Charles Ohse Professor of Surgery, Chief of Otolaryngology
Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Judson is the Charles W. Ohse Professor and Chief of Otolaryngology at Yale University School of Medicine. He a head and neck surgeon, investigator, educator, and administrative healthcare leader. His previous positions include serving as Chief Ambulatory Officer of Smilow Cancer Hospital and Program Director of the Yale Otolaryngology Residency.
His surgical practice focuses on the treatment of benign and malignant tumors and other surgical disorders of the head and neck. He specializes in minimally invasive surgical approaches including robotic, endoscopic laser and tailored open surgeries. He routinely operates on complex and difficult cases and works with a multidisciplinary team of other surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation doctors, and other specialist providers.
As an investigator, Dr. Judson started a tumor biorepository that supports multiple laboratory investigations of head and neck cancer at Yale and other institutions including the Yale Head and Neck SPORE program. He is the principal investigator of the Yale Larynx laboratory, which has functioned since 1972, and investigates the role of bile acid reflux in hypopharyngeal carcinogenesis and identifying saliva biomarkers of head and neck cancer.
Dr. Judson attended Middlebury College, obtained a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College. He completed a residency at Georgetown University Hospital in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, and a fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology. Before working in medicine, he was a Peace Corp Volunteer in Sri Lanka and worked as Assistant Deputy Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. He completed a Master of Business Administration degree at the Yale School of Management in 2022.