Dr. Paul Friedlander

Dr. Friedlander practicesat Tulane Medical Center, University Medical Center and the VA Medical Center (SLVHCS) . He received his B.S. in biology from Georgetown University and his M.D. from LSU (New Orleans). Following medical school, he completed a two-year General Surgery residency at George Washington University, an Otolaryngology residency at LSU (New Orleans), and a Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 1997, he entered academic practice, where the majority of his effort was in translational research in head and neck cancers. He established a head and neck tumor bank, investigated and published on gene therapy using modified adenoviruses in targeting head and neck cancer as well as immunomodulation of head and neck cancer using the CD40 ligand protein. He joined Tulane in 2006 as an Associate Professor. He became the Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology in 2009, the Residency Program Director in 2011, and currently serves in both roles. He established Healing Hands Across the Divide (2010) to address racial and socioeconomic head and neck cancer disparity. This has resulted in numerous publications and presentations. His current research focus is on head and neck cancer disparity and health equity.