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FLEX – Focused Lifelong Education Xperience

2024-2025 FLEX Registration Now Open!

The һ��ϲ�F’s new flagship education product, FLEX—Focused Lifelong Education Xperience, provides the knowledge, education, clinical tools, and professional support to help you meet the challenges of your otolaryngology practice and build mastery throughout your career.

Please contact us at [email protected] for any questions.

FAQs

The eight specialty topics for 2024-2025 include:

Subscription begins September 1, 2024, and ends August 31, 2025

Nasal Obstruction (September)
Swallowing Disorders in the Adult Patient (October)
Current Concepts in Thyroid Cancer (November)

Adult Sensorineural Hearing Loss (January)
Vascular Malformations (February)
Getting Paid Your Worth: Coding, Billing, and Contract Negotiations with Insurances and with Employers (March)

Nonneoplastic Salivary Diseases (April)
Treatment of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate (May)

FLEX Learning Modalities

Spanning across all eight specialty areas throughout the year, each topic will be presented in a variety of creative and contemporary learning modalities.

Built on a fundamental learning philosophy that the needs and preferences for otolaryngology education will continue to evolve over time—so will the tools provided in the FLEX subscription to ensure they remain timely and relevant for all learners.

The 2023-2024 FLEX program closes August 31, 2024 for content access and CME submissions.

Annual Subscription Fee

Physician and Advanced Practice Providers
- Early Rates (June 2024 – October 7, 2024):
  Member $500 | Nonmember $875
- Regular Rates (October 8, 2024 – February 3, 2025):
  Member $550 | Nonmember $975
- Late Rates (February 4, 2025 – April 1, 2025):
  Member $635 | Nonmember $1,100
Resident: Member $385 | Nonmember $610
International Physician, Fellow and Resident Members
- Low Middle Income: 50% off (Rate applicable to World Bank Low Middle Income Designated Countries, plus Mexico and Brazil.)
- Low Income: 50% off (Rate applicable to World Bank Low Middle Income Designated Countries, plus India and Philippine residents.)

The discount will process once the product has been added to your shopping cart and you proceed to payment.

CME and Accreditation Information

This CME activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. һ��ϲ�F is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

һ��ϲ�F designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge Stacy T. Gray, MD, FLEX Curriculum Chair, FLEX Workgroup Chairs, and more than 180 Foundation education experts who have contributed to the success of the third year of FLEX.

FLEX CURRICULUM CHAIR

Stacey T. Gray, MD

FACIAL PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

P. Daniel Knott, MD,��󲹾��

GENERAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY AND SLEEP MEDICINE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Cristina Cabrera-Muffly, MD, Chair

HEAD AND NECK SURGERY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Vikas Mehta, MD,��󲹾��

LARYNGOLOGY & BRONCHOESOPHAGOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Paul C. Bryson, MD, Chair

OTOLOGY & NEUROTOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Maura Cosetti, MD,��󲹾��

PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Meredith Merz Lind, MD,��󲹾��

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Betty S. Tsai Do, MD, Chair

RHINOLOGY & ALLERGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Zara M. Patel, MD, Chair

2022-2022 FLEX FOUNDATION EDUCATION COMMITTEE FACULTY

Nicole L. Aaronson, MD, MBA
Yassmeen Abdel-Aty, MD
Marianne Abouyared, MD
Meredith Adams, MD
Oliver Adunka, MD
Iram N. Ahmad, MD
Syed Ahsan, MD
Mursalin M. Anis, MD
Michael Avillion, MD
Christopher H. Azbell, MD
Douglas D. Backous, MD
H. Michael Baddour, MD
Marc Bennett, MD
Mathieu Bergeron, MD
Daniel M. Beswick, MD
Arnaud Bewley, MD
Kathleen R. Billings, MD
Benjamin Bleier, MD
Lauren A. Bohm, MD
Jenna W. Briddell Huckel, MD
Scott E. Brietzke, MD, MPH
Chris Brook, MD
Seth Brown, MD
Paul Bryson, MD
Ken Byrd, MD
Cristina Cabrera-Muffly, MD
Matthew Carlson, MD
Salvatore M. Caruana, MD
Erika Celis-Aguilar, MD
Yvonne Chan, MD
Christopher Y. Chang, MD
CW David Chang, MD
Jeffrey Cheng, MD
David H. Chi, MD
Robert H. Chun, MD
David Cognetti, MD
Brett Comer, MD
Michael J. Coulter, MD
Maura Cosetti, MD
Stephen P. Cragle, MD
Brianna Crawley, MD
Roberto Cueva, MD
Shiva Daram, MD
Robert H. Deeb, MD
Christine E. DeMason, MD
Joseph E. Dohar, MD
Laura Dominguez, MD
Matthew D. Ellison, MD
Antoine Eskander, MD
Erynne A. Faucett, MD
Daniel Fink, MD
Valerie A. Flanary, MD
Adam Folbe, MD
Scott Fortune, MD
Eric Gantwerker, MD, MSc, MS
William Gao, MD
Laura R. Garcia-Rodriguez, MD
Lauren Gardiner, MD
Alexandros Georgolios, MD
Daniel I. Gerges, MD
Neil Gildener-Leapman, MD
Christina M. Gillespie, MD
John Goddard, MD
Jason C. Goodwin, MD
Zhen Gooi, MD
Steven L. Goudy, MD
Anne E. Gunter, MD
Nikita Gupta, MD
Edie Hapner, MD
Kyle Hatten, MD
Nadine H. Haykal, MD
Oswaldo A. Henriquez, MD
Laura T. Hetzler, MD
Marc H. Hohman, MD
Jacob Hunter, MD
Inna Husain, MD
Abraham Jacob, MD
David Jang, MD
Gina Jefferson, MD
Anita S. Jeyakumar, MD, MS
Sveta A. Karelsky, MD
Srinivas R. Kaza, MD
Steven T. Kmucha, MD, JD
P. Daniel Knott, MD
Darius Kohan, MD
Maggie Kuhn, MD
Walter Kutz, MD
Devyani Lal, MD
Elton M. Lambert, MD
April M. Landry, MD
Claire M. Lawlor, MD
Stella E. Lee, MD
Jivianne K. Lee, MD
Corinna G. Levine, MD
Meredith Merz Lind, MD
Christopher V. Lisi, MD
Myriam Loyo Li, MD, MCR
G. Nina Lu, MD
Kimberly Luu, MD
Sara MacDowell, PT, DPT
Stephen C. Maturo, MD
Alice Z. Maxfield, MD
Jessica Maxwell, MD
Jason G. May, MD
Susan McCammon, MD
Edward McCoul, MD
Hilary McCrary, MD
Margo M. McKenna Benoit, MD
Kevin E. McLaughlin, MD
Vikas Mehta, MD
Kara D. Meister, MD
Abie Mendelsohn, MD
Alan Micco, MD
Sean M. Miller, MD
Mark Mims, MD
Ashkan Monfared, MD
Wojciech Mydlarz, MD
Mohsen Naraghi, MD
Jacob Pieter Noordzij, MD
Daniel O’Brien, MD
Adrian A. Ong, MD
Michael Orestes, MD
Zara M. Patel, MD
Aru Panwar, MD
Jon-Paul Pepper, MD
Kellous A. Price, MD
Dan Quall, MS, CCC-A
Roy Rajan, MD
Anais Rameau, MD
Sanjeet Rangarajan, MD
Lara K. Reichert, MD, MPH
Scott M. Rickert, MD
Brianne B. Roby, MD
Nicholas Rowan, MD
Amy Rutt, MD
Michael J. Rutter, MD
Mirabelle Sajisevi, MD
Joe Saliba, MD
Nikki Schmitt, MD
Evan Schreyer, MD
Scott J. Schwartz, MD
Matthew S. Sitton, MD
Mark C Spaw, MD
Samuel A. Spear, MD
Maie St. John, MD
Heather Starmer, SLP
Kevin P. Stavrides, MD
Robert N. Strominger, MD
Larissa Sweeny, MD
Abtin Tabaee, MD
Andrew Tassler, MD
Dana M. Thompson, MD, MS, MBA
Brittny Tillman, MD
Betty S. Tsai Do, MD
Dale A. Tylor, MD, MPH
Esther Vivas, MD
Patrick C. Walz, MD
Weitao Wang, MD
Debra G. Weinberger, MD
Michael S. Weinstock, MD
Aileen P. Wertz, MD
Cameron Wick, MD
Elizabeth S. Willingham, MD
Sarah Wise, MD
Francis A. Wolf, MD
Bradford A. Woodworth, MD
William Yao, MD
Mike Yao, MD
Mary Ying, MD
Habib G. Zalzal, MD
George H. Zalzal, MD
Daniel M. Zeitler, MD
David A. Zopf, MD

We gratefully acknowledge Stacy T. Gray, FLEX Curriculum Chair, FLEX Workgroup Chairs, and more than 166 Foundation education experts who have contributed to the success of the second year of FLEX.

