PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS American Head and Neck Society Presidential Address: Head and Neck Surgery in a New Era of Therapeutic Potential

changes.Modern technology has vastly ex-panded our diagnostic and therapeutic ar-mamentarium. With these innovations come many new opportunities and obli-gations. Today, I will speak not so much about the opportunities but about the ob-ligations we have to our patients and to ourselves to maximize the benefits avail-able now and in the future on behalf of our patients. Never before have we been so depen-dent on multidisciplinary collaboration in providing access to the best in head and neck oncologic services. Let me give a couple of frequently encountered ex