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David Howard Prize
The David Howard Prize is awarded by the BLA each year, and is granted at the BLA's Cutting Edge Laryngology and Annual conferences.
Prize winners include:
2023 - The inaugural joint meeting between BLA/UEP, Thursday, 14 September 2023, Royal Society of Medicine
BEST ORAL PRESENTATION
Presentation entitled "Speech & Language Therapy led 2 Week Wait ENT Clinic: Pilot clinic findings from Sunderland"
Mandeep Bhabra , South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Trust
BEST POSTER PRESENTATION - JOINT WINNERS
Poster entitled "Is translaryngeal ultrasound a useful tool in the assessment of inducible laryngeal obstruction? Heathy volunteer data from the ILOTUS: A two-stage exploratory feasibility study"
Claire Slinger, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
Poster entitled "A Systematic Review of Speech and Language Therapy Interventions for Presbyphonia"
Brian Saccente-Kennedy, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2022 - Cutting Edge Laryngology Virtual Conference, Thursday 22 and Friday 23 September 2022
BEST ORAL PRESENTATION
Presentation entitled "Machine Learning-based Voice Analysis for the screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnoe"
Carlo Robotti, Department of Clinical-Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
BEST POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster entitled “The Phonetically Specific Oral Cavity Detection by Applying Nasal electrolarynx-Programmed High Frequency Signal”
Shu Wei Tsai, MD, Otolaryngology , National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
2021
BEST ORAL PRESENTATION
Presentation entitled “Incidence, diagnosis and natural history of vocal fold dysfunction after congenital cardiac surgery: a prospective implementation study."
Gareth Lloyd, Dept of ORL, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
BEST POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster entitled "Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction: Safety and Efficacy of Botox injections under EMG control in an outpatient setting"
Eleanor Crossley, ENT registrar, St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2019
Cutting Edge Laryngology 2019, 25-27 September 2019, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Best Oral Presentation
"Tissue engineering the upper airway mucosal lining"
Nick Hamilton, University College London
Best Poster Presentation
"A high-fidelity, fully imersive airway fire simulation for ENT Trainees"
Ciaran Walsh, University Hospital Aintree
2018
Best Oral Presentation
BLA Short Paper Sessions, European Laryngological Society Congress 2018, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
"Laryngeal distribution of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in a previously untreated cohort"
Gregory Dion, New York University, USA
2017
Best Oral Presentation:
A 6 year retrospective review of 97 adolescent patients seen in a tertiary referral voice clinic
Anya Selwyn, University Hospital, Lewisham
Best Poster Presentation:
Transnasal oesophagoscopy: diagnostic and management experience of in 490 patients with various upper aerodigestive complaints
Shaden Al Riyami, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle
2016
Best Oral Presentation:
Chronic neurostimulation for treatment of age related laryngeal muscular atrophy
Markus Gugatschka, Medical University Graz, Austria
Best Poster:
Perioperative complications of Type II Thyroplasty
Kenji Mizoguchi, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
2015
Best Oral Presentation: Samantha Holmes
Best Poster Presentation: Jason Powell
2014
Best Oral Presentation in Laryngology: Jonathan Fishman
Best Oral Presentation in Speech and Language: Jennifer Craig
2013
Best Poster Presentation: Chaitanya Gadepalli
Best Oral Presentation: Amanda Domer
2012
Best Poster Presentation: Nupur Nerurkar
Best Oral Presentation: Tanya Meyer
2011
Best Poster Presentation: Raul Cetto
Best Oral Presentation: Sally Kamal