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<\/h3>\nThis year\u2019s YPS Model Mentor awardee is Philomena M. Behar, MD,<\/b> who has been an exemplary mentor for the residents in the Department of Otolaryngology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly referred to as the University at Buffalo (UB). She excels at mentoring residents and students on how to design and implement clinical research projects. Her mentees have won the annual UB Otolaryngology Resident Research Award in 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019, and her commitment to the education and development of future otolaryngologists is commendable.<\/p>\n
Dr. Behar has enjoyed training otolaryngology residents and fellows as a clinical associate professor of otolaryngology at UB for more than 25 years. The UB otolaryngology residents chose Dr. Behar as Clinical Instructor of the Year in 2019 and 2016. She is also actively involved in training and mentoring UB undergraduate and medical students as well as physician assistant and nurse practitioner students from Daemen University in Amherst and D’Youville University in Buffalo, both in New York.<\/p>\n
Dr. Behar has also been the principal investigator for multiple resident research projects and publications, of which many have been published in Otolaryngology\u2013Head and <\/i>Neck Surgery<\/i>, the official peer-reviewed journal of the AAO-HNSF. She has acknowledged the support and inspiration of her own mentors, N. Wendell Todd, MD, MPH, <\/b>the late Linda S. Brodsky, MD,<\/b> as well as her late husband, Jerry Behar. She started her pediatric otolaryngology career in Memphis, Tennessee, at Le Bonheur Children\u2019s Hospital and has been in in solo private practice at Pediatric ENT Associates in Buffalo since 2001.<\/p>\n
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