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Ken Kazahaya, MD, MBA, FACS

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Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
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Associate Surgeon, Division of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Medical Director, Cochlear Implant Program, Center for Childhood Communication, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Co-Lead Surgeon, Pediatric Thyroid Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Endowed Chair in Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Department: Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
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1f University of Pennsylvania 3f School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1989.
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1f University of Pennsylvania 28 School of Medicine, 1993.
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1f University of Pennsylvania 1c Wharton School of Business 16 , 2004.
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Description of Research Expertise

20 Thyroid Surgery
24 Pediatric Skull Base Surgery
19 Pediatric Otology
27 Pediatric Head and Neck oncology
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Description of Clinical Expertise

26 Cochlear implantation
28 Pediatric thyroid cancer/surgery
24 Pediatric skull base surgery
2c Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
20 Pediatric rhinosinusitis
15 Cholesteatoma
3e Management of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
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Selected Publications

1e7 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.

 1fc 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.

 1df 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.

 17c 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.

 185 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.

 22e 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.

 1bf 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.

 15b 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.

 192 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.

 1da 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.

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