Surgeon Scientist Symposium in Otolaryngology (S3O)

July 24-25, 2025

Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN

2-day "boot camp style" annual symposium assembling promising otolaryngology residents, fellows, and early career faculty for a host of lectures, workshops, and panels that focus on keys to research success. This conference is designed to motivate participants and provide them with the tools needed to achieve success in translational research. 

Symposium Co-Directors: Aaron Moberly, MD and Justin H. Turner, MD, PhD

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Registration required by June 24, 2025.

*Registrations requesting childcare required by May 24, 2025. 

TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE!

A select number of travel grants in the amount of $1,000.00 each are available to qualifying applicants. To submit your application for a travel grant and learn about the application requirements, please visit the application submission page by May 24, 2025. 

  • The Surgeon Scientist Symposium in Otolaryngology (S3O)'s goal is to provide instruction, mentorship, and career development tools to aspiring and promising residents, fellows, and early career faculty in Otolaryngology to establish a successful clinician-scientist career. 

    This symposium is designed to address this important problem by providing high-quality training in research methodology and data analysis, career development tools, and opportunities for mentoring by successful clinician-scientists to participants who may not have access to such support at their own institutions.

    Additionally, this conference can also be used to supplement training of prospective attendees already undergoing mentorship and training at their own institutions in an effort to strengthen the network between trainees of all levels and resources across the country; pursing the shared goal of maintaining and developing the biomedical workforce in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Communication Sciences.
     

  • Symposium Co-Directors: Aaron Moberly, MD and Justin H. Turner, MD, PhD

    Principal Co-Investigators: Justin H. Turner, MD, PhD and Aaron Moberly, MD

    Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Grandis, MD: University of California San Francisco | Professor, Otolaryngology | Associate Vice Chancellor, Clinical and Translational Research | Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute 

    Invited Faculty:

    Robert F Labadie MD, PhD: Medical University of South Carolina | Chair, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

    Jay F. Piccirillo, MD, FACS: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis | Professor of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery | Vice Chair for Research | Director, Clinical Outcomes Research Office | Director, Physician-Scientist Training Program

    Stella Lee, MD: Harvard Medical School, Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery | Director, Brigham Sinus Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Alexander Tell Hillel, MD: Johns Hopkins Medicine | Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

  • This educational investment is funded by NIH R13 DC021381 “Early Career Development of Clinician-scientists in Otolaryngology and the Communication Sciences”, enabling travel grants for qualified participants.


    The planning committee of the Surgeon Scientist Symposium is committed to recruiting qualified trainees to participate as both faculty and attendees.


    This symposium will provide childcare at no cost for our participants. Vanderbilt maintains several partnerships with sitting and
    nanny services for faculty and staff in need of sitting services. Meeting attendees will have the option of requesting childcare
    services during the registration process and arrangements will be made on their behalf.

  • 2025 schedule in development. Please note that all necessary software for the course will be provided to participants at no cost. 

    Click here to view the 2024 Symposium agenda. 

  • REGISTER HERE

    Registration is required on or before June 24, 2025. Please note that registration is free of cost, but will require the following information:

    • Educational background
    • Institution/program of study
    • Research interests
    • Research opportunities available at your institution
    • Demographics

    Registrations requesting on-site childcare are required by May 24, 2025. 

    Travel grant applications are required by May 24, 2025. To submit a travel grant application, please visit the application submission webpage.