Wesley Hicks Jr., MD, FACS

Chairman, Department of Head & Neck/Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Director, Head and Neck Surgical Fellowship Program

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Professor of Otolaryngology/ Head and Neck Surgery

Professor of Neurosurgery

Professor of Bioengineering

School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo

Profile

Areas of Expertise:

Head & neck cancers

Research

Research Interests:

Tissue engineering

Wound healing

Mechanisms involved in wound repair

Bioengineered devices for enhanced wound repair

Cellular microenvironment and tissue remodeling

Background Information

Education and Training:

BA - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

DDS - Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN

MD - School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo

Residency:

Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital

New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Board Certification:

Otolaryngology, American Board of Otolaryngology

National Board of Dental Examiners

National Board of Medical Examiners

Fellowships:

Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA

Publications

Publications:

WL, Burns SA, Hard R, Hicks Jr, Bright FV, Cohan D, Sigurdson L, Gardella Jr, JA. Determining the protein drug release characteristics and cell adhesion to a PLLA or PLGA biodegradable polymer membrane. Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A 2010; 94A(1):27-37
Cohan DM, Popat S, Kaplan SE, Rigual N, Loree T, Hicks Jr WL. Oropharyngeal cancer: current understanding and management. Current opinion in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery 2009; 17(2):88-94
Fang X, Hicks DG, Hicks Jr W, Zhang S. Osteoclastlike giant cell tumor of the salivary gland. Annals of diagnostic pathology 2009; 13(2):114-118
McCloskey SA, Loree TR, Khan MK, Mashtare TL, Sullivan M, Popat SR, Hicks WL, Rigual NR, Jaggernauth W, Singh AK. Radiation treatment interruptions greater than one week and low hemoglobin levels (12 g/dL) are predictors of local regional failure after definitive concurrent chemotherapy and intensity-modulated radiation therapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. American journal of clinical oncology 2009; 32(6):587-591
Yu J, Mahoney CM, Fahey AJ, Hicks Jr WL, Hard R, Bright FV, Gardella Jr JA. Phase separation at the surface of poly(ethylene oxide)-containing biodegradable poly(L-lactic acid) blends. Langmuir 2009; 25(19):11467-11471
Pfister DG, Martins R, McCaffrey T, Mittal BB, Pinto HA, Ridge JA, Samant S, Sanguineti G, Schuller DE, Shah JP, Spencer S, Trotti A 3rd, Weber RS, Wolf GT, Maghami E, Lydiatt WM, Kies MS, Ang KK, Brizel DM, Burtness BA, Cmelak AJ, Colevas AD, Dunphy F, Eisele DW, Gilbert J, Gillison ML, Haddad RI, Haughey BH, Hicks WL Jr, Hitchcock YJ, Worden F. Head and neck cancers. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2011; 9(6):596-650
Lee J-W, Jeong ED, Cho EJ, Gardella Jr JA, Hicks Jr W, Hard R, Bright FV. Surface-phase separation of PEO-containing biodegradable PLLA blends and block copolymers. Applied surface science 2008; 255(5 Part 1):2360-2364
Foster JM, Filocamo P, Nava H, Schiff M, Hicks W, Rigual N, Smith J, Loree T, Gibbs JF. The introducer technique is the optimal method for placing percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes in head and neck cancer patients. Surgical endoscopy 2007; 21(6):897-901
Stoler DL, Sait SN, Hicks WL Jr, Rigual NR, Loree TR, Bartos JD, Dutt SS, Chen N, Wiseman SM, Matsui S, Nowak NJ, Anderson GR. Comparative genomic instabilities of thyroid and colon cancers. Archives of otolaryngology--head and neck surgery 2007; 133(5):457-463
Jayaprakash V, Cheng C, Reid M, Dexter EU, Nwogu CE, Hicks W, Sullivan M, Demmy TL, Yendamuri S. Previous head and neck cancers portend poor prognoses in lung cancer patients. Annals of thoracic surgery 2011; 92(3):1056-1061
Chadha K, Thatikonda C, Miller A, Nava H, Sitrin M, Hicks W, Rigual N, Loree T, Schiff M. Outcomes of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Placement using the Brown-Muller T-fastener Technique in Head, Neck and Esophageal Cancer patients. American journal of gastroenterology 2009; 104(Suppl. 3):Abstract #1351
McCloskey SA, Jaggernauth W, Schwarz JK, Mashtare TL, Khan MK, Hicks WL, Popat SR, Rigual NR, Loree TR, Singh AK. Radiation treatment interruptions greater than 1 week and low hemoglobin levels (12 gm/dl)) triple local regional failure following definitive concurrent chemotherapy and IMRT for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2008; 72(1 Suppl.):S407
Platek ME, Reid ME, Wilding GE, Jaggernauth W, Rigual NR, Hicks WL Jr, Popat SR, Warren GW, Sullivan M, Thorstad WL, Khan MK, Loree TR, Singh AK. Pretreatment nutritional status and locoregional failure of patients with head and neck cancer undergoing definitive concurrent chemoradiation therapy. Head and neck 2011; 33(11):1561-1568
Platek ME, Cruz M, Sharma N, Burke M, Popat S, Loree T, Rigual N, Hicks W, Warren G, Singh A. Impact of Percentage of Pre-Treatment Ideal Body Weight On Outcomes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Definitive Concurrent Chemoradiation Therapy. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2011; 81(2 Suppl.):S547
Platek ME, Cruz M, Sharma N, Burke M, Popat S, Loree T, Rigual N, Hicks W, Warren G, Singh A. Quantification of the Effect of Treatment Duration on Local Regional Failure after Definitive Concurrent Chemotherapy and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck (SCCHN). International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2011; 81(2 Suppl.):S542-S543
Pfister DG, Ang K-K, Brizel DM, Burtness B, Cmelak AJ, Colevas AD, Dunphy F, Eisele DW, Gilbert J, Gillison ML, Haddad RI, Haughey BH, Hicks Jr WL, Hitchcock YJ, Kies MS, Lydiatt WM, Maghami E, Martins R, McCaffrey T, Mittal BB, Pinto HA, Ridge JA, Samant S, Sanguineti G, Schuller DE, Shah JP, Spencer S, Trotti III A, Weber RS, Wolf G, Worden F. Mucosal melanoma of the head and neck. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2012; 10(3):320-338
Ozbolat IT, Marchany M, Gardella Jr JA, Bright FV, Cartwright AN, Hard R, Hicks Jr WL, Koc B. Feature-based design of bio-degradable micro-patterned structures. Computer-aided design and applications 2009; 6(5):661-671
Gupta V, Cohan DM, Arshad H, Kuriakose MA, Hicks WL Jr. Palatal reconstruction. Current opinion in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery 2012; 20(4):225-230

Referral

Email:

Wesley.Hicks@RoswellPark.org

Fax:

716-845-3061