41st Annual Ogura Lectureship
The 2023 Ogura Lectureship and Resident Research Day will be held Friday, June 23.

Our guest speaker is Tessa Hadlock, MD, Fazzalari-Grousbeck Endowed Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Facial Nerve Center at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. She is a 1990 graduate of Bowdoin College and a 1994 MD graduate of the joint Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Institute of Technology HST program. She obtained general surgery internship training at the University of Chicago in 1994/1995, followed by Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery training at Harvard from 1995-2001, during which she also pursued a two year research fellowship in tissue engineering at Children’s Hospital in Boston. She has subspecialty training in microvascular head and neck reconstruction, and since 2002, has been on staff at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary, where she directs the Facial Nerve Center. As a clinician-scientist, she is the author of over 180 original articles. She has served as principal investigator for multiple NIH-funded R01 grants. Her primary interest is in comprehensive management of the paralyzed face.
Hadlock will give two presentations:
- Facial Reanimation: past, present, and future
- Responsible Innovation in Otolaryngology
Location: Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC), Seminar Room B, on the Washington University medical school campus. A virtual attendance option (Zoom) will also be available.
Click here to register for this event in person, or to request the Zoom link.
Please contact Jana Richardson for more information.
About the Ogura Lectureship

Joseph H. Ogura, MD, was a member of the Washington University School of Medicine from 1948 to 1982. He served as Lindburg Professor and Head of the Department of Otolaryngology and Otolaryngologist-in-Chief. He was a member of 30 professional societies and held presidencies in the American Society of Head & Neck Surgery, the American Laryngeal Society and the Triological Society.
The endowment for the Ogura Lectureship was established in 1982 in his honor. Support for for the lectureship is raised through his grateful patients, friends, colleagues and graduates.
In 1986, the Resident Research Day was added to this program in appreciation of these outstanding men and women. The work presented by residents represents their research experience, a minimum of three-six months research for all residents or a maximum of two and one half years for those in our Advanced Physician Scholars Program.
Places to Stay
The following hotels are within walking distance of the medical school campus:
DoubleTree by Hilton St. Louis Forest Park
Close by, but not walking distance:
Drury Inn & Suites near Forest Park
Past Ogura Lecturers
2022 – Amber Luong, MD, PhD 2021 – Ellis Arjmand, MD, PhD, MMM 2019 – Eric M. Genden, MD, MHA 2018 – Michael M. E. Johns, MD 2017 – Richard L. Carrau, MD, FACS 2016 – Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH 2015 – Richard A. Chole, MD, PhD 2014 – Bevan Yueh, MD, MPH 2013 – Carol R. Bradford, MD 2012 – Jonas T. Johnson, MD 2011 – Robin T. Cotton, MD, FRCSC 2010 – Jeffrey N. Myers, MD, PhD 2009 – Michael G. Stewart, MD 2008 – Patrick J. Gullane, MB, FRCSC 2007 – Gregory T. Wolf, MD 2006 – Robert W. Bastian, MD 2005- Randal S. Weber, MD 2004 – Gerald B. Healy, MD 2003 – Jennifer Rubin Grandis, MD 2002 – Wolfgang Steiner, MD | 2000 – Marshall Strome, MD, MS 1999 – Jesus Medina, MD, FACS 1998 – K. Thomas Robbins, MD 1997 – Gordon B. Snow, MD 1996 – Willard E. Fee, Jr, MD 1995 – Roger L. Crumley, MD 1994 – John A. Kirchner, MD 1993 – David E. Schuller, MD 1992 – Charles J. Krause, MD 1991 – H. Bryan Neel III, MD, PhD 1990 – Bryon J. Bailey, MD 1989 – Charles W. Cummings, MD 1988 – Patrick J. Doyle, MD 1987 – Hugh F. Biller, MD 1986 – Roger Boles, MD 1985 – Eugene N. Myers, MD 1984 – Paul H. Ward, MD 1983 – John J. Conley, MD 1982 – Max L. Som, MD |