Head & Neck Cancer

The Head and Neck Cancer Program at the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute offers the most comprehensive care for patients with all types and stages of head and neck tumors – benign and malignant.

Through screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment, support and long term clinical care, your multidisciplinary team of physicians and healthcare providers, combine their expertise to offer you an individualized treatment plan. Additionally, as the charter member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance, our partnership means the Hartford Healthcare Cancer Institute can bring the most innovative, evidence-based cancer care and clinical research directly to you, in our community.

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Head and Neck Program Leadership:

Clinton Kuwada, MD

Co-Director, Head and Neck Cancer Program
Head and Neck Surgical Oncologist and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgeon

Akshay Patel, DO, FAOCO

Co-Director, Head and Neck Cancer Program
Head and Neck Surgical Oncologist and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgeon

Meet our Head & Neck Cancer Specialists:

	Specialties	Location
Alsamarai, Susan, MD 4.9 /5 96 surveys 203.238.7747	Hematology / Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Meriden
Boey, Howard Patrick, MD 203.777.7500	Otolaryngology	Meriden
Bonaiuto, Gregory Salvatore, MD 860.493.1950	Head & Neck Surgery Otolaryngology Show Less	Hartford Wethersfield Show Less
Boyd, Timothy Stephen, MD 860.972.2803	Radiation Oncology	Hartford
Cavanagh, Norman James, MD, DMD 860.548.7338	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Farmington Hartford Show Less
Chu, Benjamin, MD 4.8 /5 54 surveys 860.249.6291	Medical Oncology Hematology / Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Hartford Avon Hartford Willimantic Willimantic Show Less
Dowsett, Robert James, MD 860.545.2803	Radiation Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Hartford
Giove, Lawrence M., MD 860.246.6647	Medical Oncology Hematology / Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Wethersfield
Goldman, Jonathan F., DMD 860.242.6142	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Bloomfield West Hartford Show Less
Googel, Fredric Ronald, DMD 860.666.5674	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Newington
Hosmer, Wylie David, MD 4.9 /5 146 surveys 860.621.9316	Hematology / Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Southington Bristol Plainville Show Less
Khan, Anwar Mangey, MD 860.827.4161	Radiation Oncology	New Britain
Kuwada, Clinton Akira, MD 860.493.1950	Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Show Less	Hartford Wethersfield Show Less
Lele, Uday Chintamani, MD 4.9 /5 40 surveys 203.238.7747	Medical Oncology Hematology / Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Meriden
Lieblich, Stuart Edward, DMD 860.674.8079	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Avon
Melnik, George Anthony, MD 860.224.2631	Head & Neck Surgery Otolaryngology Show Less	New Britain Southington Show Less
Moeller, Carl William, MD 860.493.1950	Head & Neck Surgery Otolaryngology Show Less	Hartford Wethersfield Show Less
Nadkarni, Rajani P., MD 4.9 /5 156 surveys 203.238.7747	Hematology / Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Meriden
Patel, Akshay V., DO, FAOCO 860.493.1950	Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Show Less	Wethersfield Hartford Show Less
Piorkowski, Robert Joseph, MD, FACS 4.9 /5 158 surveys 860.696.2040	Breast Surgery General Surgery Head & Neck Surgery Surgical Oncology Show Less	Hartford Wethersfield Show Less
Rathmann, Joerg, MD 860.496.6825	Hematology / Oncology Internal Medicine Medical Oncology Show Less	Torrington Avon Show Less
Reiner, Steven S., DDS 860.347.6939	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Glastonbury Middletown Show Less
Rutter, Charles E., MD 860.972.2803	Radiation Oncology	Hartford
Ryan, Lawrence Patrick, DDS, MD 860.295.8780	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Marlborough
Salner, Andrew, MD 860.972.2803	Radiation Oncology	Hartford
Schauer, Peter Kevin, MD, FACP 4.9 /5 108 surveys 860.249.6291	Medical Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Hartford Avon Show Less
Shafer, David M., DMD 860.679.2583	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Farmington
Sharma, Vipra, MD 203.382.0630	Hematology / Oncology Internal Medicine Show Less	Bridgeport
Stock, Alden Lawrence, MD 860.224.2631	Head & Neck Surgery Otolaryngology Show Less	New Britain

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