Roy B. Sessions, M.D., retired from active practice in 2008 and is currently a Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at The Medical University of South Carolina. During his almost 40 year career he is responsible for over 140 scientific publications, including 3 editions of Cancer Of The Head And Neck: A Multidisciplinary Approach (with Harrison and Hong). The first of these won the Doody International Medical Book of the Year Award among 4000 other textbooks. He has been associated with Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/Cornell Medical College and Beth Israel Cancer Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and served 10 years as the Chairman of  the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine. During his academic career, he served as a consultant to the NCI, and was a member of the Editorial Board of their journal, the PDQ.  Dr. Sessions has lectured extensively in the U.S. and internationally, including Germany, China, UK, Italy, France, Ecuador, Brazil, and Japan.