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Christopher H. Rassekh, MD

Professor
University of Pennsylvania ORL-HNS
Lafayette Hil, PA, United States

Dr. Rassekh went to undergraduate and medical school at the University of Iowa. He did his residency at Iowa and then fellowship in Advanced Head and Neck Oncology and Cranial Base Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He was Assistant Professor at UTMB in Galveston from 1993-1999 and became head and neck fellowship director there and then went to WVU where he was Associate Professor and Director of Head and Neck Surgery from until 2010. In 2011, he was recruited by Dr. Bert O'Malley to the University of Pennsylvania to help with TORS adoption. He became interested in sialendoscopy in 2002 after visiting Dr. Francis Marchal in Geneva. Shortly after arriving at Penn, he developed what was eventually the Airway Safety Committee and also initiated the Sialendoscopy program. He currently leads the Salivary Gland Center at Penn. As an active member of the American Head and Neck Society he has served on the education committee, the program committee and is most active in the skull base and salivary gland sections. He has been an active member of the North American Skull Base Society for 30 years. He has been a very active member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery throughout his career and was awarded the distinguished service in 2007. He has won numerous resident teaching awards. He was promoted to Professor at Penn in 2018 and also received the George Strawbridge award for excellence in ORL-HNS from the department in 2019. He was inducted into the Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians in 2019, the highest award for a clinician. He was inducted into the Triological society in 2018. He was inducted into the College of Physicians in 2022. In 2023, Dr. Rassekh became an oral board examiner for the American Board of Otolaryngology Certifying examination.

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