Dr Bruce Haughey - BSc, MS, MBChB

Bruce Haughey was awarded both his science and medical degrees from The University of Auckland in 1976.

After graduation he went on to intern at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton before becoming a trainee under the auspices of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in surgery and otolaryngology (head and neck surgery) at Auckland Hospital.

Bruce moved to the United States in 1981 and furthered his study of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at the prestigious University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. In 1984, he completed a fellowship in skull-base surgery at the same institution and earned a Master of Science degree in otolaryngology from the University of Iowa. He joined the School of Medicine there in 1988.

Bruce is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, the American Academy of Otolaryngology, and a corresponding fellow of the German Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

His publications over the past twenty years demonstrate his commitment to the area of head and neck cancer treatment and reconstructive surgery. He is co-editor of the recently published fourth edition of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, a four-volume, comprehensive textbook in the field. He sees patients daily at the Centre for Advanced Medicine of Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

In December 2005 Bruce was named the inaugural holder of the Dr. Joseph B. Kimbrough Chair in Maxillofacial Surgery and Prosthodontics in the Washington University Department of Otolaryngology for Teaching and Healing. He is also a researcher with the Siteman Cancer Centre and a head and neck surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital.