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Poliquin Resident Research Competition 2014

We are pleased to present the collection of papers that comprised the Poliquin Resident Research Competition 2014 that was held at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery in Ottawa, Ontario. This competition is a highlight of the Annual Meeting and showcases some of the brightest and most innovative work that our trainees and their training programs have to offer. These projects were all presented at the meeting and the associated manuscripts have undergone rigorous peer review and been deemed worthy of publication in Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.

Any resident currently in a Canadian Otolaryngology-HNS training program is eligible to enter. The competition recognizes, in memoriam, Dr. Jacques Poliquin, who was a prominent otolaryngologist, researcher, and educator who fostered this competition in its formative years.

Publication charges for this collection were funded by Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. All articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer-review process.

View all collections in Journal of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery.

  1. To determine if rigid adherence (where medically appropriate) to an algorithm/checklist-based patient care pathway can reduce the duration of hospitalization and complication rates in patients undergoing head ...

    Authors: Daniel A. O’Connell, Brittany Barber, Max F. Klein, Jeff Soparlo, Hani Al-Marzouki, Jeffrey R. Harris and Hadi Seikaly
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:45
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  2. Cochlear implantation has become a mainstream treatment option for patients with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. During cochlear implant, there are key surgical steps which are influenced by ana...

    Authors: Edward Park, Hosam Amoodi, Jafri Kuthubutheen, Joseph M. Chen, Julian M. Nedzelski and Vincent Y. W. Lin
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:20
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  3. Since the first facial allograft transplantation was performed, several institutions have performed the procedure with the main objectives being restoration of the aesthetic appearance and expressive function ...

    Authors: Adrian I. Mendez, Hadi Seikaly, Vincent Biron, Lin-fu Zhu and David W. J. Côté
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:19
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  4. Detection of olfactory dysfunction is important for fire and food safety. Clinical tests of olfaction have been developed for adults but their use in children has been limited because they were felt to be unre...

    Authors: Sarah C Hugh, Jennifer Siu, Thomas Hummel, Vito Forte, Paolo Campisi, Blake C Papsin and Evan J Propst
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:10
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  5. The management of patients with advanced stages of head and neck cancer requires a multidisciplinary and multimodality treatment approach which includes a combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. T...

    Authors: Timothy Cooper, Vincent L Biron, David Fast, Raymond Tam, Thomas Carey, Maya Shmulevitz and Hadi Seikaly
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:8
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  6. Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) is the most common head and neck cancer, affecting approximately 2000 Canadians yearly. Analysis of Canadian Cancer Registry data has shown that the incidence of ora...

    Authors: Bree Erickson, Vincent L Biron, Han Zhang, Hadi Seikaly and David WJ Côté
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:4
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  7. The primary objective of this study is to describe variations in incidence rates, resection rates, and types of surgical ablations performed on patients diagnosed with major salivary gland cancers in Ontario.

    Authors: Antoine Eskander, Jonathan Irish, Jeremy Freeman, Patrick Gullane, Ralph Gilbert, Patti A Groome, Stephen F Hall, David R Urbach and David P Goldstein
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:50
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  8. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is the standard of care for the diagnostic work-up of thyroid nodules but despite its proven utility, the non-diagnostic rate for thyroid FNA ranges from 6-36%. A non-diagnostic FN...

    Authors: Andre Isaac, Caroline C Jeffery, Hadi Seikaly, Hani Al-Marzouki, Jeffrey R Harris and Daniel A O’Connell
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:48
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  9. Health care costs in Canada continue to rise. As a result of this relentless increase in healthcare spending, ways to increase efficiency and decrease cost are constantly being sought. Surgical treatment is th...

    Authors: Christopher J Chin, Leigh J Sowerby, Ava John-Baptiste and Brian W Rotenberg
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:46
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  11. Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is a technically challenging procedure, associated with a significant risk of complications. Virtual reality simulation has demonstrated benefit in many disciplines as an importa...

    Authors: Rickul Varshney, Saul Frenkiel, Lily HP Nguyen, Meredith Young, Rolando Del Maestro, Anthony Zeitouni, Elias Saad, W Robert J Funnell and Marc A Tewfik
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:40
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  12. To measure changes in air quality during surgery.

    Authors: Matthew D Brace, Elizabeth Stevens, S Mark Taylor, Sarah Butt, Zhennan Sun, Licai Hu, Megan Borden, Neeraj Khanna, James Kuchta, Jonathan Trites, Robert Hart and Mark D Gibson
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:39
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  13. Metabolic tumour volume (MTV) obtained from pre-treatment 18 F-fluorodeoxydeglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography (PET-CT) has been validated as an independent predictive factor of outcome...

    Authors: Han Zhang, Hadi Seikaly, Jonathan T Abele, Dean T Jeffery, Jeffrey R Harris and Daniel A O’Connell
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:33
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  14. Virtual surgery may improve learning and provides an opportunity for pre-operative surgical rehearsal. We describe a novel haptic temporal bone simulator specifically developed for multicore processing and imp...

    Authors: Dana Wong, Bertram Unger, Jay Kraut, Justyn Pisa, Charlotte Rhodes and Jordan B Hochman
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:31
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