Trevor G. Hackman, MD, FACS

Professor and Division Chief Surgical Oncology, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Trevor Hackman is the Nathaniel & Sheila Harris Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair Inpatient Operations and Quality Improvement for the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck SurgeryProfessor at the University of North Carolina, and serves as Division Chief of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Director of the Head & Neck Fellowship and Director Otolaryngology Transoral Surgery Program.

Dr. Hackman completed his undergraduate training at Davidson College, before entering medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed an residency at the University of Pittsburgh, and then head and neck fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, where he trained in transoral laser microsurgery and microvascular reconstruction. After fellowship, he joined faculty at UNC. During his time on faculty, Dr Hackman established the UNC HN microvascular program, the UNC transoral program, the UNC HN fellowship and a leading center for office based salivary endoscopy.

A fellowship-trained transoral head and neck surgeon, Dr. Hackman specializes in minimally invasive surgeries, TORS, TLM and salivary endoscopy with an active interest in neoadjuvant surgery, who has lead multiple clinical trials in the field of neoadjuvant / risk adaptive therapy for head and neck cancer. He also has clinical and research interests in head & neck, microvascular surgery, sialendoscopy, endocrine surgery, sleep surgery (including sleep endoscopy, robotic sleep apnea surgery, hypoglossal nerve stimulation). He has interests and research projects in QOL outcomes, QI research, simulation training in robotic surgery and his clinical trial research focuses on induction therapy.

He is an active leader within his institution and the AHNS, serving as chair of a physician excellence committee at UNC, member the AHNS reconstructive, ethics and CDMS committee, as well as a member of the executive committee for the salivary section of AHNS.

Presentation(s):

• Life in the Trenches: Managing Difficult Patients and Families

  Tuesday, October 1, 2024
  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  Disclosure(s):

  faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.