Professor and Division Chief Surgical Oncology, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Trevor Hackman, is an Associate Professor and Head & Neck Fellowship Director in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Hackman completed his undergraduate training at Davidson College, before entering medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed an residency at the University of Pittsburgh, and then head and neck fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, where he trained in transoral laser microsurgery and microvascular reconstruction.
A fellowship-trained transoral head and neck surgeon, Dr. Hackman specializes in minimally invasive surgeries to remove upper aerodigestive tract cancer with microsurgical and robotic techniques, and currently is an authorized proctor for Intuitive Surgical. Under his leadership, UNC has become a proctor site for the head and neck application of the DaVinci robotic system.
Dr Hackman’s current robotic surgical practice includes resection of upper aerodigestive tract malignancies, sleep apnea surgery, robotic sialolithotomy (salivary stone removal) and pediatric airway cases. He serves as a consultant for the future designs of robotic equipment for head and neck surgery.
He also has clinical and research interests in head & neck, microvascular surgery, sialendoscopy, endocrine surgery, sleep surgery (including sleep endoscopy, robotic sleep apnea surgery, hypoglossal nerve stimulation). He has interests and research projects in QOL outcomes, QI research, and his clinical trial research focuses on induction chemotherapy followed by transoral surgery
He currently is an active member of AHNS reconstructive committee, AHNS ethics committee, as well as serving as the NC chapter otolaryngology representative to the ACS. At the University of North Carolina, he sits on the Medical School Executive Committee, the Credentialing Committee and leads the Otolaryngology and Plastic Surgery Service Line. He is also is Director of the AHNS ATC-approved 1-year head and neck fellowship at UNC.