Luiz Paulo Kowalski, M.D., PhD

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Luiz Paulo Kowalski, M.D., PhD was graduated from the Medical School of the Universidade Federal do Paraná (1979). After a 3-year residency in Surgical Oncology at Hospital do Câncer in São Paulo, he undertake a one-year Fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery at Hospital Heliópolis. He obtained his PhD degree (1989) in Otorhinolaryngology from the Escola Paulista de Medicina in São Paulo. During his Post-Graduation he also completed a 6-months observership in Head and Neck Surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (1988). On 1996 He obtained the academic title of Free-Professor of Oncology at Universidade de São Paulo. On 1990, He was recruited to the Hospital do Cancer A C Camargo as the Director of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology. Academic appointments have included Professor of the Postgraduate Courses of Oncology at University of São Paulo (since 1991) and Oncology at Fundação Antonio Prudente (since 1997). He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College of London since 1995 and an Honorary Associate Professor of the University Carol Davila since 2005. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Head and Neck Society, American Academy of Otolaryngology, and Brazilian Head and Neck Surgery Society. He served as President of the IV Brazilian Oral Cancer Congress, and President of the 8th International Congress on Oral Cancer. Dr Kowalski has authored or co-authored more than 260 peer reviewed articles (160 in international journals), written 3 Thesis and 70 book chapters, and edited 6 books. His publications have dealt mainly with epidemiology, prognostic factors, oral cancer, management of the neck and biomarkers.