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Associate Professor; Associate Vice Chair DEI
Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
Dr. Trinitia Y. Cannon currently works as an Associate Professor in the department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the Duke University Health System and for the Duke Cancer Institute. She serves as the Director for Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at Duke Raleigh Hospital. She is the Chief of the Head and Neck Division and serves as the department’s Associate Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She serves on several national committees and as a peer-reviewer for several journals. In addition, she is a Senior examiner with the American Board of Otolaryngology and has been appointed to the Advanced Training Council for the American Head and Neck Society.
Dr. Cannon is a native of Warren, Ohio. She worked as a Registered Nurse in Syracuse, NY. She received her undergraduate degree from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY. She attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, NY where she was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society. She completed a 7-year research residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. During the time she studied and developed a mouse model to study Cancer Cachexia. This was followed by a fellowship in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina. She has honored with many awards, but she is most proud of her induction into the African American Hall of Fame awarded by her home county in Warren Ohio, her induction into the Warren High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame, and her Teaching award given by the residents. She has a son who served in the Navy and he has gifted her with a grandson.