United States

Jatin P. Shah, M.D, holds The Elliott W. Strong Chair in Head and Neck Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York. He is also Professor of Surgery at Cornell University Medical College.  Dr Shah is an international leader in the field of head and neck surgery. 

United Kingdom

Kevin Harrington is an NIHR Senior Investigator and Head of the Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)/ Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH). He is the Co-Director for the ICR/RM CRUK RadNet Centre of Excellence.

Canada

Dr Ralph Gilbert is the chief of the Department of Otolaryngology and  Head and Neck Surgery at UHN and Professor of Head and Neck Surgery  at the University of Toronto. 

Dr Rosemary Martino is a Professor  and Chair in the Department of  Speech-Language Pathology at  the University of Toronto.

United Kingdom

Professor Hisham Mehanna is the Chair of Head and Neck Surgery, and Director of the Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education, at the University of Birmingham, UK.

China

Professor Anne Lee is a Clinical Oncologist and Deputy Hospital Chief Executive (2017-2025). She is the Director of the Shenzhen Hospital Accreditation Research Center and the Vice President of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Medical Specialist Training Centre. 

United States

Ehab Hanna, M.D., FACS, is an internationally recognized head and neck surgeon and expert in the treatment of patients with skull base tumors and head and neck cancer. Dr Hanna is currently a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery with a joint appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Baylor College  of Medicine.

Australia

Professor Clark AM is the Director of Head and Neck Cancer Research at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, the Director of Translational Research and Deputy Chair at the Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Academic Surgery, the Inaugural Walker Family Foundation Chair and Conjoint Professor in Head and Neck Cancer Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Sydney, and Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for Applied Innovations in Oral Cancer.

Hong Kong

Professor Brigette Ma is currently  Professor and Honorary Consultant  at the Department of Clinical Oncology, The Chinese University  of Hong Kong (CUHK), Director of  the Phase I Clinical Trial Centre (Oncology) and Chair of the  NTEC-CUHK ethics committee  for phase 1 studies.

Singapore

Professor Gopal Iyer is a senior consultant and Head of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery in National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and Singapore General Hospital, and Head of the Division of Medical Sciences at NCCS. 

India

Professor Pankaj Chaturvedi is a Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon and Deputy Director at Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai. He has been invited as visiting faculty in 44 institutions in 32 countries. He is the editor of the Textbook of Head and Neck Surgery. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Head and Neck surgery.  

Professor Danny Rischin is a medical oncologist/clinician researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Professorial Fellow, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne.

Professor Ganly is a senior attending surgeon at MSKCC and is Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Weill College, Cornell University, New York.

Professor Akihiro Homma is Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, and serves concurrently as Vice Director of Hokkaido University Hospital in Sapporo, Japan.

Dr. Michael Benedict Mejia is the current Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital. Prior to this role, he served as Head of the Head and Neck Unit at the Benavides Cancer Institute of the same institution.

Dr. Sue S. Yom, MD, PhD, MAS, FASTRO, FAAWR, FACR is the Vice Chair of Strategic Advisory and the Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California San Francisco. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, Chair of the NRG Oncology Head and Neck Cancer Committee, and the Guidelines and Protocols Committee Co-Chair and Board Member for the Head and Neck Cancer International Group. She is a Board Member of the RTOG Foundation. 

Canada

Dr. John de Almeida is the Department Head and Gullane / O’Neil Chair of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University Health Network (UHN) / Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto and Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Toronto. 

United States

Dr. Patrick Ha is chief of the University of California San Francisco Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and the Vice Dean of Clinical Affairs and Partnerships. 

Dr. Ha serves as the Editor In Chief of the journal Head and Neck and is on the editorial board of several medical journals, including Oral Oncology. He is the Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Distinguished Professor in Head and Neck Cancer at UCSF.

India

Dr Sarbani Ghosh-Laskar is a Consultant Radiation Oncologist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Dr Ghosh-Laskar is currently the Chairperson of the Indian College of Radiation Oncology, and Chairperson of the Joint AROI-ESTRO Head and Neck Teaching Course in India.

Hong Kong

Prof. Karen Chan, Associate Professor and Speech Language Pathologist, is the Director of the Swallowing Research Laboratory and the Programme Director of the BSc. (Speech Language Pathology) at The University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Ferrarotto is a Professor and Director of Head and Neck Oncology Clinical Research of Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Associate Professor Arutha Kulasinghe leads the Clinical-oMx Lab at the Frazer Institute, University of Queensland and is the Founding Scientific Director of the Queensland Spatial Biology Centre (QSBC) at the Wesley Research Institute. 

Ireland

Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beaumont Hospital & RCSI. 

Recent awards include the ‘Silver Scalpel’ for outstanding contribution to post graduate surgical training by The Irish Surgical Training Group (ISTG) and The ‘Robert Smith’ Lecture & Medal at the International Surgical Congress of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI).

Australia

A/Prof Penny Mackenzie is the Director of Radiation Oncology at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and is a Head and Neck, Breast and Haematologic Radiation Oncologist. Penny has also completed a PhD on Geriatric Oncology and Radiotherapy Utilisation. Penny is the Chair of the Geriatric Oncology Subcommittee at the Cancer Alliance Queensland.

United States

Dr. James Bates is an associate professor at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina.

Stephen Y. Kang, MD, FACS is a Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at The Ohio
State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he serves as Division Director of Head and
Neck Oncologic Surgery and Medical Director of the Head and Neck Oncology Service Line at The
James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute.

Professor Richard Su is currently serving as Clinical Professor and Chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Hong Kong. With a career dedicated to advancing the fields of oral and maxillofacial oncology and reconstructive surgery, Professor Su has established himself as one of the global authorities in his specialty.