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Clinical Science Education Award

Georgia Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

Past President

Dean’s Physician Leadership Academy

Magnolia Conference, Magnolia Conference, 2012

1st Place, Resident Research Presentation

Medical University of South Carolina, 2007

Henry Tracy Ivy Award

American Head and Neck Society, Board Member, Mucosal Section

American Head and Neck Society, Board Member, Skull Base Section

North American Skull Base Society

Preoperative Stellate Ganglion Block for Perioperative Pain in Lateralized Head and Neck Cancer: Preliminary Results

Conversion to Chronic Invasive Fungal Sinusitis From Allergic Fungal Sinusitis in Immunocompetence

Predictors of clinical outcome after tracheotomy in critically ill obese patients

Byrd is a highly-acclaimed expert in head and neck cancers whose research interests include functional outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical treatment of head and neck cancer, cost-effectiveness analysis and quality of life in head and neck cancer. 

He attended the University of South Carolina for his undergraduate education, where he graduated with honors. He also attended the Medical University of South Carolina where he earned his medical degree and completed his residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.  

Additionally, he completed a two-year fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in Head and Neck Oncology and Skull Base Surgery, and he holds a certification from the American Board of Otolaryngology.

Transoral Laser Microsurgery

Skull Base Surgery

Head and Neck Surgery

Quality of life in head and neck cancer

Otolaryngology

Transoral Robotic Surgery

Anterior Skull Base Surgery

Faculty Profile

Cause For The Cure: Head and Neck Cancer Awareness

Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Professor in the Dept. of Otolaryngology & Dept. of Neurosurgery

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