Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, LSU Health Sciences Center, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, LSU Health Science Center Shreveport, LA, USA
Cherie-Ann Nathan, MD, FACS, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at LSU-Health in Shreveport. She is also Director of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery and Research at the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center. She completed her Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery residency and head and neck fellowship in 1995 at University of California, San Diego. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins where she started her research career. Following her fellowship she began her academic career at LSU-Shreveport.
She is a Surgeon-Scientist that maintains a busy practice treating head and neck cancer patients, thyroid, parathyroid diseases and voice disorders and leads an active research team. Her translational research program has been funded by the National Cancer Institute since 2000 and focuses on targeted therapy for head and neck patients. She is nationally and internationally recognized for her seminal work on molecular analysis of surgical margins and has pioneered clinical trials using mTOR inhibitors in HNSCC patients previously with Wyeth, and most recently with Novartis. She is also NIH funded for chemoprevention of cancer with curcumin and has a provisional patent for a new formulation of this compound. She is also a team member of the COBRE grant for viral oncogenesis. She has published extensively and has over 150 publications in peer reviewed journals and has authored textbooks and encyclopedia chapters.
The Board of Regents in Louisiana established the “Cherie-Ann Nathan Endowed Professorship in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery” initiated by grateful patients to honor her dedication and expertise.
Dr. Nathan is married to pulmonologist and critical care specialist Dr. Raghu Nathan and they have two boys. Her favorite hobby is performing with the “Nathan Family Trio” to raise money for the Arts and Cancer research in Shreveport.