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David Goldenberg, MD

Professor and ChairOtolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Program Co-DirectorHead and Neck Oncology Fellowship

MemberDivision of Head and Neck Oncology and Surgery

ProfessorSurgery

ProfessorMedicine

MemberCancer Institute

MemberCancer Institute, Cancer Control

SpecialtyOtolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Head and Neck

Biography

David Goldenberg, MD, FACS, is a head and neck surgical oncologist. He was educated at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He completed a residency in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, and then went on to do a three-year fellowship in head and neck surgery and oncology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Currently professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Goldenberg combines a busy surgical practice with teaching and research. His clinical practice includes head and neck cancers, thyroid cancers and parathyroid disease, and radiofrequency ablation of thyroid nodules. His clinical research focus is on outcomes and etiology of the rise in incidence of thyroid cancer and his basic research lab and basic research focuses on thyroid cancer genomics in familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer as well as radiation induced thyroid cancer.

Dr. Goldenberg is an accomplished and prolific author of over 260 journal articles, 40 book chapters, and eight books in the field of head and neck and thyroid oncology and surgery.

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During a nine-day visit to the University of Ghana Medical Centre, our team taught residents and junior attending physicians basic otolaryngology skills, led a head and neck surgery course and supervised surgeries.

Meet Dr. David Goldenberg, Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) provides your surgeon with superior vision, precision, dexterity and improved access to difficult-to-reach areas of the throat.