Dr. Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD, FACS Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, specializes in Head and Neck Oncology and is the Director of Robotic Surgery. Dr. Duvvuri completed his undergraduate education in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and remained there to obtain his MD and PhD degrees. He completed his residency training in Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, then trained in advanced head and neck and Endocrine Oncologic surgery at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Dr. Duvvuri has special interests in minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery of the head and neck; tumors of the Thyroid and Parathyroid glands; and Molecular Oncology. He also has an active federally funded research program investigating the role of calcium-activated chloride channels in head and neck cancer.