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Published on April 9, 2018 by Andrew Urquhart

Andrew Urquhart – Marshfield, Wisconsin

Practice Contact Information

Marshfield clinic
1000 North Oak Avenue

Marshfield
Wisconsin
54449
United States

Phone: 715 3875271
Email:
Web Site: https://www.marshfieldclinic.org


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Surgeon


Biography/Statement

I have been practicing at the Marshfield Clinic for over 25 years. I have an active surgical practice in all aspects of head and Neck surgery with a particular focus on Thyroid and Parathyroid surgery. I strive to offer my patients excellent, compassionate care in a state of the art facility.

Clinical Trials

Any active trials enrolled through the Marshfield Clinic research center

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Published on April 9, 2018 by Emre Vural

Emre Vural, M.D., F.A.C.S. – Little Rock, Arkansas

Practice Contact Information

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4301 West Markham Street

Little Rock
Arkansas
72205
United States

Phone:
Email:
Web Site: http://doctors.uamshealth.com/profile/?pid=1519


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Surgeon, Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery


Biography/Statement

Dr. Emre Vural earned his medical degree at the Ankara University School of Medicine in Turkey where he also completed a residency in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery.  He completed fellowship trainings at UAMS in head and neck surgery and in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. 

Dr. Vural’s clinical interests include head and neck surgery for the treatment of benign or malignant tumors of the facial skin, mouth, throat, nose, sinuses, salivary glands, neck and thyroid gland as well as cosmetic and reconstructive facial surgery and rehabilitation of the paralyzed face. He is double-board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery and the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Vural is a member of numerous medical organizations, including the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, American College of Surgeons, American Head and Neck Society and European Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Dr. Vural is an active contributor to the medical literature in the area of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, presented in national and international conferences and served as an editorial board member and as a reviewer in many prestigious otolaryngology journals.

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Published on April 9, 2018 by Vicente Resto

Vicente Resto – Galveston, Texas

Practice Contact Information

UTMB Health
301 University Blvd.

Galveston
Texas
77555-0521
United States

Phone: 281-338-0829
Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://www.utmb.edu/oto


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Surgeon, Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery


Biography/Statement

Dr. Resto graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1992 with a bachelor degree in Chemistry.  He then completed the combined M.D., Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2000.  His doctoral degree is from the Department of Human Genetics for dissertation work in cancer genetics.  He next pursued internship training in General Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by residency training in the Harvard Combined Program in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.  In 2006, he completed advanced clinical fellowship training in Head and Neck Oncology, Skull Base, and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston.  He joined the full time faculty staff at UTMB in July, 2006.

Clinically, he focuses on facial plastics, reconstructive surgery, and skull base surgery.   Scientifically, Dr. Resto focuses on the study of HPV genetics in head and neck cancer as well as disparities in treatment outcomes.

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Published on April 9, 2018 by Antoine Eskander

Antoine (Tony) Eskander – Toronto, Ontario

Practice Contact Information

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Odette Cancer Centre
M-102

Toronto Ontario M4N 3M5 Canada

 

Phone: 416-480-6705
Email:
Web Site: https://sunnybrook.ca/team/member.asp?t=14&page=2152&m=817


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Research, Head and Neck Surgeon, Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery


Biography/Statement

Dr. Antoine Eskander  is a head and neck surgical oncologist and endocrine surgeon in Toronto, Canada.  He treats cancers of the mouth (oral cavity), throat (oropharynx), voice box (larynx), salivary glands (parotid and submandibular gland), cutaneous malignancies (melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and basal cell carcinoma), and thyroid/parathyroid gland disorders and malignancies. He is also a microvascular reconstructive surgeon who is well equipped to reconstruct head and neck defects related to cancer and trauma.
He completed his undergraduate (HBSc) and medical education (MD) at the University of Toronto.  He also completed residency in otolaryngology – head & neck surgery at the same institution.  During residency he completed the Royal College and University of Toronto Clinician Investigator Program and a thesis-based Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.  During that time he developed a epidemiological atlas for Cancer Care Ontario through the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) studying head and neck cancers in Ontario.  He then went on to an Advanced Training Council American Head and Neck Society head and neck surgical oncology and microvascular reconstructive surgery fellowship at the Ohio State University.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the dept of OTOHNS and works at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Odette Cancer Centre and the Michael Garron Hospital.  He also has privileges at Toronto General Hospital, Women’s College Hospital, and North York General Hospital.  He is a clinician investigator and an adjunct scientist at ICES.  (research biography can be found here https://www.ices.on.ca/About-ICES/ICES-Scientists/E/Antoine-Eskander/Bio)

Clinical Trials

clinical trials related to transoral surgery for oropharyngeal cancer and thyroid surgery web-based education tools.

