Head & Neck Cancer Treatment Team

The following treatment team members specialize in head and neck cancer at the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. To make an appointment, please call The James Line at (614) 293-5066 or toll-free 1-800-293-5066. The James Line is a free, 24-hour, confidential telephone service staffed by oncology nurses weekdays from 8:00 a.m.– 4:30 p.m. to provide callers with cancer information and physician referrals throughout central Ohio. For further information about a physician listed below, click on the name:

Department of Otolaryngology/Division of Head & Neck Surgery

Theodoros Teknos, MD, Co-Director of Head and Neck Disease Committee
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
David E. Schuller and Carole H. Schuller Chair of Head and Neck
Oncologic Surgery

Amit Agrawal, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Head and Neck Surgery

Ricardo Carrau, MD
Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Enver Ozer, MD
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Head and Neck Surgery

Matthew Old, MD
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Skull Base/Neurosurgery

Endocrinology

Richard Kloos, MD*
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Matthew Ringel, MD*
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Jennifer Sipos, MD

* Appointments by physician referral preferred

John Grecula, MD
Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine 

Medical Oncology

Maura Gillison, MD, Co-Director of Head and Neck Disease Committee 
Professor of Internal Medicine & Epidemiology
Jeg Coughlin Chair of Cancer Research

Voice and Swallowing Disorders Clinic

L. Arick Forrest, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Director, Voice Disorders Clinic

Dentistry

Meade C. Van Putten, Jr., DDS, MS
Associate Professor, College of Dentistry
Director of Maxillofacial Prosthodontics