Maie St John
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
USA
Biography
Maie St John is an academic head & neck surgeon with a passion for education. She holds the Pearlman endowed Chair in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and is the Co-Director of the UCLA Head and Neck Cancer Program. The focus of her clinical work is the treatment of head and neck tumors. As chair of the Curriculum Committee in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at UCLA, she developed a critical and comprehensive education program that prepares our graduates for board certification. She has also been awarded the Samuel and Della Pearlman Chair in Head & Neck Surgery as a result of her teaching evaluations and contributions to the Department. Recently, she also received the UCLA Health System Humanism Award, as one of the top 10 most humanistic physicians at UCLA. She is an active member of several professional societies, including the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the American Head and Neck Society, the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, the Triological Society and the American Association for Cancer Research.
Abstract
Abstract : A novel optical imaging system for intra-operative parathyroid localization