Adam M. Zanation, MD

Assistant Professor

Specialty:

Skull base tumors, sinonasal tumors, CSF rhinorrhea, minimally invasive head and neck tumor surgery, parotid tumors, head and neck sarcomas, rhinology, sinus sugery.

Education:

• MD: University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 2002
• Internship: Dept. of General Surgery, UNC School of Medicine, 2002-2003
• Residency: Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC School of Medicine, 2003-2007
• Fellowship: Skull Base Oncology Program, Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2007-2008

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor: Division of Rhinology, Allergy, and Sinus Surgery; Division of Head and Neck Oncology; Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery; UNC School of Medicine; 2008-present

• Clinical Instructor: Skull Base Oncology, Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2007-2008

Recent Honors:

• 2007 UNC House Officer of the Year Award (Given to 6 out of 840 residents for outstanding patient care), May 2007
• 2007ANHS/AAO Young Investigator Award. $20,000 grant support. AHNS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2007. Grant Mentors – Adam Zanation, MD and Carol Shores, MD, PhD
• 2007 James Harrell Resident Research Award at the 2007 Southern Section Meeting, Marco Island, Fl, February 2007
• 2006 2nd Place Resident Research Award at the 2006 Southern Section Meeting, Naples, Fl, January 2006
• 2006 UNC Temporal Bone Dissection Award, July 2006
• 2005 Lloyd Storrs Resident Research Award at the 2005 Southern Section Meeting, Miami, Fl, January 2005
• 2004 First Place Resident Research Award at American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting, New York, NY Sept 2004
• Kaiser Permanente “Intern of the Year” Award – August 2003, Awarded to one surgical intern per year annually at UNC Hospitals.
• Isaar Hall Manning Award – Awarded July 2002, One award given annually by the UNC School of Medicine for outstanding scholarship, character, leadership, initiative, and original investigative work.

Recent Publications:

• Zanation AM, Carrau RL, Snyderman CH, Prevedello D, Gardner P, Kassam AB. Prospective Evaluation of 50 Nasoseptal Flaps for Endoscopic Anterior Skull Base Reconstruction. Accepted to American Journal of Rhinology, July 2008

• Zanation AM, Carrau RL, Snyderman CH, Prevedello D, Gardner P, Kassam AB. Seeing the Light: Endoscopic Endonasal Transorbital Tumor Surgery. Accepted to American Journal of Rhinology, July 2008

• Zanation AM, Carrau RL, Snyderman CH, Prevedello D, Gardner P, Kassam AB. Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Pericranial Flap: A New Method for Endonasal Skull Base Reconstruction. Accepted to Laryngoscope, July 2008

• Zanation AM, Carrau RL, Snyderman CH, Prevedello D, Gardner P, Kassam AB. Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Petrous Apex Lesions. Accepted to Laryngoscope, July 2008

• Zanation AM, Casiano R, Carrau RL, Snyderman CH, Kassam AB, Prevedello D, Gardner P, Mintz A. Endoscopic Anterior Craniofacial Resection for Esthesioneuroblastoma, accepted to Progress in Neurological Surgery, October 2007

• Zanation AM, Carrau RL, Snyderman CH, Kassam AB, Prevedello D, Gardner P, Mintz A. Endoscopic Reconstruction of the Anterior Cranial Base, accepted to Progress in Neurological Surgery, October 2007

• PC Bryson, MR Patel, CF Shores, CF Hart, L Thorne, ME Couch, A Farag, AM Zanation. Immunohistochemical Distinction of Follicular Adenoma versus Follicar Thyroid Carcinoma. Archives of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. 2008 Jun; 134 (6): 581-6.

• Snyderman CH, Carrau RL, Kassam AB, Zanation AM, Prevedello D, Gardner P, Mintz A. Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery: Principles of Endonasal Oncological Surgery. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2008 Jun 15; 97(8): 658-64.

• George J, Cannon T, Lai V, Richey L, Zanation A, Neil Hayes D, Shores C, Guttridge D, Couch M. Cancer cachexia syndrome in head and neck cancer patients: Part II. Pathophysiology. Head Neck. 2007 May;29(5):497-507.

• Couch M, Lai V, Cannon T, Guttridge D, Zanation A, George J, Hayes DN, Zeisel S, Shores C. Cancer cachexia syndrome in head and neck cancer patients: part I. Diagnosis, impact on quality of life and survival, and treatment. Head Neck. 2007 Apr;29(4):401-11.

• Zanation AM and Senior BS. Transnasal Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery (Chapter). Rhinologic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques. Publisher: Springer (April, 2007)

• Richey LM, Olshan AF, George J, Shores CG, Zanation AM, Cannon T, Weissler MC. Incidence and survival rates for young blacks with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the United States. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006 Oct;132(10):1035-40.

• Chung CH, Parker JS, Ely K, Carter J, Yi Y, Murphy BA, Ang KK, El-Naggar AK, Zanation AM, Cmelak AJ, Levy S, Slebos RJ, Yarbrough WG. Gene Expression Profiles Identify Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition and Activation of Nuclear Factor-{kappa}B Signaling as Characteristics of a High-risk Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2006 Aug 15;66(16):8210-8218

• Cannon T, Zanation AM, Lai V, Weissler MC. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in young patients: a systematic review of racial demographics. Laryngoscope. 2006 Jun;116(6):1021-6.

• Moss JR, Zanation AM, Shores CG. ACE Inhibitor Associated Recurrent Intermittent Parotid Gland Swelling. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005 Dec;133(6):992-4.

• Zanation AM and Senior BA. The Relationship between Extraesophageal Reflux (EER) and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Sleep Medicine Reviews. 2005 July.

• Zanation AM, Sutton DK, Couch ME, Weissler MC, Shockley WW, Shores CG. Utilization, Accuracy, and Implications for Patient Management of [18F]-2-Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission/Computerized Tomography (PET/CT) for Head and Neck Tumors. Laryngoscope. 2005 June; 115(6).

• Zanation AM, Ebert CS Jr, Coffey CS, Dubin MG, Rose AS. Precursor B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma presenting as an isolated external ear swelling in a two-year-old child. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 2005 May;69(5):695-9.