior to working with the AAOA, she served in many staff roles at the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, from marketing and member communications to intrasociety relations. This experience gave her a better understanding of the scope of otolaryngology, the socioeconomic issues impacting the specialty, and intraspecialty interplay. Prior to working with otolaryngology, Ms. Lucas worked as a journal and handbook copy editor for the American Physiological Society.

Disclosures:  

Nothing to disclose

Michael Platt, MD, FAAOA

Boston, MA

Michael Platt MD, MSC is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine.  He is a fellowship-trained rhinologist who studies diseases of the upper airways via molecular bioinformatics approaches.  He serves as Program Director for the Otolaryngology residency program at Boston University.  Dr. Platt attended the University of Scranton and Jefferson Medical College before pursuing Otolaryngology training at Albany Medical Center and Rhinology Fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.  While at Boston University, Dr. Platt obtained a Masters Degree in Clinical Bioinformatics.  Dr. Platt lives in Brookline, MA, with his wife Judy who is the Director of Student Health at Boston University and his three children.

Disclosures:

GI Reviewers – Consulting Fee

Farrah N. Siddiqui, MD, FAAOA, FACS

Friendswood, TX

Dr. Siddiqui is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch.  After graduating from the Aga Khan University Medical College in Pakistan, she completed her residency in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.  Having practiced Otolaryngic Allergy in both a private practice and academic setting, Dr. Siddiqui strives to teach medical students, residents, physicians, nurses and her patients about the newest diagnostic and treatment options in the field of Allergy with a focus on safety and efficiency.  Dr. Siddiqui currently serves in the AAOA Item Writing Taskforce.

Disclosures:

Nothing to disclose

Jennifer Villwock, MD, FAAOA

Kansas City, KS

Dr. Jennifer Villwock is a board-certified otolaryngologist and fellow of the AAOA. She attended medical school at the Michigan State University – College of Human Medicine and residency at SUNY-Upstate in Syracuse, NY. Dr. Villwock is currently an associate professor and associate residency program director at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Her academic interests include olfaction and sinonasal disease. She is also passionate about medical education from the undergraduate level to continuing education. Dr. Villwock’s outside interests include “gardening” aka (according to her husband) digging up perfectly good lawn and then neglecting what she plants there instead.

Disclosures:

University of Kansas – Pending Patent for AROMA

Sarah K. Wise, MD, MSCR, FAAOA

Atlanta, GA

Sarah K. Wise, MD, MSCR is a Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the Emory Otolaryngology Residency Program Director, Rhinology Fellowship Director, and Director of Otolaryngic Allergy. Dr. Wise completed medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, residency at Emory University and rhinology fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Wise has served on the Board of Directors of the American Rhinologic Society and the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy. She is currently the 1st Vice President of the American Rhinologic Society and will become the society’s first female President in 2022. Her clinical interests include inflammatory rhinology, otolaryngic allergy, relationship of allergy and chronic rhinosinusitis, and cerebrospinal fluid leaks. Dr. Wise lectures nationally and internationally.  Her most notable publication is the International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Allergic Rhinitis (International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology, February 2018), where she served as first author and primary editor for this multi-disciplinary international effort that included 107 authors.

Disclosures:

ALK-Abello – Advisory Board
NeurENT – Consulting Fee
Optinose – Advisory Board
Sinopsys Surgical – Advisory Board
Stryker – Consulting Fee