Available Foundation Awards

The award was for :
1. Members of our college who made significant contributions to our college, either financially or by advancing it for the benefit of its members.
2. This is to be a special award presented to members who have gone above and beyond the normal call of duty. It was/is not meant to be just another award after SBOG.
3. As far as qualifications, the recipient must be nominated to the awards committee for vetting. The recipient must be able to demonstrate he/she did more than just act as a president, or member of a committee. They advanced our college financially, or politically. They made things better for all D.O.'s in our organization or even profession.

Examples: Dr. Dubin, while executive director of the AOCOO HNS started the foundation and helped make it financially independent, so that it can help all the members, and future members of our college.

Perhaps a member of our college becomes president of the AOA, or a senator or representative of congress. While in that role they acted to advance our college or D.O.'s in the national eye.

AOCOO-HNS’s Research Paper Competition is held during the Annual Clinical Assembly. Residents and students entering this competition will have their papers evaluated by a nationwide panel of physician-researchers who will select up to three papers per specialty which will be recognized for this award.

AOCOO-HNS reserves the right to withhold these annual awards if the panel of judges deems the quality of the papers insufficient or lacking in substance significant enough to grant the award.

Judges will evaluate Research Papers, identifying the top three papers per specialty submitted in the academic year. However, it should be noted that AOCOO-HNS reserves the right to withhold or combine any award should it deem that sufficient suitable research has not been submitted that warrant the presentation of this prize. If awarded, the top three monetary awards will amount to a total of $8000. Typically, the first place receives $2000, the second place receives $1500, and the third place receives $500 (per specialty).