Professor

Dr. William C. Faquin is the Chief of Otolaryngologic Pathology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear and a subspecialist in Head and Neck Pathology & Cytopathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and is recognized for his contributions to the study of thyroid, salivary gland, and HPV-related cancers of the head and neck. He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored several books on head and neck cytohistology, salivary gland cytopathology, and thyroid cytopathology.

Dr. Faquin is the Editor-in-Chief for Cancer Cytopathology which is one of the 3 journals of the American Cancer Society, he is an author of the upcoming ARP Fascicle for Upper Aerodigestive Tract Tumors, co-author of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology, co-chair of the College of American Pathologists Evidence-Based Guidelines Committee for the testing of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas for high-risk HPV, and co-editor of the Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology sponsored by the ASC and IAC.