APPs’ onboarding and roles vary across subspecialties and practice settings, with evolving models enhancing patient access and provider efficiency.


APPs’ onboarding and roles vary across subspecialties and practice settings, with evolving models enhancing patient access and provider efficiency.

Academic otolaryngology department chairs share their experiences, challenges, and advice for thriving in leadership roles within academic medicine.

Becoming a department chair in otolaryngology requires a combination of clinical skill, academic success, and administrative ability. Several current chairs share their unique paths, challenges, and advice for thriving in this demanding leadership role.

The Resident Bowl team is collecting questions for the annual Resident Bowl happening at the 2026 Triological Society Combined Sections Meeting, January 22-24, in Orlando, Fla.


Many otolaryngologists find that engaging in personal passions outside of medicine helps them maintain balance, recharge, and improve their professional performance. This article shares the stories of four physicians who have integrated hobbies such as comedy, writing, philosophy, and prioritizing wellbeing into their lives to combat burnout and enrich their medical practice.

At 60 years old, after a fruitful career as a clinician–scientist, medical school dean, and provost at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Kerschner is pivoting his career to join Chartis, a leading healthcare advisory firm. In his role as a strategic transformation senior partner, Dr. Kerschner will apply not only his clinical and research expertise but also his leadership experience guiding a health system and medical school to help drive transformative change in healthcare.

Accord-ing to a 2021 Laryngoscope article, “Gender-Based Pay Discrimination in Otolaryngology,” “female otolaryn-gologist are paid 77 cents on the dollar compared to their male colleagues.

The Resident Bowl team is collecting questions for the annual Resident Bowl happening at the 2025 Triological Society Combined Sections Meeting, January 23-25, in Orlando, Fla.

The Triological Society (TRIO) has been awarded an R25 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to establish the Neely National Clinician–Scientist Mentorship Network. This program aims to cultivate the next generation of otolaryngologist–scientists through comprehensive mentorship, training, and networking opportunities. It will be the first national mentorship network for otolaryngologist–scientists.