Aaron Tward, MD, PhD

Assoc Professor In Residence
M_Oto-General OHNS

Aaron D. Tward M.D., Ph.D., is a board-certified, fellowship-trained surgeon who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the ear and skull base.

Dr. Tward has particular clinical interests in cochlear implantation, management of benign and malignant tumors of the skull base including acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma), surgery for chronic otitis media, stapedectomy, superior semi-circular canal dehiscence repair, and endoscopic surgery of the ear and skull base.

Dr. Tward’s research interests include tumor biology, the genetics and genomics of disorders of the head and neck, the development and physiology of the organs of hearing, and clinical outcomes of surgery of the ear and skull base.

Education and Training:
• Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles, B.S. - Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
• Graduate School: University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. - Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Lab of A. Jake Lusis
• Graduate School: University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D. - Biomedical Sciences, Lab of J. Michael Bishop
• Medical School: University of California, San Francisco, M.D.
• Internship: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School - General Surgery

• Residency: Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Harvard Medical School Residency Program in Otolaryngology
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Massachusetts General Hospital
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center
Boston Children’s Hospital

• Clinical Fellowship: Otology, Neurotology, and Skull Base Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Massachusetts General Hospital
(Michael J. McKenna and Daniel J. Lee Fellowship directors)

• Post Doctoral: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Lab of Todd R. Golub

• Diplomate, American Board of Otolaryngology
• License, Medical Board of California

Publications

Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas.

Cell

Sanchez-Vega F, Mina M, Armenia J, Chatila WK, Luna A, La KC, Dimitriadoy S, Liu DL, Kantheti HS, Saghafinia S, Chakravarty D, Daian F, Gao Q, Bailey MH, Liang WW, Foltz SM, Shmulevich I, Ding L, Heins Z, Ochoa A, Gross B, Gao J, Zhang H, Kundra R, Kandoth C, Bahceci I, Dervishi L, Dogrusoz U, Zhou W, Shen H, Laird PW, Way GP, Greene CS, Liang H, Xiao Y, Wang C, Iavarone A, Berger AH, Bivona TG, Lazar AJ, Hammer GD, Giordano T, Kwong LN, McArthur G, Huang C, Tward AD, Frederick MJ, McCormick F, Meyerson M, Van Allen EM, Cherniack AD, Ciriello G, Sander C, Schultz N

Characterization of HPV and host genome interactions in primary head and neck cancers.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Parfenov M, Pedamallu CS, Gehlenborg N, Freeman SS, Danilova L, Bristow CA, Lee S, Hadjipanayis AG, Ivanova EV, Wilkerson MD, Protopopov A, Yang L, Seth S, Song X, Tang J, Ren X, Zhang J, Pantazi A, Santoso N, Xu AW, Mahadeshwar H, Wheeler DA, Haddad RI, Jung J, Ojesina AI, Issaeva N, Yarbrough WG, Hayes DN, Grandis JR, El-Naggar AK, Meyerson M, Park PJ, Chin L, Seidman JG, Hammerman PS, Kucherlapati R

The mutational landscape of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Stransky N, Egloff AM, Tward AD, Kostic AD, Cibulskis K, Sivachenko A, Kryukov GV, Lawrence MS, Sougnez C, McKenna A, Shefler E, Ramos AH, Stojanov P, Carter SL, Voet D, Cortés ML, Auclair D, Berger MF, Saksena G, Guiducci C, Onofrio RC, Parkin M, Romkes M, Weissfeld JL, Seethala RR, Wang L, Rangel-Escareño C, Fernandez-Lopez JC, Hidalgo-Miranda A, Melendez-Zajgla J, Winckler W, Ardlie K, Gabriel SB, Meyerson M, Lander ES, Getz G, Golub TR, Garraway LA, Grandis JR