Editors and Authors
Brandon G. Bentz, MD
 Brandon Bentz, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is also a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator.
Bentz’s primary clinical interest is the surgical management of head and neck tumors of the upper aerodigestive tract, skull base, thyroid/parathyroid, skin, and sarcomas. He is actively involved in clinical research exploring better ways to treat these tumors. Bentz also has a significant basic science research interest in the biology of cancer cells, and in particular, exploring the intricacies of nitric oxide biology in cancer.
In 1993, Bentz received his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and subsequently completed his residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He joined the University of Utah faculty in 2002.
C. Anthony Hughes, MD
 C. Anthony Hughes, MD, is the otolaryngology division chief in the Department of Surgery at the Nemours Children’s Clinic in Pensacola, Florida. His clinical interests focus on ear, nose, and throat disorders, congenital abnormalities and disorders of the larynx and airway.
Dr. Hughes received his MD from East Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina. His post doc work includes a residency at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington D.C., and fellowships at The Children’s Memorial Hospital at Northwestern University, Chicago, and at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Robert W. Jyung, MD
Dr. Jyung is presently the Director of Otology & Neurotology at UMDNJ (the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey) – New Jersey Medical School. Prior to that position, he was on the full-time otology faculty at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School. His first teaching position was Director of Otology & Neurotology at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor in 1989. He then completed his residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Barnes Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and his fellowship in otology and neurotology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston.
He is interested in all aspects of otology, including otosclerosis, paragangliomas and other tumors of the temporal bone including vestibular schwannomas, Meniere’s disease and vestibular disorders, and cochlear implant surgery. His address is:
90 Bergen Street, DOC Suite 8100
Newark, NJ 07103
Phone: 973-972-4588
Saumil N. Merchant, MD
Saumil N. Merchant, M.D is associate professor of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. He is the director of the otopathology laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the co-director of the NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing and Balance Pathology Resource Registry.
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