K Thomas Robbins Author

Alfio Ferlito, M.D. Alfio Ferlito, M.D. is Director of the Department of Surgical Sciences, Professor and Chairman of the ENT Clinic at the University of Udine School of Medicine. He graduated in medicine at the University of Bologna. After two years at the University of Trieste, he worked at the ENT Department of Padua University from 1970 to 1997. He has collaborated in writing articles, editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor, special issues, book chapters and books with 323 international experts. He has edited a three-volume book entitled Cancer of the Larynx (CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1985) and three other books entitled Neoplasms of the Larynx (Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1993), Surgical Pathology of Laryngeal Neoplasms (Chapman and Hall, London, 1996) and Diseases of the Larynx (Arnold, London, 2000), and co-authored two books entitled Granulomas and Neoplasms of the Larynx (Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1988) and Surgery for Cancer of the Larynx and Related Structures together with Dr. Carl E. Silver (Saunders, Philadelphia, 1996). He is editor with Dr. Marvin P. Fried of The Larynx (Plural Publishing). He has been the author or co-author of 383 refereed publications in 46 medical journals and 48 chapters in various books. K. Thomas Robbins, M.D. Dr. Robbins is currently director of the Simmons Cooper Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University, and has served as chairman of the Departments of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, the University of Florida, and Southern Illinois University. He is a past president of the American Head and Neck Society and chaired the Committee for Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, and the Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Council of the American College of Surgeons. Dr Robbins' academic interests have focused on modifications for conservation neck dissection and neck dissection nomenclature, as well as targeted (intra-arterial) chemotherapy protocols for advanced head and neck cancer. He has been a leader in development of a standardized classification system for neck dissection. Carl E. Silver, M.D. Dr. Silver is Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and was chief of Head and Neck Surgery at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. He has published extensively on numerous issues concerning diagnosis and management of head and neck cancer. Dr. Silver has coordinated multi-institutional studies on radiographic diagnosis of cervical metastatic disease, and the efficacy of selective neck dissection. He is best known as author of five books on head and neck cancer. His "Surgery for Cancer of the Larynx" (New York, Churchill Livingstone 1981) was considered a "contemporary classic" (Annals of Surgery). Dr. Silver has been guest lecturer and visiting professor at institutions in Australia, Brazil, France, Great Britain, Germany and India, as well as in the United States.