Mark Varvares

Specializing in head and neck ablative and reconstructive surgery, Dr. Mark Varvares serves as the Chief of the Departments of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Mass Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital and as Chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Varvares first joined the full-time faculty of Mass Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School in 1992, following two years in a community-based practice. In 2003, he accepted a Department Chairmanship at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, where he successfully established a multidisciplinary program in head and neck oncology, among his many other accomplishments. In 2015, he returned to Boston to rejoin the full-time faculty of Mass Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School.

His clinical interests include squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, free flap reconstruction of head and neck defects, skull base surgery, surgery of the parotid, thyroid and parathyroid glands, surgery of the larynx, and cancer of the nose and paranasal sinuses.

Education

• Doctor of Medicine - MD Saint Louis University School of Medicine (1982.09 — 1986.05)
• Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc University of Missouri-Columbia (1976.09 — 1980.05)

Companies

• Chief of Otolarynology, Head and Neck Surgeon Massachusetts Eye and Ear (2021)
• Professor of Otolaryngology Harvard Medical School (2018)
• Associate Professor of Otolaryngology Harvard Medical School (2016 — 2018)
• Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Saint Louis University School of Medicine (2003 — 2015)
• Assistant Professor of Otology and Laryngology Harvard Medical School (1998 — 2003)
• Instructor in Otology and Laryngology Harvard Medical School (1996 — 1998)
• Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Saint Louis University School of Medicine (1994 — 1996)
• Instructor in Otology and Larnygology Harvard Medical School (1992 — 1994)
• Otology and Laryngology Clinical Fellow Harvard Medical School (1991 — 1992)