Dr. Chris Holsinger currently serves as Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Director of the Head and Neck Oncology Program at Stanford University.    

Dr Holsinger's research focuses on robotics, surgical innovation, AI, and clinical trials. In 2005, he described the surgical anatomy of the lateral oropharynx in English which helped to advance the burgeoning field of transoral robotic surgery.   He helped refine several TORS techniques and served as the principal investigator of the FDA investigational device exemption trial in 2016-2017 for the single-port robotic surgical system.  

He currently serves Chair of the Surgical Subcommittee, for the NRG Oncology’s Head and Neck Working Group.   He served as surgical PI for RTOG920, the largest post-op clinical trial in H&N oncology, and also served as head of surgeon credentialing for ECOG3311. His current research focuses on AI in surgery and endoscopy, cognitive world models, autonomy, as well as multimodal profiling of HPV-mediated oropharynx cancer.

He graduated in 1990 cum laude from Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences with a major in molecular biology and in 1995 with his medical degree from Vanderbilt School of Medicine.  He completed his internship and residency at Baylor College of Medicine and his Fellowship in head and neck surgical oncology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. In 2003, he was awarded Fulbright Scholarship to study surgery at the University of Paris with Professor Ollivier Laccourreye and with Professor Wolfgang Steiner at the Georg-August University in Göttingen.     From 2003-2013, Dr. Holsinger worked at the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.   In 2013, Dr. Holsinger moved to Stanford University to serve as Chief of Head and Neck Surgery, where he also led H&N Multidisciplinary Cancer Care Clinical Program. 

Prof. Stephan Lang is Chair of the Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the University Hospital in Essen, Germany. His areas of expertise include tumor immunology and advanced tumor surgery. He conducts research on the use of robotics, virtual reality, 4K 3D imaging, and artificial intelligence in head and neck surgery. His research interests also focus on the analysis of tumor-host interactions and the tumor microenvironment. Dr. Lang has published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, and his h-index is 61. In addition, he is the Past President of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany