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2004; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 12; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/01.moo.0000134816.75725.51

1531-6998

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgeery was launched in 1993. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery are divided into 11 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal’s Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Brian B. Burkey, MD, FACS Dr. Burkey joined the Department of Otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 1992. Dr. Burkey received his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University and his medical degree at the University of Virginia. After his residency in otolaryngology at the University of Michigan and his fellowship in head and neck surgery/reconstructive and microvascular surgery at Ohio State University, he moved to Nashville, TN with his wife Maureen and daughter Rachel. An Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Dr. Burkey is also Vice-Chairman for Academic and Clinical Affairs and is the Residency Program Director. As Vice-Chairman of the department, he helps oversee the administrative and academic affairs for the department and he directs patient care in the clinical setting.Figure 1.Dr. Burkey is an active member in many societies including the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, the North American Skull Base Society, the Society of University Otolaryngologists, the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Head and Neck Society. He is a Senior Examiner for the American Board of Otolaryngology and is a faculty member of the North American Association for Internal Fixation Surgery. Dr. Burkey serves on several editorial boards including Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery,Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Burkey is a prolific writer, with over 100 publications, articles and book chapters to his name. Along with his colleague Neal Futran, Dr. Burkey has written a book to be released in 2004 titled Microvascular Applications of Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgery. As an expert in the field of head and neck surgery/microvascular reconstruction, Dr. Burkey is frequently asked to be a guest professor/visiting lecturer and along with several other Vanderbilt researchers, he is helping to develop the Vanderbilt Head and Neck SPORE. Dr. Burkey has received many awards and honors during his career as an Otolaryngologist and is listed in the “Castle Connolly Guide: America’s Top Doctors,” “Nashville’s Top 100 Doctors,” the “Best Doctors in America-Otolaryngology Database,” and “Outstanding Young Men of America.” In 1997 he was elected as a Fellow to the American College of Surgeons and was named the 2001 Distinguished Mentor at their annual meeting that year. Active on numerous committees, he received the Honor Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery in 1999. In 2002, former Governor of Tennessee, Don Sundquist, appointed Dr. Burkey to the Board of Communication Disorders and Sciences and in 2003 he was asked by the ACGME to be a member of the Residency Review Committee. Sherard A. Tatum, MD, FAAP, FACS Dr. Tatum has dedicated his career to the treatment of children and adults with cleft lip and palate and craniofacial disorders. He did his undergraduate work at Rollins College in Winters Park, Florida. He earned his medical degree at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He continued on to his residency in General Surgery and Otolaryngology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. After his residency training was done, he went on to complete two fellowship years, one in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery at the University of Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany; and one in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of California at Davis Medical Center. He is Board Certified in both Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He has been at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University for eleven years and is currently an Associate Professor in Otolaryngology and Pediatrics. He has been the co-director and now is the Director of the Central New York Cleft and Craniofacial Center. He is the co-director of a Craniomaxillofacial Surgery fellowship and is actively involved fellow and resident education. He has given over 70 presentations and has authored, co-authored or edited over 30 publications. He is active in the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the American Cleft Palate – Craniofacial Association.Figure 2.He specializes in cleft lip and cleft palate repair, orthognathic surgery, correction of craniosynostosis, and craniofacial syndromes such as Crouzon syndrome, Treacher Collins syndrome, velo-cardio-facial syndrome, Pierre Robin Sequence, and many others. Dr. Tatum has also taken his expertise overseas to help children in Ekaterinaburg, Russia; Linyi, China; Ecuador; El Salvador, and most recently Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam. He has also traveled to Zagrab, Croatia to do reconstructive work on those injured by the war. He has received service awards from the Onondaga County Medical Society and the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for this work.