NAME AND TITLE
Wayne Koch, MD
Professor - Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery and Oncology
Director - Head and Neck Cancer Center

OFFICE PHONE
410-955-4906

EDUCATION - Medical School
University of Pittsburgh

EDUCATION - Residency
Tufts and Boston University

EDUCATION - Fellowship
The Johns Hopkins University - Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Otolaryngology

CLINICAL INTERESTS
Head and Neck tumors (larynx, mouth, neck, arterior skull base, throat, lip, tongue, nose sinuses, thyroid, salivary glands.) Sleep disorders.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Genetic changes associated with head and neck cancer. Use of these as markers for early detection, prognostic factors to select treatment, targets for therapy. Human papillomavirus as casual factor of head and neck cancer.

ADMINISTRATIVE TITLE
Professor

PRINCIPAL HOSPITAL
Johns Hopkins Hospital

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
D’Souza G, Kreimer AR, Viscidi R, Pawlita M, Fakhry C, Koch WM, Westra WH, Gillison ML. Case-control study of human papillomavirus and oropharyngeal cancer. N Engl J Med 2007; 356; 19: 1944-1956.

Nayak CS, Carvalho AL, Jeronimo C, Henrique R, Kim MM, Hoque MO, Chang S, Jiang WW, Koch W, Westra W, Sidransky D, Califano J. Positive Correlation of Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-3 and Death-Associated Protein Kinase Hypermethylation in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Laryngoscope 2007 Aug; 117 (8):1376-80.

Goldenberg D, Sciubba J, Koch, WM. Cystic metastasis from head and neck squamous cell cancer: a distinct disease variant? Head Neck 2006 Jul; 28(7): 633-8.

Wolpoe ME, Goldenberg D, Koch WM. Squamous cell carcinoma of the Sinonasal Cavity arising as a Second primary in Individuals with Head and Neck Cancer. Laryngoscope 2006 May; 116(5): 696-699.

Harden SV, Thomas DC, Benoit N, Minhas K, Westra WH, Califano JA, Koch W, Sidransky D. Real-time gap ligase chain reaction: a rapid semiquantitative assay for detecting p53 mutation at low levels in surgical margins and lymph nodes from resected lung and head and neck tumors. Clin Cancer Res. 2004 Apr 1; 10(7):2379 85.