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Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS, FACS

Dean, College of Medicine
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, OH, United States

An internationally recognized head and neck cancer surgeon scientist and leader in academic medicine, Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS, FACS, serves as the dean of The Ohio State University College of Medicine and vice president for Health Sciences of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She also holds the Leslie H. and Abigail S. Wexner Dean’s Chair in Medicine and is a professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
Dean Bradford specializes in head and neck cancer surgery. Her research program focuses on the identification of biomarkers that predict outcomes in head and neck cancer patients and the development of novel therapies that overcome resistance to traditional treatments. She also pioneered the use of sentinel lymph node biopsy as a safe and reliable tool to stage patients with melanoma of the head and neck. She has published more than 330 peer-reviewed articles and authored more than 20 book chapters.
Dean Bradford is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She served as the first woman president of the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS). She also served as president of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and was inducted into the academy’s Hall of Distinction in 2023. In 2024, she received the Margaret F. Butler Outstanding Mentor of Women in Head and Neck Surgery Award from the AHNS

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