Bibliography

Select Recent Publications:

Eskander A, Irish JC, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Head and Neck Cancer Surgery in Ontario, 2003‒2010: An ICES Atlas
https://www.ices.on.ca/Publications/Atlases-and-Reports/2015/Head-and-Neck-Cancer-Surgery-Atlas November 2015.

Eskander A, Devins G, Freeman J, Wei A, Rotstein L, Chauhan N, Sawka AM, Brown D, Irish J, Gilbert RW, Gullane PJ, Higgins K, Enepekides D, Goldstein DP. Waiting for Thyroid Surgery: A study of psychological morbidity and determinants of health associated with long wait times for thyroid surgery. Laryngoscope 2013 Feb;123(2):541-7.

Merdad M, Eskander A, Kroeker T, Freeman JL. Metastatic papillary thyroid cancer with lateral neck disease: pattern of spread by level. Head Neck 2013 Oct;35(10):1439-42.

Eskander A, Merdad M, Freeman JL, Witterick I. Lateral neck pattern of disease in papillary thyroid cancer: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by level. Thyroid2013 May;23(5):583-92.

Merdad M, Eskander A, Kroeker T, Freeman JL. Predictors of level II and Vb neck disease in metastatic papillary thyroid cancer. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012 Nov;138(11):1030-3.

Eskander A, Givi B, Gullane PJ, Irish JC, Brown D, Gilbert RW, Weinreb I, Hope A, Xu W, Goldstein DP. Outcome predictors in squamous cell carcinoma of the maxillary alveolus and hard palate. Laryngoscope 2013 Oct;123(10):2453-8.

Eskander A, Merdad M, Irish JC, Freeman JL, Hall SF, Groome PA, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Volume-outcome associations in Head & Neck Cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Head Neck. 2014 Dec;36(12):1820-34.

Eskander A, Irish JC, Groome PA, Freeman JL, Gullane P, Gilbert R, Hall SF, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Volume-outcome relationships for head and neck cancer surgery in a universal health care system. Laryngoscope. 2014 Sep;124(9):2081-8.

Eskander A, Papsin BC. Screening Infants for hearing impairment in Canada. CMAJ. 2014 Oct 7;186(14):1048-9.

Merdad MM, Eskander A, de Almeida J, Freeman JL, Rotstein L, Ezzat S, Sawka AM, Goldstein DP. Current management of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma in Canada. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2014 Aug 14;43:32.

Eskander A, Irish JC, Freeman JL, Gullane P, Gilbert R, Groome PA, Hall SF, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Overview of major salivary gland cancer surgery in Ontario (2003-2010). J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2014 Dec 10;43(1):50.

Eskander A, Papsin BC. Screening for deafness. CMAJ. 2015 Mar 17;187(5):357.

Eskander A, Irish JC, Gullane P, Gilbert R, de Almeida JR, Freeman J, Giuliani M, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP, Overview of Surgery for Oral Cavity Cancer in Ontario. Head Neck. 2016 Jul;38(7):1113-8.

Ganly I, Nixon I, Wang L, Palmer F, Migliacci J, Aniss A, Sywak M, Eskander A, Freeman JL, Campbell MJ, Shen W, Vaisman, F, Momesso D, Corbo R, Vaisman M, Shaha A, Tuttle R, Shah J, Patel S, Ganly I. Survival from differentiated thyroid cancer: What has age got to do with it? Thyroid. 2015 Oct;25(10):1106-14.

Givi B, Eskander A, Awad MI, Kong Q, Montero PH, Palmer FL, Xu W, De Almeida JR, Lee N, O’Sullivan B, Irish JC, Gilbert R, Ganly I, Patel SG, Goldstein DP, Morris LG. The impact of elective neck dissection on the Outcome of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas arising in the Maxillary Alveolus & Hard Palate. Head Neck. 2016 Apr;38 Suppl 1:E1688-94.

Eskander A, Monteiro E, Irish JC, Gullane P, Gilbert R, de Almeida JR, Brown D, Freeman J, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Adherence to guideline-recommended process measures for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck in Ontario: impact of Surgeon and Hospital Volume. Head Neck. 2016 Apr;38 Suppl 1:E1987-92.