FLEX CURRICULUM CHAIR

Stacey T. Gray, MD

FACIAL PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

P. Daniel Knott, MD,��󲹾��

GENERAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY AND SLEEP MEDICINE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Jeffrey Stanley, MD,��󲹾��
Christina Cabrera-Muffly, MD, Chair-elect

HEAD AND NECK SURGERY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Vikas Mehta, MD,��󲹾��

LARYNGOLOGY & BRONCHOESOPHAGOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Paul C. Bryson, MD, Chair

OTOLOGY & NEUROTOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Maura Cosetti, MD,��󲹾��

PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Meredith Merz Lind, MD,��󲹾��

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Lance Manning, MD,��󲹾��
Betty S. Tsai Do, MD, Chair-elect

RHINOLOGY & ALLERGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Stacey T. Gray, MD,��󲹾��
Zara M. Patel, MD, Chair-elect

2021-2022 FLEX FOUNDATION EDUCATION COMMITTEE FACULTY

Nicole L. Aaronson, MD
Yassmeen Abdel-Aty, MD
Marianne Abouyared, MD
Meredith E. Adams, MD
Lacy K. Adkins, MD
Oliver F. Adunka, MD
Syed F. Ahsan, MD
Ahmed Al-Sayed, MBBS
Mursalin M. Anis, MD
Elton Ashe-Lambert, MD
Michael P. Avillion, MD
H. Michael Baddour Jr., MD
Cristina Baldassari, MD
Melynda A. Barnes, MD
Marc L. Bennett, MD
Mathieu Bergeron, MD
Daniel M. Beswick, MD
Arnaud F. Bewley, MD
Kathleen R. Billings, MD
Benjamin Saul Bleier, MD
Nikolas Block-Wheeler, MD
Lauren A. Bohm, MD
Maurits Boon, MD
Chris M. Brook, MD
Seth M. Brown, MD
James K. Byrd, MD
Matthew L. Carlson, MD
Salvatore M. Caruana, MD
Erika Celis-Aguilar, MD
Dylan K. Chan, MD, PhD
Yvonne M. Chan, MD
Daniel R. Clayburgh, MD, PhD
David M. Cognetti, MD
Brett T. Comer, MD
Stephen P. Cragle, MD
Brianna K. Crawley, MD
Roberto A. Cueva, MD
Terry A. Day, MD
Robert H. Deeb, MD
Karuna Dewan, MD
Laura M. Dominguez, MD
Lee D. Eisenberg, MD, MPH
Antoine Eskander, MD
Waleed Ezzat, MD
Erynne A. Faucett, MD
Daniel S. Fink, MD
Valerie A. Flanary, MD
Adam J. Folbe, MD
D. Scott Fortune, MD
Eric A. Gantwerker, MD, MMSc (MedEd)
William Z. Gao, MD
Laura R. Garcia-Rodriguez, MD
Celeste C. Gary, MD
Neil Gildener-Leapman, MD
Christina M. Gillespie, MD
John C. Goddard, MD
Nira A. Goldstein, MD, MPH
Zhen Gooi, MD
Anne Gunter, MD
Niki Gupta, MD
Edie R. Hapner, PhD
Kyle M. Hatten, MD
Oswaldo A. Henriquez, MD
Heather Herrington, MD
Jacob B. Hunter, MD
Colin T. Huntley, MD
Inna A. Husain, MD
Abraham Jacob, MD
David W. Jang, MD
Gina D. Jefferson, MD
Anita S. Jeyakumar, MD
John H. Joseph, MD
David H. Jung, MD, PhD
Sveta A. Karelsky, MD
Margaret A. Kenna, MD, MPH
David Kent, MD
Steven T. Kmucha, MD, JD
