Cherie-ann O. Nathan MD, FACS

Cherie-Ann Nathan, MD, FACS, completed her Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery residency and head and neck fellowship in 1995 at the University of California, San Diego. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins where she started her research career. Following her fellowship, she began her academic career at LSU Health Shreveport. Her passion to improve outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer was the reason she moved from Mumbai India, where she went to medical school.

She is a Surgeon-Scientist that maintains a busy practice treating head and neck cancer, thyroid, parathyroid, and salivary gland tumors and she leads an active research team. The National Cancer Institute has funded her translational research since 2000 and her focus is on targeted therapy for head and neck patients. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her seminal work on molecular analysis of surgical margins. She has pioneered multi-institutional clinical trials using mTOR inhibitors in HNSCC patients with both Wyeth and Novartis. She has also received NIH funding for the chemoprevention of cancer with curcumin and has a patent for curcumin chewing gum. Her new RO1 on Targeting the FGFR-2 pathway for cutaneous SCC holds potential for transplant patients with aggressive cSCC. She has published extensively, has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored multiple textbooks and encyclopedia chapters.

Dr. Nathan is currently the President of the American Head and Neck Society and President-Elect of the Association of Academic Depts. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. She also serves on many National committees some of which include the NCI Steering committee, the American Cancer Society-CDC HPV Steering Committee, Executive board of directors for the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance, Council Member for the Society of University Otolaryngology, and the Larynx Preservation Guideline Panel for ASCO. Dr. Nathan is married to pulmonary and critical care physician Raghu Nathan and they have two boys. Her favorite hobby was to perform with the Nathan Family Trio to raise money for the Arts and Cancer research in Shreveport.