Executive Medical Director
Medical Director, Providence Head and Neck Cancer Program, Providence Cancer Institute- Oregon
Member and Director, Surgical Oncology Research, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
Providence Cancer Institute
Portland, Oregon
R. Bryan Bell, MD, DDS, FACS, FRCS(Ed) is Executive Medical Director of the Providence Cancer Institute and the Earle A. Chiles Research Institute in Portland, Oregon. In this role, he oversees oncology services and research teams that deliver care to more than 9,000 cancer patients annually in 32 clinics and 8 Oregon hospitals. Through multiple leadership appointments at Providence, one of the nation’s largest health systems, he is working with other leaders to transform cancer care delivery and clinical trials access for all patients treated in the Providence family of organizations.
As an internationally recognized oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Bell has led pioneering research and clinical efforts to integrate immunotherapy into the perioperative setting and to enhance the effectiveness of head and neck cancer surgery, including virtual surgical planning, transoral robotic surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy. Using his surgical practice to conduct clinical trials in the neoadjuvant setting, Bell’s research bridges basic, translational and clinical activities. His work has been published in more than 350 scientific articles and book chapters and he is co-author of two major textbooks, including "Oral, Head and Neck Oncology and Reconstructive Surgery".
He has served on National Institutes of Health Head and Neck Steering Committee’s Immunotherapy Clinical Trials Planning Group and the Task Force on Previously Untreated/Locally Advanced (PULA) Disease. He has held numerous leadership positions within various professional and non-profit organizations and is past president of the American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons and the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
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