Critical Issues in Head and Neck Oncology

1, 2013 he received the title of Commander in the Order of Leopold for his contributions to oncology.

Jean-Pascal Machiels MD, PhD, is head of department of medical oncology and a member of the directory board of the oncology center, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels Belgium. He trained at Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, where he gained his MD  in 1993 and his PhD in 2001  and at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore USA, where he was a Fellow in Medical Oncology  from 1998 until 2000,. His main interests include Head and Neck cancer, and phase 1 clinical trials. He has published more than one hundred papers reporting on clinical trials and translational research.  Volker Budach is Head of the Depts. for Radiation Oncology at the Charité University Medicine Berlin. He became a board certified radiation oncologist at the University of Essen in 1985 and was appointed as full professor and chair of the Dept. for Radiation Oncology at the Charité University Clinics in 1993. He was board member and treasurer of the ESTRO during 1996 and 2004 and chairman of the EORTC-Radiooncology Group during 2000-2003, followed by the chairmanship of the EORTC Clinical Research Division and member of the EORTC Executive committee from 2003 - 2006. He was president of the German Society for Radiation Oncology from 2007-2009. Currently he holds the head position of the Center for Tumor Medicine at the Charité. He actively organized and supported diverse interdisciplinary national and international meetings with the topic of head and neck cancer and is also member of the European Head and Neck Society. He has a long-standing record as PI for three German multicentric trials comprising more than 800 patients. He is founding and current board member of the German Head and Neck Clinical Trialists' Collaborative Group. He is a highly distinguished and internationally well-known expert in head and neck cancer with more than 300 publications cited in Pubmed

Professor C. René Leemans, MD, PhD is chair of the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam since 2002. His special interests include head and neck oncology, reconstructive and microvascular surgery, and basic research. René Leemans has made a sustained and internationally recognized contribution to cancer care and research in the field of head and neck oncology over the past decades. He has published over 350 papers in high profile journals and is regularly invited to speak at international conferences and tutor at courses. He also serves on the editorial board of nine peer-reviewed journals.

Professor O'Sullivan is the Bartley-Smith/Wharton Chair in Radiation Oncology and leader of the Head and Neck Program at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto. He is the Co-chair of the Head and Neck Steering committee of the US National Cancer Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the UICC Manual of Clinical Oncology. He is Chair of the UICC Prognostic Factors Classification Committee,  and Chair of the UICC Head and Neck Committee, co-editor of the UICC TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours and Liaison the AJCC Expert Committee on Head and Neck Cancer.  Professor O'Sullivan has received multiple awards and honors for his work, has lectured extensively throughout the world, and has published over 370 peer-review papers.Piero Nicolai was born in 1954. Since 2006 he is serving as Chairman of the Unit of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at ASST Spedali Civili Brescia - University of Brescia (Italy). In 2016 he has also been appointed Head of the Department of Surgery at ASST Spedali Civili Brescia and Rector's Delegate for relations with Brescia Health Care System of the University of Brescia. He received his MD degree at the University of Padua, where he completed his residency programme in Otolaryngology, and subsequently in Medical Oncology. His clinical and research activities are mainly focused on head and neck oncology and endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery. Prof. Nicolai has authored or co-authored 245 papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as 57 book chapters. He was co-editor of a book on "Imaging in Treatment Planning for Sinonasal Diseases", and Editor of 6 issues of Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery on Head and Neck Oncology. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, Head and Neck, International Journal of Head & Neck Surgery, The Laryngoscope, Clinical Otolaryngology,and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Oncology - Head and Neck Cancer Section.