Chris Holsinger

I am Associate Professor and Attending Surgeon in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He directs the Program in Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Holsinger received his medical degree from Vanderbilt School of Medicine in Nashville

I then completed internship and residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and his Fellowship in head and neck surgical oncology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. In 2003, as a Fulbright Scholar, I studie surgery at the University of Paris with Professor Ollivier Laccourreye and with Professor Wolfgang Steiner at the Georg-August University in Göttingen.

My surgical practice focuses on the surgical management of benign and malignant diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid and head and neck. My areas of research interest include endoscopic head and neck surgery, including robotic thyroidectomy, transoral robotic surgery and transoral laser microsurgery, as well as time-honoured approaches of conservation laryngeal surgery, supracricoid partial laryngectomy. I think we need to view the emerging techinques as "endoscopic and minimally invasive head and neck surgery"

I currently coordinate several clinical trials. I serve as the national surgical PI on RTOG 920, “PHASE III STUDY OF POSTOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY +/- CETUXIMAB FOR LOCALLY-ADVANCED RESECTED HEAD&NECK; CANCER.” I am also studying robotic thyroidectomy and endoscopic minimally invasive surgery in the setting of both prospective Phase II clinical trial to assess post-operative laryngeal function.

As well, I conduct patient-based biological research in the thyroid cancer, laryngeal cancer and molecular determinants of resistance to induction chemotherapy.