Background
Dr. Carole Fakhry is a head and neck surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins and treats the breadth of patients with head and neck cancers, including cancers of the tonsils, base of tongue, mouth, larynx, thyroid, salivary gland (parotid, submandibular gland) and skin cancers among others.
After an undergraduate degree at Stanford University, she completed medical school, residency in otolaryngology head and neck surgery and fellowship in head and neck surgical oncology at Johns Hopkins. She has also received a master’s in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is presently professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oncology and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology.
Her research interest focuses on the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in head and neck squamous cell cancer. She has demonstrated that the presence of HPV confers a prognostic advantage to individuals with oropharyngeal cancer and that HPV is associated with unique clinical characteristics. In addition to the clinical implications of HPV in head and neck cancer, she is co-principal investigator of a large study to understand screening individuals at “high-risk” of malignancy and evaluating imaging modalities to improve diagnostics and early detection of HPV- related head and neck cancer.
She is Executive Vice Director of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chief of Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Director of the Head and Neck Cancer Center. She also serves as director of the head and neck group in the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, the head and neck surgical oncology fellowship and department fellowships. She is associate editor for Oral Oncology and serves on several editorial boards.