Dr. Erin Kaye MD is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She grew up in Miami, Florida and graduated from the University of Florida. She completed both medical school and Otolaryngology residency at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She completed her surgical training with a fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery, Microvascular Reconstruction, and Transoral Robotic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Kaye is an academic head and neck surgeon and has several research interests pertaining to head and neck cancer. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications related to nerve invasion in advanced skin cancer, biomarker analysis in oral cavity, sinonasal, and oropharyngeal cancer, and education and patient satisfaction after head and neck screenings. Her current research goals include creating a head and neck tumor bank to analyze mechanisms of perineural invasion and collaborating with the Sylvester Cancer Cancer to instigate a head and neck cancer survivorship program to identify therapies that may improve quality of life for cancer patients through treatment, recovery, and beyond. Dr. Kaye is eager to apply clinical, research, and mentorship skills to her future academic career as an ablative and reconstructive head and neck surgeon. Her areas of expertise include benign and malignant masses in the head and neck including mouth, throat, larynx, nasal cavity, sinuses, neck, skull base, and parapharyngeal space, salivary gland pathology, thyroid and parathyroid surgery, advanced head and neck skin cancer surgery including sentinel lymph node biopsy, complex reconstruction including microvascular techniques, transoral robotic surgery, and surgery for Zenker’s diverticulum, among others.