Member of the Hall of Fame of the Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Education
B.A., Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 1974
M.D., University of Tennessee School of Medicine, 1976
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Residency, Baylor College of Medicine, 1985
Head and Neck Surgery Fellowship, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1986
Academic Positions
Hubert L. and Oliver Stringer Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research, and Chair, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2003
Professor, Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-2003
Awards and Service
President, American Head and Neck Society, 2007
President, American Radium Society, 2006
President, Society of University Otolaryngologists-Head and Neck Surgeons, 2005
Presidential Citation, American Head and Neck Society, 2000
Louis Duhring Outstanding Clinical Specialist Award, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 2000
Distinguished Service Award, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2000
Fellow, Triological Society, 1996
Fellow, American Laryngological Association, 1996
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 1976
Clinical and Research Interests: Multimodality therapy for organ preservation in head and neck cancer patients, mechanisms of tumor progression in non-melanoma skin cancer of the head and neck, novel biologic therapy for non-melanoma skin cancer of the head and neck