Darius Kohan, MD
Nikita V. Kohli, MD
Alan Kominsky, MD
Theda C. Kontis, MD
Maggie A. Kuhn, MD
Devyani M. Lal, MD
April M. Landry, MD
Linda N. Lee, MD
Stella E. Lee, MD
Christopher V. Lisi, MD
Yi-Chun Carol Liu, MD, MS
Phillip S. LoSavio, MD
G. Nina Lu, MD
Prashant S. Malhotra, MD
Benjamin D. Malkin, MD
Alice Z. Maxfield, MD
Jessica Maxwell, MD, MPH
Hilary C. McCrary, MD
Edward D. McCoul, MD
Kara D. Meister, MD
Abie H. Mendelsohn, MD
Alan G. Micco, MD
Mark M. Mims, MD
Ashkan Monfared, MD
Wojciech K. Mydlarz, MD
Mohsen M. Naraghi, MD
Jacob Pieter Noordzij, MD
Daniel C. O’Brien, MD
Michael I. Orestes, MD
Aru Panwar, MD
Andrea M. Park, MD
Kellous A. Price, MD
Patricia L. Purcell, MD, MPH
Sanjeet V. Rangarajan, MD
Lara K. Reichert, MD MPH
Brianne B. Roby, MD
Nicholas R. Rowan, MD
Alexander Rivkin, MD
Michael J. Ruckenstein, MD, MSc
Amy L. Rutt, DO
Mirabelle B. Sajisevi, MD
Joe Saliba, MD, MSc
Jeffrey M. Schafer, MD
Nicole C. Schmitt, MD
Christopher A. Schutt, MD
Rahul Seth, MD
Ava Shamban, MD
Rodrigo C. Silva, MD
Alyssa J. Smith, MD
Ryan J. Soose, MD
Mark C. Spaw, MD
Samuel A. Spear, MD
Todd A. Spock, MD
Maie St. John, MD, PhD
Robert N. Strominger, MD
Larissa Sweeny, MD
Abtin M. Tabaee, MD
Andrew B. Tassler, MD
Brittny N. Tillman, MD
Dale A. Tylor, MD, MPH
Ronald J. Vilela, MD
Esther X. Vivas, MD
Johnathan M. Walsh, MD
Patrick C. Walz, MD
Michael S. Weinstock, MD
Aileen P. Wertz, MD
Cameron C. Wick, MD
Lyndy J. Wilcox, MD
Elizabeth S. Willingham, MD
Andre M. Wineland, MD
Sarah K. Wise, MD
Mike Yao, MD
William C. Yao, MD
Yu-Lan Mary Ying, MD
Daniel M. Zeitler, MD

We gratefully acknowledge Richard V. Smith, MD, past Coordinator for Education, FLEX Workgroup Chairs, and more than 130 Foundation experts have contributed to the successes of this inaugural year.

EDUCATION STEERING COMMITTEE

Jeffrey P. Simons, MD, Chair

FACIAL PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Scott B. Roofe, MD,��󲹾��

GENERAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY AND SLEEP MEDICINE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Jeffrey Stanley, MD,��󲹾��

HEAD AND NECK SURGERY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

David M. Cognetti, MD,��󲹾��

LARYNGOLOGY & BRONCHOESOPHAGOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Thomas L. Carroll, MD,��󲹾��
Paul C. Bryson, MD, Chair-elect

OTOLOGY & NEUROTOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Marc L. Bennett, MD,��󲹾��

PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Meredith Merz Lind, MD,��󲹾��

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Lance Manning, MD,��󲹾��

RHINOLOGY & ALLERGY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Stacey T. Gray, MD,��󲹾��

