Liza S. Blumenfeld, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Speech-Language Pathologist
Co-Director, Hanna and Mark Gleiberman
Head and Neck Cancer Center
University of California, San Diego

Joseph A. Califano III, MD
Director, Hanna and Mark Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center
Professor and Iris and Matthew Strauss Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Head and Neck Surgery
University of California, San Diego

Ivan H. El-Sayed, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Co-Director, UCSF Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery Program
University of California, San Francisco

Cara Evans, MM, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist, Department of Otolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery
UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center
University of California, San Francisco

Jonathan R. George, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
University of California, San Francisco

Theresa Guo, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-
Head and Neck Surgery
Gleiberman Early Career Faculty Fellow
Hanna and Mark Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center
University of California, San Diego

UCSF Course Faculty

Kamal Al-Eryani, DDS, PhD
Associate Professor
Chief of Oral Medicine, Oral Dysplasia and Oral Oncology
Director, Oral Medicine Postgraduate Program
School of Dentistry

Jason W. Chan, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology

Lois Chen, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center and
Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

Desi Gutierrez, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center and
Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

Hyunseok Kang, MD, MPH
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Head and Neck Medical Oncology Program

Daniel M. Klufas, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology

P. Daniel Knott, MD
Professor and Division Director
Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Fellowships Co-Director: Facial Plastic and Head and Neck Microvascular Surgery

Vimal Krishnan, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology

Giovanni Lara, BSN, RN, PHN, AMB-BC, OCN
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Ilya Likhterov, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery

Yue Ma, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Laryngology
UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center

Mayra Gomez Padua, PhD, MA
Attending Clinical Psychologist
UCSF's Helen Diller Cancer Center

Andrea Park, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Madhu Rao, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology

Nicole Rinne, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center and
Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

Clark Rosen, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Chief of the Division of Laryngology
Director, UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center

William R. Ryan, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Head and Neck Oncologic, Thyroid, and Salivary Surgery
University of California San Francisco

Arun Sharma, BDS, MS
Professor of Preventive & Restorative Dental Science
UCSF School of Dentistry

Trina Sheedy, MMS, PA-C
UCSF Head and Neck Surg

Erik Steele, MFA, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center and
Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

Katy K. Tsai, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Melanoma & Skin Cancer Program

Annemieke van Zante, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Director of Cytopathology Fellowship

Jules Vieaux, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Palliative Care

Katherine Wai, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Zoe Weston, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center

Xin Cynthia Wu, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Mary Jue Xu, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Sky Yang, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
Voice and Swallowing Center and
Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery

Sue Yom, MD, PhD
Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Distinguished Professor in Head and Neck Cancer Radiation Oncology
Professor of Radiation Oncology and of Otolaryngology-
Head and Neck Surgery

VyVy Young, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Laryngology
UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center