Pioneered combination radiation and chemotherapy as first-line treatment for head and neck cancer
Internationally renowned expert in the treatment of head and neck cancer.
His work has shown that intense treatment combining radiation and chemotherapy can bring
locally advanced head and neck cancer under control and improve survival.
Treated famed Chicago chef Grant Achatz for stage 4B tongue cancer with a new first-line
combination approach of chemotherapy and radiation. As a result, Achatz did not require
surgery, sparing his taste buds.
Recipient of the new Translational Research Professorship from the American Society of
Clinical Oncology, as well as the Francis L. Lederer Foundation grant for research on the
malignancies of the upper aerodigestive tract.