Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Andrew Lane, M.D. is the director of the Division of Rhinology, Sinus & Skull Base Surgery of the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. After completion of his Otolaryngology residency at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Lane performed an olfactory research fellowship at the U Maryland and an advanced clinical fellowship in sinus surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lane joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2001 and became an clinician-scientist, with research interests in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis and the effects of inflammation on olfactory function. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a past recipient of the numerous research awards and grants from the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation and the American Rhinologic Society. His research accomplishments have been recognized by a Passano Foundation Clinician Scientist Award and the Edmund Prince Fowler Award for his Triological Society thesis. His research is supported by NIH grants from the NIDCD and the NIAID. At the same time, Dr. Lane maintains a busy clinical rhinology practice with a focus in complex and revision sinus and anterior skull base surgery. He co-directs the annual Johns Hopkins endoscopic sinus surgery dissection course and is a frequent lecturer at regional and national meetings. Dr. Lane is a former chair of the Rhinology and Paranasal Sinus Committee of the AAO-HNSF, and he served on the Academy’s CORE study section for several years. A former member of the ARS board of directors, Dr. Lane has also chaired the society’s By-Laws Committee and the Research Grants committee, while serving on the editorial board of IFAR. He is Editor-and-Chief of Current Otorhinolaryngology Reports.