The Pennsylvania Academy of
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
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
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President-Elect
Colin T. Huntley, MD
Associate Professor, Jefferson University, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
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Secretary/Treasurer
Pamela C. Roehm, MD, PhD
St. Luke’s University Health Network, Lehigh Valley, PA
Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
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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.
