From the Desk of the Chairman

Hello and Welcome to the Eye & Ear Foundation’s Winter/Spring Edition of the Otolaryngology Alumni Newsletter. You might be interested to see some of the awards recently won by our faculty. Additionally, there’s quite a nice list of grants that have been awarded this year. The year 2021 might reasonably be recalled as the year when COVID did not end. We are optimistic, however, that our annual Three Rivers Otolaryngology Update (AKA Alumni Day) will be a live event Friday-Saturday, March 18-19, 2022. As always, it will feature a resident research contest held in the memory of George and Robert Schein.

We provided for you a listing of approximately 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts published in 2021. It is a nice overview of the volume and scope of the work our faculty are doing. I also think you’ll enjoy the short interview on Mary Mitskavich. Mary completed residency training here in Pittsburgh in 1996. Her recollections as well as her remarkable success in the ensuing 25+ years are emblematic of the success shared with so many of you.

I invite all of you to visit with us whenever you have an opportunity. Hopefully this will include seeing you in Philadelphia at the time of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology— Head and Neck Surgery.

With kindest regards,

Jonas T. Johnson, MD, FACS Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology The Dr. Eugene N. Myers Endowed Chair The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Jonas T. Johnson, MD, FACS