Alumni

Message from the Co-Presidents
We are proud to be serving as co-presidents of the Duke Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences Alumni Society for the third straight year. As you may already know, this is an exciting time to be associated with Duke HNSCS! As of July 1, Duke HNSCS is now its own department! This has been years in the making and, thanks to the hard work of many people including Howard Francis and Ray Esclamado, finally a reality. We have hired several new faculty members in all of the subspecialties who will be expanding our clinical and research activities at Duke, and many of our current faculty have been honored at local, regional, and national levels.
We look forward to working with you all to continue to make the Alumni Society a vibrant community where we can all benefit from one another and come alongside future Duke HNSCS alumni. We would love to connect with you at some of the national conferences (look out for announcements for this) or at the yearly Alumni and Graduation event next June. Please contact us if you would like to be involved more with the Alumni Society, if you have questions about alumni issues, or if you have suggestions on how to make the Alumni Society better!
Russel Kahmke, MD
Class of 2015
Dan Rocke, MD
Class of 2014
Other Officers
Chris Tebbit, VP
Class of 2009
Mark LaVigne, Treasurer
Class of 1995
Kevin Choi, MD
Class of 2017
Annual Meeting
The faculty/alumni would love to see other alumni for cocktails:
Monday, September 16, 2019
Galatoire’s 33 Bar and Steak
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Save the Date
Mark your calendars for the 2020 Alumni Event that will be held on May 15 and 16.
2019 Graduates
Graduating Residents With Faculty
From left: Dr. Charles Woodard, Residency Program Director, Associate Professor of Surgery, Dr. Liana Puscas, Associate Professor of Surgery, Dr. Scott Brown, OHNS Residency Graduate, Dr. Anatoli Karas, OHNS Residency Graduate, Dr. Tawfiq Khoury, OHNS Residency Graduate, Dr. Debara Tucci, Professor of Surgery, and Dr. Howard Francis, Professor and Chair, Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Graduating Residents
From left: OHNS Graduating Residents Drs. Tawfiq Khoury, Anatoli Karas, and Scott Brown