Mark Zafereo
Dr. Mark Zafereo is a Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas where he is Section Chief of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery and Associate Medical Director of the Head & Neck Center. Dr. Zafereo serves as Treasurer of the American Thyroid Association, and on the American Head & Neck Society Research and Education Foundation Board of Trustees. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the International Thyroid Oncology Group. Dr. Zafereo leads several national multicenter clinical trials on neoadjuvant therapy followed by surgery for advanced differentiated, medullary, and anaplastic thyroid cancers. He has published significantly on Thyroid and other Head & Neck cancers, speaking nationally and internationally. His clinical practice focuses on patients afflicted with thyroid cancer and parathyroid neoplasms.
Sessions
Head and Neck cancer: how to manage depending on resource availability? will be discussed.
Head and neck cancer is a common yet aggressive malignancy with a poor prognosis, particularly when diagnosed at advanced stages. Despite progress in surgical, chemotherapeutic, and radiotherapeutic interventions, overall disease control and patient survival rates remains low due to high rates of recurrence and therapeutic resistance. Head and neck cancer continues to be a challenging disease and many efforts across the world are in process to help diagnose, treat, manage and surveil this disease and the patients it affects. Advances in therapeutics and new technologies continue to be developed and utilized in management of this challenging disease. Neoadjuvant and adjuvant immunotherapy prior to standard of care treatment has shown promising advances in response and overall control of disease in both mucosal, cutaneous and endocrine cancers. Artificial intelligence technology is opening new opportunities for complex data analysis and advances in translational and clinical care of patients. Advances in optical imaging technology is helping identification of cancer. Novel approaches to surgical planning and treatment are extending treatment possibilities with less morbidity and improved outcomes. This panel of experts will discuss new technologies, advances and treatment strategies in head & neck cancer. Speakers and panel discussion will focus and update on important topics in head and neck cancer:
Faculty Roster for Head & Neck Oncology American Academy of Otolaryngology Panel Symposia:
Wojciech Mydlarz MD
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Clint Allen MD
Center for Cancer Research/National Cancer Institute
National Institute of Health
Nicole Schmitt MD
Winship Cancer Institute
Emory University School of Medicine
Steven Chinn MD, MPH
Hillman Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Mark Zafereo MD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jaime Ku MD
Head and Neck Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Eleni Rettig MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Melina Windon MD
Markey Cancer Center
University of Kentucky School of Medicine
- Advances in head and neck cancer detection, and surveillance
- Advances and management updates in head and neck cancer
- Novel approaches open and endoscopic approaches to head and neck tumors
- Targeted therapy and immunotherapy combined with surgery for advanced thyroid cancer
- Translation applications of Artificial Intelligence in head and neck cancer