Current Endowments
Endowments ensure that the Vanderbilt Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery remains funded and supported to continue groundbreaking research and provide compassionate, specialized patient care.
Endowed Chairs
Guy M. Maness Professor and Chair
- Robert H. Ossoff, DMD, MD (1986)
- Roland D. Eavey, MD, SM (2009)
Guy M. Maness Chair in Laryngology and Voice
- Robert H. Ossoff, DMD, MD (2009)
- C. Gaelyn Garrett, MD, MMHC (2019)
Odess Chair in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- W. Russell Ries, MD (2006)
Mark C. Smith Professor of Head and Neck Surgery
- James A. Netterville, MD (2005)
The Barry and Amy Baker Chair in Laryngeal, Head and Neck Research
- Wendell G. Yarbrough, MD, MMHC (2003)
- Young J. Kim, MD, PhD (2016)
Endowed Directorships
Leadership and Educational Development
- Rick Chandra, MD, MMHC (2018)
Pediatric Otolaryngology
- Christopher T. Wootten, MD, MMHC (2018)
Relationship Development
- David S. Haynes, MD, MMHC (2018)
Translational Research in Otolaryngology
- Robert F. Labadie, MD, PhD, MMHC (2018)
Endowed Fellowships
Smith Family Fellow in Head and Neck Surgery (2012)
- Eric Wirtz, MD (2012-14)
- Kelly Groom, MD (2013-15)
- Sunshine Dwojak, MD, MPH (2015)
- Shethal Bearelly, MD (2016)
- Jo-Lawrence Bigcas, MD (2017)
- Nolan Seim, MD (2018)
- Sarah M. Drejet, MD (2019)
- Catherine Alessandra Colaianni, MD (2020)
Caridad Bolivar Bacardi Fellow in Head and Neck Surgery (2013)
- Christopher Fundakowski, MD (2013)
- John Heaphy, MD (2014)
- Michael Sim, MD (2015)
- Alice Tang, MD (2016)
- Justin Bond, MD (2017)
- Brian P. Cervenka, MD (2018)
- William A. Stokes, III, MD (2019)
- Kevin J. Kovatch, MD (2020)
Michael E. Glasscock III, MD Fellow in Otology and Neurotology (2013)
- Matthew L. Carlson, MD (2013)
- Alex Sweeney, MD (201)
- Jacob B. Hunter, MD (2015)
- Brendan P. O'Connell, MD (2016)
- Matthew M. Dedmon, MD, PhD (2017)
- Robert J. Yawn, MD (2018)
- Nauman Manzoor, MD (2019)
- Elizabeth Perkins, MD (2020)
Endowed Lectures
- The John Q. Adams Lecture (1993)
- Unit S Lecture (1995)
- The Jesse Clyde Alley Lectureship (2001)
- Michael E. Glassock III, MD Lecture in Otology and Neurotology (2007)
- Biannual Odess Lectureship (2009)