Dr. Patrick Ha, UCSF Professor & Chief of Head & Neck Oncologic Surgery, returns to talk about Van Halen, thyroid nodules, head & neck cancer screening, COVID, and more. Here are the prior episodes we’ve done with Dr. Ha.

Check out the upcoming head and neck cancer CME virtual course Dr. Ha is leading at UCSF: here’s the brochure, here’s a link for docs, NPs, residents, med students, here’s a link for the third day of the conference that especially focuses on SLP specialists.

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