The David E. Schuller Lectureship Award is named in honor of David E., Schuller, MD, to recognize his numerous contributions to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and the The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

An internationally renowned head and neck oncologist, Dr. Schuller served many roles at Ohio State, including chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, vice president of Medical Center Expansion and Outreach, CEO of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center –James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute and professor, John W. Wolfe Chair, in Cancer Research. 

Chosen award recipients are internationally renowned for their accomplishments in patient care, research and education in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

Dr. Kelly served as a member of the department from 1972-2000, at which time he became faculty emeritus until his passing in 2014. Dr. Kelly was also a member and past president of the Franklin County Unit and Ohio Division of the American Cancer Society, the Sierra Cascade Trauma Society, the Columbus Medical Forum and the Ohio Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

Lecturers are chosen based on their accomplishments in medical economics.

The Guest Lecturer was added to the symposium in 2014 in celebration of the Ohio State Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Department’s 100th anniversary. The guest lecturer is chosen based on the impact they’ve had in the community, locally or nationally, throughout their life and career.

Konstantina “Tina” Stankovic, MD, PhD, FACS, has been named the David E. Schuller Lecturer for the 31st Annual ENT Alumni Symposium.

Dr. Stankovic is the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a Harvard-trained ear and skull-base surgeon and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained auditory neuroscientist.

Her clinical focus is in otology and neurotology, and she previously served as chief of the Division of Otology and Neurotology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

In addition to her clinical and administrative duties, Dr. Stankovic directs a basic science laboratory focused on improving diagnostics and therapeutics for sensorineural hearing loss. She has initiated and led successful crossdepartmental, national, and international collaborations to develop and deploy novel molecular diagnostics and therapeutics for hearing loss and otologic diseases in general, while educating the next generation of leaders in surgery and science.

Ness Shroff, PhD, has been named the David R. Kelly Lecturer for the 31st Annual ENT Alumni Symposium.

Dr. Shroff received his PhD degree from Columbia University, NY in1994 and joined Purdue University immediately thereafter as an assistant professor. At Purdue he became professor of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of CWSA in 2004, a university-wide center on wireless systems and applications. In July 2007, he joined the ECE and CSE departments at The Ohio State University, where he holds the Ohio Eminent Scholar Chaired Professorship of Networking and Communications. From 2009-2012, he also served as a guest chaired professor of Wireless Communications at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and an honorary guest professor at Shanghai Jiatong University. He currently holds a visiting position at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Dr. Shroff currently serves as the Principal Investigator and Institute Director of the NSF AI Institute on Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (ai-edge.osu.edu). His research focuses on fundamental problems in machine learning, network optimization, stochastic control and algorithmic design. His work contributes to the design, control, performance, pricing, and security of complex systems, such as communication networks, computing, storage and cloud based systems, social networks, and recommendation systems.

Dr. Shroff served as the editor in chief of the IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, and currently serves as the steering committee chair of ACM Mobihoc. He has also been the technical program chair of a number of IEEE and ACM conferences (e.g., IEEE INFOCOM 2003, ACM Mobihoc 2008, etc.), and has served on the editorial boards of various IEEE journals, as well as on the technical and executive committees of several major conferences and workshops. He has given several keynote addresses at major conferences and has also organized a number of workshops for the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Shroff is a fellow of the IEEE, and a National Science Foundation CAREER awardee. His papers have received numerous awards at top-tier venues. For example, he received the best paper award at IEEE INFOCOM 2006, IEEE INFOCOM 2008, and IEEE INFOCOM 2016, the best paper of the year in the journal of Communication and Networking (2005) and in Computer Networks (2003). He also also received runner-up awards at IEEE INFOCOM 2005 and IEEE INFOCOM 2013. In addition, his papers have received the best student paper award (from all papers whose first author is a student) at ACM Sigmetrics 2017, IEEE WiOPT 2013, IEEE WiOPT 2012, and IEEE IWQoS 2006. Dr. Shroff is on the list of highly cited researchers from Thomson Reuters ISI (previously ISI web of Science) in 2014 and 2015, and in Thomson Reuters Book on The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2014. He received the IEEE INFOCOM achievement award for seminal contributions to scheduling and resource allocation in wireless networks, in 2014.

Mark Inman, MBA, has been named the Guest Lecturer for the 31st Annual ENT Alumni Symposium.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Luther College and obtained his Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He started his career as the fiscal manager of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998 and went on to be named the section administrator of Cardiovascular Medicine in 2001. He became the administrative officer of Research and Sponsored Programs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005.

After noting the error of his Badger ways, Mark accepted a role as administrative director and chief operating officer of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in 2006. He maintained this role for 17 years, providing counsel to three department chairs (Brad Welling, MD, PhD; Ted Teknos, MD; and James Rocco, MD, PhD) and an interim chair (Ricardo Carrau, MD), and helping the department transition from a large community-based practice into one of the top academic programs in the country.

During his many years of service, Mark has seen the department through many changes and accolades, which include:

• Growing from seven physicians and two research faculty in 2006 into a current team of 50+ faculty members, 20+ mid-level providers, and many other staff members.
• Opening six new outpatient clinics, including the Eye and Ear Institute in 2012 and the first ever surgery center at The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center.
• Integrating the Division of Allergy and Immunology from the Department of Medicine into the Department of Otolaryngology in 2016.
• Establishing a central scheduling system, a self-pay pre-admittance policy, and a patient friendly atmosphere at all clinics (with current patient satisfaction scores at 95%).
• Helping to develop the divisions of Head and Neck Surgery and Skull Base Surgery into international programs.
• Achieving national status among U.S. News & World Report, most notably being ranked the #3 ENT program in the country in 2019.

In addition to overseeing the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Mark also served as the interim administrative director and chief operating officer of the Department of Neurology from 2015 to 2017. He started a new role as senior director of service line administration for surgical specialties within The Ohio State University Physicians (OSUP) on June 1, 2023.

 

David E. Schuller Lectureship Award: Carole Fakhry, MD, MPH

David R. Kelly, MD Lecturer in Medical Economics: James Fowler, PhD

Honorary Guest Speaker: David Schuller, MD; Bradley Welling, MD, PhD, FACS; Theodoros Teknos, MD

David E. Schuller Lectureship Award: Theodoros Teknos, MD