2020-2021 FLEX FOUNDATION EDUCATION COMMITTEE FACULTY

Marianne Abouyared, MD
Oliver F. Adunka, MD, FACS
Garima Agarwal, MD
Jamie Andrews, MD
Arvind K. Badhey, MD
Cristina Baldassari, MD
Mathieu Bergeron, BPharm, MD
Daniel Beswick, MD
Kathleen R. Billings, MD
Nikolas R. Block-Wheeler, MD, MS
Brian J. Boyce, MD
Joseph P. Bradley, MD
Scott E. Brietzke, MD, MPH
Christopher Brook, MD
Seth M. Brown, MD, MBA
Cristina Cabrera-Muffly, MD
Matthew L. Carlson, MD
Salvatore M. Caruana, MD
Mohamad R. Chaaban, MD
Yvonne Chan, MD, FRCSC, MSc, HBSc
Sujana S. Chandrasekhar, MD
David Chang, MD
Eunice Y. Chen, MD, PhD
Nipun Chhabra, MD
David H. Chi, MD
Daniel R. Clayburgh, MD, PhD
Daniel H. Coelho, MD
Maura Cosetti, MD
Stephen Cragle, MD
Brianna K. Crawley, MD
James J. Daniero, MD, MS
Shiva Daram, MD, MBA
Robert Deeb, MD
Joe DePietro, MD
Ellen S. Deutsch, MD
Karuna Dewan, MD
Joseph E. Dohar, MD, MS
Laura M. Dominguez, MD
Megan Durr, MD
Antoine Eskander, MD, ScM, FRCSC
Waleed H. Ezzat, MD
Erynne A. Faucett, MD
Valerie Flanary, MD
Ramon Franco, MD
Norman R. Friedman, MD, DABSM
Eric A. Gantwerker, MD, MMSc (MedEd)
Celeste Gary, MD
Alexandros Georgolios, MD
Marc J. Gibber, MD
John Paul Giliberto, MD
Christina Gillespie, MD
Jordan Glicksman, MD
Frederick Godley, MD
John C. Goddard, MD
Nira A Goldstein, MD, MPH
Zhen Gooi, MD
Nikita Gupta, MD
Christopher J. Hartnick, MD
Oswaldo A. Henriquez Ajami, MD
Heather C. Herrington, MD
Laura Hetzler, MD
Alexander Hillel, MD
Tsung-yen Hsieh, MD
Jacob B. Hunter, MD
Inna A. Husain, MD
Stacey L. Ishman, MD, MPH
David W. Jang, MD
Gina D. Jefferson, MD
Anita S. Jeyakumar, MD, MS
Nancy Jiang, MD
Christopher M. Johnson, MD
Romaine F. Johnson, MD, MPH
David H. Jung, MD, PhD
Sveta Karelsky, MD
Nikita V. Kohli, MD
Esther Kim, MD
Dennis J. Kitsko, DO
Maggie A. Kuhn, MD
Robbi A. Kupfer, MD
Walter Kutz, MD
Devyani Lal, MD, FARS
Derek J. Lam, MD, MPH
Claire M. Lawlor, MD
Gi Soo Lee, MD, EdM
Stella E. Lee, MD
Robin W. Lindsay, MD
Yi-Chun Carol Liu, MD, MS
Phillip LoSavio, MD
G. Nina Lu, MD
Benjamin D. Malkin, MD
Amy Manning, MD
Deepak Mehta, FRCS, DLO
Vikas Mehta, MD, MPH
Craig Miller, MD
Ron B. Mitchell, MD
Matthew C. Mori, MD
Heather C. Nardone, MD
Matthew O. Old, MD
Michael Orestes, MD
Ashli K. O’Rourke, MD
Kyra Osborne, MD
Loring I. Perry, MD
Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH
Kellous A. Price, MD
Sarah K. Rapoport, MD
Elliot Regenbogen, MD
Lara Reichert, MD, MPH
Nicholas R. Rowan, MD
Sanjeet V. Rangarajan, MD
Amy L. Rutt, DO
Ravi N. Samy, MD, FACS
Mirabelle B. Sajisevi, MD
Maya G. Sardesai, MD, MEd
Nicole C. Schmitt, MD
Christopher A. Schutt, MD
Rahul Seth, MD
Gopi Shah, MD
Sunthosh Sivam, MD
Robert Strominger, MD
Larissa Sweeny, MD
Duane J. Taylor, MD
Lauren W. Tracy, MD
Betty S. Tsai Do
Debra G. Weinberger, MD
Lyndy J. Wilcox, MD
Daniel L. Wohl, MD
Charles R. Woodard, MD
Christina J. Yang, MD
Mike Yao, MD
Linda X. Yin, MD
Daniel M. Zeitler, MD

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