Sara I. Pai, MD, PhD: Dr. Pai is Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of Translational Research in Head and Neck Cancer at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research interests focus on better understanding how head and neck cancers evade the immune system and strategies that can be applied to reactivate the host immune response against the tumors through vaccines and immune modulatory drugs. She leads several investigator-initiated clinical immunotherapy trials and has a research laboratory that is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as industry. She serves on national and international grant and strategic review panels. She is on the editorial board of lead scientific journals as well as serves on the advisory boards for several pharmaceutical companies.