James G. Wetrich
Dr. James Y. Suen is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS). His primary surgical interests include head and neck cancer, congenital vascular lesions of the head and neck, and diseases of the larynx, for which he established a treatment team that is internationally known. He is also co-founder, President and CEO of CytoAstra, LLC, a new venture focused on diagnostic devices for chronic and acute diseases such as malaria. He just finished his eighth major textbook, including four editions of Cancer of the Head and Neck, which are used in universities around the world. He has published more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters. Dr. Suen has been recognized on multiple occasions with the Red Sash Award for Teaching. In 1990, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award given by the UAMS College of Medicine. In 1991, he was honored with the Distinguished Citizen Award awarded by KARK-TV and the Governor’s Office of Volunteerism. In 1995, he was selected for the Distinguished Alumnus Award by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He served as one of President William Clinton’s personal physicians during his administration. Dr. Suen studied under New York`s Dr. Wilbur Gould, otolaryngologist to Pavarotti and Sinatra. In 1995, he was selected by Good Housekeeping as one of the top 400 cancer specialists in the US and, since that time, he has been listed in every edition of Best Doctors in America; also listed in Castle Connolly’s America’s Top Doctors for Cancers, and Top Surgeons in the United States, and he was named to the 2015 Newsweek Top Cancer Doctors in the United States. In 2006 he was selected by the UAMS College of Medicine to deliver the Annual Distinguished Faculty Lectureship. He co-founded the Arkansas Cancer Research Center and was Executive Director from 2002 to 2007.
Dr. Suen is a fellow in the American Academy of Otolaryngologists and the American Head and Neck Society of which he is past president. He is certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology. A Captain in the United States Air Force, he completed a fellowship in Otolaryngic Pathology at the Armed Forces’ Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., and was an advanced senior fellow in head and neck surgery at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Dr. Suen received his medical degree from UAMS in 1966 and completed residencies in general surgery and otolaryngology at San Francisco General Hospital and UAMS.