Course Directors

Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology

Seungwon Kim, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology

Heath D. Skinner, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Dan P. Zandberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Course Presenters
Local Faculty
Mamta Bhatnagar, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics

Simion I. Chiosea, MD
Professor of Pathology

David Anthony (Andy) Clump, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology

Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Surgical Oncology Co-leader, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Head and Neck Cancer Program

Moon J. Fenton, MD, PhD
Medical Oncologist/Hematologist

Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Cancer Research, Health Sciences
Hillman Professor of Oncology
Professor of Otolaryngology, of Immunology, and of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine
Director, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Seungwon Kim, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Director, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology

Mark Kubik, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and Plastic Surgery

Marci Nilsen, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor of Acute and Tertiary Care, School of Nursing
Co-director, UPMC Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship Clinic

Heath D. Skinner, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Basic/Translational Research Co-leader, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Head and Neck Cancer Program

Mario Solari, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and Plastic Surgery

Shaum Sridharan, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and Plastic Surgery

Katie Traylor, DO
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Director of Head and Neck Imaging

Eric Wang, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Neurological Surgery, and Ophthalmology
Director of Education, UPMC Center for Cranial Base Surgery

Dan P. Zandberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Head and Neck and Thyroid Cancer Disease Sections, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Medical Oncology Co-Leader, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Head and Neck Cancer Program

Local faculty members are affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and/or UPMC and reside in the Pittsburgh, PA. area unless otherwise identified.

Guest Faculty
Bhisham Chera, MD
Associate Professor
Associate Chair of Clinical Operations and Improvement
Director of Patient Safety and Quality
UNC School of Medicine

Faculty Disclosure:
All individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity including members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, and/or content reviewers have disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients.

The following relevant financial relationships were disclosed:
•    Bhisham Chera, MD Stockholder: Naveris
•    Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD Consultant: Activ Surgical
•    Robert Ferris, MD, PhD Advisory Board: Achilles Therapeutics, Bristol-Myers Squibb, EMD Serono, Instil Bio, Inc., Life science Dynamics Limited, MacroGenics, Inc., Merck, Numab Therapeutics AG, OncoCyte Corporation, Pfizer, Rakuten Medical, Inc., Seagen, Inc.
Consultant: Abbvie, Aduro Biotech, Inc., Bicara Therapeutics, Inc., DermTech, Eli Lilly, Everest Clinical Research Corporation, F. Hoffman-La Roche, Ltd, Genocea Biosciences, Inc., Janssen, Kowa Research Institute, Inc., Mirati therapeutics, Inc., Nanobiotix, Novasenta, Pfizer, Sanofi, Zymeworks, Inc.
Grant/Research Support: Abbvie, Arcutis, Astra-Zeneca/Medimmune, BI, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Castle Biosciences, Dermavant, Eli Lilly, Galderma, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Novasenta, Regeneron, Tesaro
Stockholder: Novasenta 
•    Mario G. Solari, MD Consultant: Baxter
•    Dan P. Zandberg, MD Grant/Research Support: Prelude Therapeutics, Aethlon, BICARA, Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly, Glasko Smith Kline, Aduro, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck
Consultant: Macrogenics, Blueprint Medicines

No other planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.