Dr. Ravindra Uppaluri
Head and Neck Surgeon
2 Podcasts on BackTable
Dr. Ravindra Uppaluri is the Director of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Episode # 32 • 28 Oct 2025
Understanding Keynote-689: Immunotherapy for Head & Neck Cancer
While the standard for adjuvant head and neck cancer treatment hasn't changed since 2004, a new trial using perioperative pembrolizumab is forcing clinicians to rethink their entire workflow, starting with diagnosis. In this episode of the BackTable Podcast, head and neck surgical oncologist Dr. Adam Luginbuhl is joined by colleagues Dr. Dylan Roden and Dr. Ravindra Uppaluri to discuss the implementation and implications of the Keynote-689 trial, which introduced neoadjuvant and adjuvant immunotherapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer.
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About
Dr. Ravindra Uppaluri, MD/PhD is Director of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Uppaluri completed his MD/PhD at the University of Minnesota and subsequently his Otolaryngology residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO where he remained as a faculty member for the last 16 years. His clinical expertise is in multidisciplinary management of head and neck cancers, including minimally invasive transoral laser microsurgery, and endoscopic and open approaches to anterior skull base pathologies. Dr. Uppaluri has been the PI of clinical trials integrating small molecule and immunotherapeutics in the surgical management of head and neck cancers. He also leads an NIH funded laboratory focused on basic and translational approaches to head and neck cancers.
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