Dr. Day received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma.  He completed his residency at Louisiana State University before pursuing a fellowship in head and neck oncologic surgery at the University of California, Davis and in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery at Inselspital-Bern in Bern, Switzerland.  Following fellowship, he joined the faculty in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee and is now Associate Professor and Director of the Division of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, USA.  Dr. Day is the Director of the Head and Neck Tumor Program at Hollings Cancer Center, and past Chair of the Coordinating Council of the statewide South Carolina Cancer Alliance.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAOHNS) and recently completed his term as Chair of the committee on Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology for the AAOHNS and the Prevention Committee for the American Head and Neck Society.   Dr. Day volunteers his time as President of the Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation and, in 1998, started the first Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week(OHANCAW) which is now an international event occurring annually.  Dr. Day’s practice is limited to the treatment of patients with tumors of the head and neck.

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