Cherie-Ann Nathan, MD, FACS, is the Pou Endowed Prof.& Chair Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at LSU-Health Shreveport. She is also Director of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery & Research at the Cancer Center. She completed her residency and head and neck fellowship at University of California, San Diego. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins. She is a Surgeon-Scientist that maintains a busy practice treating head & neck cancer, thyroid, parathyroid, salivary gland tumors and skin cancer. The National Cancer Institute has funded her translational research since 2000 and she is recognized internationally for her seminal work on molecular analysis of surgical margins. She has pioneered multi-institutional clinical trials using mTOR inhibitors in HNSCC patients. She has also received NIH funding for chemoprevention of cancer with curcumin and her current RO1 “Targeting the FGFR-2 pathway for cutaneous SCC” holds potential for patients with aggressive cSCC. She has over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored multiple textbooks. She has given over 220 invited national and international lectures.
Dr. Nathan is the current President of the Association of Academic Depts. of Oto/HNS, the Past-President of the American Head and Neck Society& Vice President for the Southern Section of the Triologic Society. She is on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Oto/HNS, American Academy of Oto/HNS, the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors & has served on the NCI Steering committee. She was awarded the Athena Award for community service and inducted into Shreveport’s 2019 Business Hall of Fame. She has been nominated as the Champion of Hope Honoree by the American Cancer Society & has a Nathan Professorship initiated by grateful patients. She received the 2020 Margaret Butler Outstanding Mentor of Women in Head & Neck Surgery and has consistently been in the Best Doctors of America.