Eskander A, Goldstein DP, Irish JC. Health Services Research and Regionalization of Care– From Policy to Practice: The Ontario Experience in Head and Neck Cancer. Curr Oncol Rep. 2016 Mar;18(3):19.

Irish JC, Eskander A. The importance and challenges of a specialty-specific National Surgical Quality Improvement Program for Head and Neck Surgery. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016 Apr;142(4):328-9.

Nixon IJ, Wang LY, Migliaci JC, Eskander A, Campbell MJ, Anassis A, Morris L, Vaisman F, Corbo R, Momesso D, Vaisman M, Carvalho A, Learoyd D, Leslie WD, Nason RW, Kuk D, Wreesmann V, Morris L, Palmer FL, Ganly I, Patel SG, Singh B, Tuttle RM, Shaha AR, Gönen M, Pathak KA, Shen WT, Sywak M, Kowalski L, Freeman J, Perrier N, Shah JP. An International Multi-Institutional Validation of Age 55 Years as a Cut-off for Risk Stratification in the AJCC/UICC Staging System for Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Thyroid. 2016 Mar;26(3):373-80.

Mifsud M*, Eskander A*, Irish J, Gullane P, Gilbert R, Brown D, De Almeida J, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Evolving trends in Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology: the Case of Ontario, Canada (1993-2010). Head Neck. 2017 May 30.

Eskander A*, Mifsud M*, Irish J, Gullane P, Gilbert R, Brown D, De Almeida J, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Overview of Surgery for Larynx and Hypopharynx Cancer in Ontario (2003 – 2010). Head Neck. 2017 Jun 7.

Xu JJ, Yu E, Pasternak J, Brierley J, Tsang R, Zhang H, Eskander A, Rotstein L, Sawka AM, Gilbert RW, Irish JC, Gullane P, Brown D, De Almeida J, Goldstein DP. Patterns of regional recurrence in papillary thyroid cancer patients with lateral neck metastases undergoing neck dissection. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017 May 31;46(1):43.

Eskander A, Kang SY, Teknos TN, Old MO. Advances in Midface Reconstruction: Beyond the Reconstructive Ladder. Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017 Jul 7.

Eskander A*, Zhan KY*, Kang SY, Old MO, Ozer E, Agrawal AA, Carrau RL, Rocco JW, Teknos TN. Appraisal of the AJCC 8th edition pathologic staging modifications for HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer, a study of the National Cancer Data Base. Oral Oncol. 2017 Oct;73:152-159.

Eskander A, Ghanem T, Agrawal A; Education Committee of American Head and Neck Society (AHNS). AHNS Series: Do you know your guidelines? Guideline recommendations for head and neck cancer of unknown primary site. Head Neck.2017 Nov 21.

Eskander A, Kang S, Tweel B, Sitapara J, Old M, Ozer E, Agrawal A, Carrau R, Rocco J, Teknos TN. Quality Indicators – Measurement and predictors in patients receiving free flap reconstructive procedures for head and neck cancer. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017 Dec 1.

Eskander A, Monteiro E, O’Connell D, Taylor SM. The Canadian Association of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology (CAHNSO). Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Choosing Wisely Campaign: imaging for patients with hoarseness, fine needle aspiration for neck mass, and ultrasound for odynophagia. Journal of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. 2018 Jan 8;47(1):2.​

Published on April 9, 2018 by Michael Singer

Michael Singer – West Bloomfield, Michigan

Practice Contact Information

Henry Ford Health System
6777 West Maple Road

West Bloomfield
Michigan
48322
United States

Phone: 248-661-6472
Email:
Web Site: https://www.henryford.com/physician-directory/s/singer-michael


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery


Biography/Statement

Dr. Singer graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received his medical degree with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from New York University. He undertook his residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the State University of New York – Downstate. Following this, he completed a fellowship in head and neck endocrine surgery at the Medical College of Georgia. A second fellowship in minimally invasive endocrine surgery augmented his experience with minimally invasive, endoscopic and robotic endocrine techniques.

Dr. Singer has published extensively on thyroid and parathyroid surgery outcomes and minimally invasive and robotic endocrine procedures. His research is focused on improving endocrine surgery outcomes and facilitating minimally invasive and robotic surgery.

Dr. Singer’s clinical practice is dedicated exclusively to the surgical management of thyroid and parathyroid diseases. Skilled with the full range of thyroid and parathyroid surgical techniques, he is particularly interested in providing “customized surgery”, tailoring the surgical approach to optimally manage the disease process and expectations of individual patients.

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