Maie A. St. John MD, PhD, FACS

Maie St. John, M.D., Ph.D., is a renowned otolaryngologist, and professor and Samuel and Della Pearlman Chair in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine. She serves as a co-director of the UCLA Head and Neck Cancer Program and director of the UCLA Head and Neck Cancer Novel Therapeutics Program, and has been a member of the cancer center since 2005.

St. John earned her B.S. degree from Stanford University in 1992, and her Ph.D. degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1999 as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program. At UCLA, she was a research scholar and graduate student researcher (1999–2004), and a postdoctoral fellow (2003–2004) with Dr. Steven Dubinett, current director of the lung cancer research program at the Jonsson Cancer Center. Board certified in otolaryngology, St. John joined the UCLA faculty as an assistant professor in 2006, and rose to the rank of Chair in 2017.