Vikas Mehta, MD, MPH, FACS, is the Vice Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus is on the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer, diseases of the salivary glands and thyroid/parathyroid disease, with a particular interest in transoral robotic surgery and minimally invasive endocrine surgery. Dr Mehta received his Bachelor of Science in Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley in 2001. In 2006, he received his Doctor of Medicine at the University of California Irvine. Dr Mehta completed an internship in general surgery at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center in 2007.