Dr. Daniel Faden is a board-certified specialist in head and neck cancer surgery. He completed residency training in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at the University of California, San Francisco before completing two clinical fellowships in advanced head and neck oncologic surgery and cranial base surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His clinical practice focuses on providing comprehensive care for patients with benign and malignant head and neck tumors. He has a particular interest and expertise in minimally invasive head and neck cancer surgery and emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach for optimizing oncologic, functional, and cosmetic outcomes.

Dr. Faden is also an active head and neck cancer translational investigator, studying head and neck cancer genomics and leading head and neck cancer clinical trials. Prior to his arrival at Mass Eye and Ear, he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar at the National Institutes of Health/National Human Genome Research Institute and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.