Abstract
Dr Terry Day attended undergraduate studies and medical school at the University of Oklahoma. He completed an internship in general surgery and residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Louisiana State University followed by a fellowship in head and neck oncologic surgery at the University of California, Davis. He also attended a clinical fellowship in craniomaxillofacial surgery at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He was a member of the faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville from 1996-1999, and in September 1999 he joined the faculty in the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina and serves as the chair of the Cancer Program Committee at Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston.
In 1997, Dr Day formed the Association for Head and Neck Cancer Awareness and coordinated the inaugural Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week. He was later nominated President of the Yul Brenner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the public education, awareness, diagnosis, and prevention of head and neck cancer. He continues as president of the organization and recently directed the fourth annual Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week. Dr Day has been involved in numerous public health, education and awareness symposia and served at the strategic planning meeting of Oral Health America and the National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP). He has published over 30 articles and has served on numerous committees for the American Head and Neck Society and the AAO-HNS. It is for his tremendous humanitarian effort on behalf of patients with head and neck cancer that he is awarded the Jerome C. Goldstein, MD, Public Service Award.
Dr Day lives in Charleston with his wife Millie and son Austen.