Her clinical efforts focus on the care of head and neck cancer patients, including patients with thyroid and parathyroid disorders. She has a specific interest in HPV-related head and neck cancer patients with several ongoing clinical studies focusing on this population. Dr. Pai graduated Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College and, subsequently, entered the MD/PhD Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her graduate training focused on developing vaccine therapies for HPV-related cancers, both cervical and head and neck. She completed residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2007. She serves as a Principal Investigator of an HPV vaccine and immunomodulatory clinical trial. Dr. Pai directs an NIH-funded research laboratory which studies the biology of HPV-related head and neck cancers.