| 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 Professor, Vice Chair 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. He also developed and serves as Director of the Head and Neck Tumor Center at MUSC.
He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the American Head and Neck Society as Vice President-Elect, and Council of the International Academy of Oral Oncology while just completing a four year term on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He has served on the NCI Head and Neck Steering Committee, Head and Neck Surgical Subcommittee for RTOG and Head and Neck Working Group for the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. Dr. Day volunteers his time as President of the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance, Inc. and in 1998 started the ongoing international Oral and Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week (OHANCAW).
Since completion of his fellowship, Dr. Day has limited his clinical practice to patients with tumors of the head and neck region, including skull base, thyroid, and salivary gland. He also continues to lead several basic, translational, and clinical trials as co-investigator or principal investigator in head and neck cancer therapeutics.
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