A highly renowned surgeon, scientist and educator, Dr. St. John is Andelot Professor and Director of the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Otolaryngologistin- Chief, Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is the immediate past Professor and Chair of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Professor of Bioengineering at UCLA where she held the Thomas C. Calcaterra, M.D., Chair in Head and Neck Surgery and Co-Director of the UCLA Head and Neck Cancer Program. Under her leadership, the Department of Head & Neck Surgery at UCLA rose to #1 nationally by USNWR. Dr. St. John’s laboratory studies the mechanisms of tumor progression and metastasis, incorporating the results of their laboratory-based research into the development of novel therapeutics. She is an outstanding educator who