Associate Professor
Loma Linda University
Dr. Chi T. Viet is a surgeon scientist focused on head and neck cancer management. She is an Associate Professor at Loma Linda University. She earned her DDS and PhD from University of California, San Francisco, and her MD from New York University, where she completed her Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency. She then went on to complete fellowship training in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery in Portland, Oregon. As a head and neck oncologic surgeon her practice is devoted to the comprehensive surgical management of patients with head and neck benign and malignant pathology. In addition to treating oral cavity and salivary gland tumors, she performs transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for tumors of the oropharynx. She is also specialized in reconstruction of complex head and neck defects using microvascular free flaps. She is devoted to improving disease outcome for her patients and restoring their form and function through reconstruction of the face, jaw and teeth after tumor ablation.
Dr. Viet is a principal investigator of a translational research lab focused on head and neck carcinogenesis and the neurobiological basis of symptoms faced by head and neck cancer patients. She has optimized various in vitro and in vivo models to study metastasis and pain in head and neck cancer. She has also developed epigenetic biomarkers to predict head and neck cancer progression. Her work on the role of epigenetics in head and neck carcinogenesis and cancer pain resulted in first author publications in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, PAIN, PLOS One and Clinical Cancer Research.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Saturday, December 4, 2021
11:30am – 12:00pm CST