Dr. Jeffrey N. Myers is a head and neck surgeon, Full Professor, and translational scientist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he has been on faculty since 1997. He serves several important roles, including Deputy Chair for Academic Programs and Director of Research for the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, and currently holds the Alando J. Ballantyne Distinguished Chair of Head and Neck Surgery
Dr. Myers has been a reviewer on several NIH study sections, has been a principle or co-principle investigator on numerous investigator-initiated and cooperative group trials, and has served in several prominent positions on national committees. He was named the President of the American Head and Neck Society in July 2016.
Dr. Myers received his medical (MD) and doctoral (PhD) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and he then completed his residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He subsequently completed fellowship training in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 1997, where he has been on the faculty ever since.
Dr. Myers leads a basic and translational research program that has been funded by several institutional, state and national grants. His primary research interests are in the role of p53 mutation and other genomic alterations in oral cancer progression, metastasis and response to treatment.