Officers

President

Jessyka G. Lighthall, MD, FACS

Chief, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Director, Facial Nerve Disorders Clinic

Medical Director, Esteem Penn State Health Cosmetic Associates

Fellowship Director, Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and Department of Surgery

Penn State College of Medicine

President-Elect

Colin T. Huntley, MD

Associate Professor, Jefferson University, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

Secretary/Treasurer

Andrew A. Mccall, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center

Immediate Past President

David M. Cognetti, MD, FACS

Jefferson University - Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

Past Presidents

The Pennsylvania Academy of Otolaryngology -

Head & Neck Surgery

2021-2023 David M. Cognetti, MD, FACS

2019-2021 Johnathan D McGinn, MD

2017-2019 Ahmed M.S. Soliman, MD
2015-2017    Jeffrey P. Simons, MD, FACS
2013-2015    David Goldenberg, MD, FACS
2011-2013    Jason Newman, MD, FACS

2009-2011    Scott M. Gayner, MD
2007-2009    Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD, FACS
2005-2007    Robert T. Sataloff, MD, FACS
2003-2005    Edmund A. Pribitkin, MD, FACS
2001-2003    Karen A. Rizzo, MD, FACS
1999-2000    J. David Cunningham, MD, FACS
1998-1999    Carl L. Reams, MD
1997-1998    Phillip K. Pellitteri, DO, FACS
1996-1997    Barry E. Hirsch, MD
1995-1996    Alan M. Miller, MD, FACS
1994-1995    Ernest L. McKenna, Jr., MD, FACS
1993-1994    Frank I. Marlowe, MD, FACS
1992-1993    Thomas L. Kennedy, MD, FACS
1991-1992    G. William Jaquiss, MD
1990-1991    Louis D. Lowry, MD, FACS

Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology

(1943 – 1990)

1989 Helen F. Krause, M.D.
1988 Dorothy C. Scott, M.D.
1987 Webb Hersperger, M.D.
1986 Edward A. Jaeger, M.D.
1985 Donald P. Vrabec, M.D.
1984 James L. Curtis, M.D.
1983 George H. Conner, M.D.
1982 George J. Gerneth, M.D.
1981 Donald B. Kamerer, M.D.
1980 Jerome Dersh, M.D.
1979 Eugene B. Rex, M.D.
1978 William C. Frayer, M.D.
1977 Silvio H. DeBlasio, M.D.
1976 Paul A. Cox, M.D.
1975 Louis E. Silcox, M.D.
1974 Robert D. Mulberger, M.D.
1973 James M. Cole, M.D.
1972 C. William Weisser, M.D.
1971 Joseph P. Atkins, M.D.
1970 Robert J. Beitel, Jr., M.D.
1969 H. Ford Clark, M.D.
1968 Harold G. Scheie, M.D.
1967 John T. Dickinson, M.D.
1966 Benjamin F. Souders, M.D.
1965 Merril B. Hayes, M.D.
1964 Glen G. Gibson, M.D.
1963 Raymond E. Jordan, M.D.
1962 Robert E. Shoemaker, M.D.
1961 Norbert E. Alberstadt, M.D.
1961 Benjamin H. Shuster, M.D.
1960 John Knox Covey, M.D.
1959 Paul C. Craig, M.D.
1958 Murray F. McCaslin, M.D.
1957 J. Floyd Buzzard, M.D.
1956 Chevalier L. Jackson, M.D.
1955 William T. Hunt, Jr., M.D.
1954 James H. Delaney, M.D.
1953 Paul McCloskey, M.D.
1952 Samuel T. Buckman, M.D.
1951 Matthew S. Ersner, M.D.
1950 Jay G. Linn, Sr., M.D.
1949 Daniel S. DeStio, M.D.
1948 James J. Monahan, M.D.
1947 Gilbert L. Daily, M.D.
1946 Thomas F. Furlong, Jr., M.D.
1945 Lewis T. Buckman, M.D.
1944 Lewis T. Buckman, M.D.
1943 James E. Landis, M.D.