William Ryan, M.D.
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Medical School : Stanford
Undergraduate: Wesleyan
williamryan75@gmail.com
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PUBLICATIONS
1) Ryan WR, Fee WE Jr.  Long term great auricular nerve morbidity after sacrifice during parotidectomy.  Laryngoscope.  Accepted for publication.

2) Ryan WR, Most SP.  A prospective evaluation of the efficacy of topical adhesive pads for the reduction of facial rhytids.  Archives of Facial Plastics Surgery.   Accepted for publication.

3) Ryan WR, Fee WE.  Great auricular nerve morbidity after nerve sacrifice during parotidectomy. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006 Jun; 132 (6) :642-9.

4) Ryan WR, Fee WE, Le QL, Pinto HA.  Positron-emission tomography for surveillance of head and neck cancer.  Laryngoscope. 2005 Apr;115(4):645-50.

5) Ryan WR, Allan RN, Yamamoto T, Keighley MRB.  Crohn’s Disease Patients Who Quit Smoking Have a Reduced Risk of Reoperation for Recurrence.  American Journal of Surgery.  2004.  February; 187 (2): 219-225.

6) Ryan WR, Ley C, Allan RN, Keighley MRB.  Patients with Crohn’s Disease Are Unaware of the Risks that Smoking Has on Their Disease.  Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.  2003; 7: 1-6.

7) Quigley TM, Ryan WR, Morgan S.  Patient Satisfaction after Carotid Endarterectomy Using a Selective Policy of Local Anesthesia.  American Journal of Surgery.  2000 May; 179 (5): 382-5.
               
8) Fisher RL, Ryan WR, Dugdale TW, Zimmerman GA.  Arthroscopic Ankle Fusion.  Connecticut Medicine.  1997 Oct; 61 (10):  643-

MANUSCRIPT SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION
1) Ryan WR, Hwang PH.  The safety and tolerance of a self-preserving nasal saline spray: a randomized controlled trial. 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT
1) Ryan WR, Ramachandra T, Hwang PH.  The correlation between symptoms, nasal endoscopy, and in-office computer tomography for chronic rhinosinusitis in the first postoperative year.  ($15,000 Xoran Grant Recipient) 

ORAL RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
1) Ryan WR, Hwang PH.  “The safety and tolerance of a self-preserving nasal saline spray: a randomized controlled trial” at the 2009 Western Section of the Triological Society in Las Vegas, NV, January 2009.

2) Ryan, WR, Fee WE.  “Great auricular nerve morbidity after nerve sacrifice during parotidectomy” at the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting in Boca Raton, FL, May 2005.

3) Ryan WR, Fee WE.  “Outcomes and Patient Perspectives of Facial Nerve Sacrifice and Reconstruction”, at the 59th meeting of the New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in association with the 2nd Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, November, 2004. 

4) Ryan WR, Fee We, Le QL, Pinto HA.  “Positron Emission Tomography for Surveillance of Head and Neck Cancer” at the 6th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer, in Washington, DC, August 2004.  Best Paper by a Medical Student Award.

5) Ryan WR, Allan RN, Yamamoto T, Keighley MRB.  “Crohn’s Disease Patients Who Quit Smoking Have a Reduced Risk of Reoperation for Recurrence” at the American Association of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, San Diego, CA, June 2001.

6) Quigley TM, Ryan WR, Morgan S. “Patient Satisfaction after Carotid Endarterectomy Using a Selective Policy of Local Anesthesia” at the Seattle Surgical Society, Seattle, WA, January 1998. 

POSTER RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
1) Ryan WR, Allan RN, Yamamoto T, Keighley MRB.  “Crohn’s Disease Patients Who Quit Smoking Have a Reduced Risk of Reoperation for Recurrence” at the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Harrogate, England, June 2001. 

2) Ryan WR, Ley C, Allan RN, Keighley MRB.  “Patients with Crohn’s Disease Are Unaware of the Risks that Smoking Has on Their Disease at the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Harrogate, England, June 2001. 

AWARDS
Best Paper by a Medical Student Award at the 6th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer, in Washington, DC, August 2004 . __________________________