Eric M. Genden

Eric M. Genden is an American head and neck cancer surgeon at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, where he chairs the department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery and also holds a professorship in neurosurgery and immunology. He took his medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1992, added a master's degree in healthcare management at the Harvard school of public health, and completed residency training at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. His clinical expertise covers thyroid and parathyroid surgery, head and neck cancer surgery and airway reconstruction, and in 2006 he performed a first jaw transplant that used the patient's own jaw and bone marrow. He has written textbooks on head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstruction and published more than two hundred peer reviewed articles.