Ken Kazahaya - Faculty Biosketch

Ken Kazahaya, MD, MBA, FACS

Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

Associate Surgeon, Division of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Director, Pediatric Skull Base Surgery Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Medical Director, Cochlear Implant Program, Center for Childhood Communication, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Co-Lead Surgeon, Pediatric Thyroid Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Endowed Chair in Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Department: Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

Contact information

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Hub for Clinical Collaboration
Division of Otolaryngology
3500 Civic Center Boulevard, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-590-3440/1582
Fax: 215-590-3986

Email:
kazahaya@email.chop.edu

Links
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Otolaryngology

Education:
B.S. (Electrical Engineering)
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1989.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1993.
M.B.A.
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business , 2004.

Post-Graduate Training
Intern, General Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1993-1994.
Resident, Otorhinolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 1994-1998.
Fellow, Pediatric Otolaryngology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1998-2000.
Mini-Fellowship, Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, 2000-2000.

Certifications
American Board of Otorhinolaryngology, 1999.

Permanent link

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Description of Research Expertise

Thyroid Surgery
Pediatric Skull Base Surgery
Pediatric Otology
Pediatric Head and Neck oncology

Description of Clinical Expertise

Cochlear implantation
Pediatric thyroid cancer/surgery
Pediatric skull base surgery
Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
Pediatric rhinosinusitis
Cholesteatoma
Management of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss

Selected Publications

Baran JA, Bojarsky M, Halada S, Ricarte-Filho JC, Isaza A, Franco AT, Surrey LF, Bhatti T, Baloch ZW, Adzick NS, Moustoufi-Moab S, Kazahaya K, Bauer AJ: Low-invasive somatic oncogenes and lymph node metastasis in pediatric papillary thyroid cancer: implications for prophylactic central neck dissection. European Thyroid Journal Page: ETJ-23-0265, Jul 1 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1530/ETJ-23-0265. Online ahead of print.

Lo E, Blair J, Yamamoto N, Diaz-Miranda MA, Bedoukian E, Gray C, Lawrence A, Dedhia K, Elden LM, Germiller JA, Kazahaya K, Sobol S, Luo M, Krantz ID, Hartman TR: Recurrent missense variant identified in two unrelated families with MPZL2-related hearing loss, expanding the variant spectrum associated with DFNB111. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 194(5): e63530, May 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63530. Epub 2024 Jan 10.

Bojarsky M, Baran JA, Halada S, Isaza A, Zhuang H, States L, Grant FD, Robbins S, Sisko L, Ricarte-Filho JC, Kazahaya K, Adzick NS, Mostoufi-Moab S, Bauer AJ: Outcomes of ATA low-risk pediatric thyroid cancer patients not treated with radioactive iodine therapy. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism 108(12): 3338-3344, Nov 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgad322. Epub ahead of print June 2, 2023.

Baran JA, Halada S, Bauer AJ, Li Y, Isaza A, Patel T, Sisko L, Ginsberg JP, Kazahaya K, Adzick NS, Mostoufi-Moab S: Thyroid ultrasound screening in childhood cancer survivors following radiotherapy. Hormone Research in Pediatrics Page: 1-11, Sep 18 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1159/000531241. Online ahead of print.

Halada S, Baran JA, Isaza A, Patel T, Sisko L, Kazahaya K, Adzick NS, Katowitz WR, Magee L, Bauer AJ: Impact of definitive surgery for Graves' Disease on adolescent disease-specific quality of life and psychosocial functioning. Thyroid 32(12): 1519-1528, Dec 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1089/thy.2022.0334. Epub 2022 Nov 30.

Maksimoski M, Bauer AJ, Kazahaya K, Manning SC, Parikh SR, Simons JP, D'Souza J, Maddalozzo J, Purkey MR, Rychlik K, Ho B, Rutter MJ, Jiang W, Prager JD, Diercks G, Propst EJ, Miyamoto RC, Stack BC, Randolph GW, Rastatter JC: Outcomes in pediatric thyroidectomy: results from a multinational, multi-institutional database. Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery 167(5): 869-876, Nov 2022 Notes: Retrospective multi-institutional cohort study. doi: 10.1177/01945998221076065. Epub 2022 Feb 8.

Halada S, Baran JA, Bauer AJ, Ricarte-Filho JC, Isaza A, Patel T, Franco AT, Mostoufi-Moab S, Adzick NS, Kazahaya K, Bhatti TR, Baloch Z, Surrey LF: Clinicopathologic characteristics of pediatric follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma subtypes: a retrospective cohort study. Thyroid 32(11): 1353-1361, Nov 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1089/thy.2022.0239. Epub 2022 Oct 20.

Lee DR, Banik GL, Giordano T, Kazahaya K, Lin EE: Early elective surgery in children with mild COVID-19 does not increase pulmonary complications: a retrospective cohort study. Pediatric Anesthesia 32(10): 1172-1174, Oct 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1111/pan.14528. Epub 2022 Jul 22.

Van Remortel BJ, Chehab LM, Bauer A, Isaza A, Li Y, Heron D, Franco A, Laetsch T, Kazahaya K, Adzick NS, Mostoufi-Moab S: Surgical outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer undergoing thyroidectomy: a single institution experience. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 69(6): e29674, Jun 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1002/pbc.29674. Epub 2022 Mar 26.

Franco AT, Ricarte-Filho JC, Isaza A, Jones Z, Jain N, Mostoufi-Moab S, Surrey L, Laetsch TW, Li MM, DeHart JC, Reichenberger E, Taylor D, Kazahaya K, Adzick NS, Bauer AJ: Fusion oncogenes are associated with increased metastatic capacity and persistent disease in pediatric thyroid cancers. Journal of Clinical Oncology 40(1): 1081-1090, Apr 1 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.01861. Epub 2022 Jan 11.