Mendik Foundation Professor of Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY, United States
Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania obtaining his Medical Degree in 2000 and his PhD in Biophysics in 2002. He completed an internship in General Surgery in 2003 and residency training in Otolaryngology in 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He completed fellowship training in Head and Neck Surgery in 2008 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
He currently serves as the Mendik Foundation Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery at NYU Langone Health and NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He was previously Director of Robotic Surgery at UPMC, and co-director of the Head & Neck Cancer Program at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. He leads a federally funded laboratory studying the mechanisms by which head and neck cancers resist therapies, seeing to develop innovative strategies to optimize treatment outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer.
He has authored numerous research publications and book chapters and has delivered lecturers on the subject of head and neck cancer surgery both nationally and internationally.
A Fulbright scholar, his research interests include minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery of the head and neck, tumors of the thyroid and parathyroid glands and molecular oncology of head and neck cancer. He is a leader in his field and has proctored Transoral Robotic Surgery cases at numerous medical educational facilities throughout the United States and Europe.
Remote Access for Oncologic Radical and Aesthetic Surgery in Neck Procedures
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT
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