Professor
University of Pennsylvania Dept. of ORL-HNS
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Rassekh grew up in Iowa and completed his BS/MD at the University of Iowa. He also did his residency in Otolaryngology and a research fellowship at Iowa. He did his surgical internship at Michigan State University and his fellowship in 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 joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania to help build the Transoral Robotic Surgery program shortly after FDA approval, having been one of the first 12 surgeons trained in TORS by the inventors, Drs. O’Malley and Weinstein. He became interested in sialendoscopy in 2002 after visiting Dr. Marchal in Geneva and then received formal training in 2007 at the 3rd International Salivary Gland Congress in Pittsburgh. 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. As an active member of the American Head and Neck Society throughout his career, he served on the education committee, the program committee and is now very active in the skull base and salivary gland sections. He organized the 5th International Congress on Salivary Gland diseases in 2019 in Philadelphia which was endorsed by the AAO-HNS, AHNS and the MSGS. He continues to develop the interface between TORS and both airway and salivary gland diseases and has published in these areas.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
3:15 PM – 4:05 PM CT