Professor and Chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Chief of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Maryland Medical Center
Dr. Scott E. Strome, a nationally recognized head and neck surgeon and researcher studying novel ways to harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer, is chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also chief of Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The department provides patient care, research and training in conditions that affect the ear, nose and throat.
Dr. Strome received his BA from Dartmouth College in 1987 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1991. He subsequently completed a combined 6-year internship/residency program at the University of Michigan Medical Center in 1997 and a head and neck surgery/microvascular reconstructive fellowship with Dr. Richard Hayden in 1998. He accepted a faculty position in the Department of Oto-HNS at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 1998, where he practiced until being recruited to head the Department of Oto-HNS at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Strome’s clinical interests include thyroid, salivary gland and laryngeal malignancies, melanoma, and head and neck reconstruction. He has developed a new peptide vaccine targeting human papilloma virus 16, a major cause of head and neck cancer. He also assisted his father, Marshall Strome, M.D., a head and neck surgeon, in developing the technique for the world’s first human total laryngeal transplant. The elder Dr. Strome performed the transplant at The Cleveland Clinic in 1998.
Dr. Strome runs a large translational research program, has a long history of federal funding, and has published extensively in leading scientific journals.
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