Maie St. John

PROFESSOR AND CHAIR
BIOENGINEERING

Department of Head and Neck Surgery

Email: mstjohn@mednet.ucla.edu

Websites

Intraoperative Tissue Imaging for Cancer Margins and tissue typing (DOCI: dynamic optical contrast imaging
Polymer delivery of therapeutics
TME
Neural regulation of TME
Head and Neck cancer organoids and screening

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?sort=date&term=St+John+MA&cauthor_id=28755710

1988-92 B.S. (magna cum laude), Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1992-99 M.D./Ph.D. (with distinction and honors), Medical Scientist Training Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
1999 Internship, General Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Residency, General Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2000-04 Residency, Head & Neck Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Chief Resident, Head & Neck Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Business of Medicine Certificate

2015-2018 Samuel and Della Pearlman Chair, in Head and Neck Surgery
2015 UCLA Exceptional Physician (one of top three physicians at UCLA)
2015- Top Doctors Recognition, Los Angeles Magazine, annual recognition
2018- Exceptional Women in Medicine, Castle Connolly, annual recognition
2018 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Business of Medicine Certificate
2018- Thomas C. Calcaterra, MD, Chair in Head and Neck Surgery
2019-2022 Top Doctor, Castle Connolly, annual recognition
2019 Honorary Fellowship, Indian Academy of Otorhinolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgery (IAOHNS)
2020 Induction to CORLAS Collegium Oto-Rhino- Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum
2020 Inducted to American Laryngological Association Fellowship
2020 Honored as UCLA Health’s “100 in 100”: A Salute to 100 Trailblazing Women of UCLA Health
2021 Top Doctor – Otolaryngology, Los Angeles Business Journal
2021 UCLA Discovery Area of Concentration Program – Head and Neck Cancer: From molecular basis to survivorship
2021- Top Doctors Recognition, Pasadena Magazine, annual recognition
2022 Top Doctor – Otolaryngology, Los Angeles Business Journal
2022 Invited to participate in NCI Head and Neck Cancer Steering Committee (HNSC) Clinical Trials Planning Meeting on High Risk/Advanced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Cancer
2022 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Distinguished Service Award
2023-2025 Appointed to AADO Council
2023 ALA 2024 Daniel Baker MD Lectureship Committee, Chair