Cherie-Ann O. Nathan, MD, is a surgeon-scientist internationally recognized for her commitment and contribution to patient care, humanitarianism, and investment in the future of the specialty through mentorship and engagement. Dr. Nathan is the Jack Pou Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at LSU Health Shreveport in Louisiana. She is also Director of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery and Research at the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center. Her prestigious research career has focused on head and neck squamous cell cancer, which has received funding from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health. She has served on both the Board of Directors for the AAO-HNS/F and American Board of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors, and as President of both the Association of Academic Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the American Head and Neck Society. Dr. Nathan has received many awards including the Athena Award, Leonard Tow Humanism Award, AAO-HNS Distinguished Service Award, and 2020 Margaret Butler Outstanding Mentor of Women in Head & Neck Surgery Award. She completed her otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residency and head and neck fellowship at University of California, San Diego. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins where she started her research career. Her passion to improve outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer was the reason she moved from Mumbai, India, where she went to medical school.