Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
LSU Health - Shreveport
Cherie-Ann Nathan, MD, FACS, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at LSU-Health Shreveport. She is also Director of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery and Research at the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center. She completed her residency and head and neck fellowship in 1995 at University of California, San Diego. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins where she started her research career.
She is a Surgeon-Scientist that maintains a busy practice treating head and neck cancer patients, thyroid, parathyroid, and voice disorders and leads an active research team. Her translational research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute since 2000 and focuses on targeted therapy for head and neck patients. She is nationally and internationally recognized for her seminal work on molecular analysis of surgical margins and has pioneered investigator-initiated multi-institutional clinical trials using mTOR inhibitors in HNSCC patients. She is also NIH funded for chemoprevention of cancer with curcumin. She is a team member of the COBRE grant for viral oncogenesis. She has published extensively and has over 220 publications in peer reviewed journals and has authored textbooks and encyclopedia chapters.
Dr. Nathan was the Past President of AHNS, current President of AADO, is on the American Board of Otolaryngology/HNS Board of Directors, on the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors, the American Cancer Society CDC HPV steering committee, board of directors for the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance, and has served on the NCI Steering committee and Task Force.
The SB Commerce Department awarded her the Athena Award for community service and she received the Leonard Tow Humanism award from the Arnold Gold Foundation. The Board of Regents in Louisiana established the “Cherie-Ann Nathan Endowed Professorship in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery” initiated by grateful patients to honor her dedication and expertise.