NAME AND TITLE
Sara I. Pai, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor -Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Head and Neck Cancer Research Division

OFFICE PHONE
410-502-9825

EDUCATION
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

EDUCATION
Residency: The Johns Hopkins University

CLINICAL INTERESTS
Thyroid and parathyroid disorders; HPV-associated head and neck cancers; salivary gland disorders.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Development of novel cancer vaccines for HPV-associated head and neck cancers; Understanding how cancer cells can alter their microenvironment to evade the immune system; Genetic changes associated with thyroid malignancies and identification of diagnostic molecular markers for early detection and development of novel treatment strategies.

ADMINISTRATIVE TITLE
Assistant Professor

PRINCIPAL HOSPITAL
Johns Hopkins Hospital

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1) A.A.Wu, K.J. Niparko, S.I. Pai. Immunotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer. In Press. 2007

2) Pai SI, Goldstein BJ, Studeman KD, Westra WH, Tufano RP. Concurrent sporadic parathyroid adenoma and carcinoma. Am J Otolaryng. 2006 Sep-Oct;27(5):346-8.

3) Kang TH, Lee JH, Song CK, Han HD, Shin BC, Pai SI, Hung CF, Timble C, Lim JS, Kim TW, Wu TC. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate enhances CD8+ T cell-mediated antitumor immunity induced by DNA vaccination. Cancer Res 2007 Jan 15;67(2):802-11.