Brandon Bentz, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is also a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator.

Bentz’s primary clinical interest is the surgical management of head and neck tumors of the upper aerodigestive tract, skull base, thyroid/parathyroid, skin, and sarcomas. He is actively involved in clinical research exploring better ways to treat these tumors. Bentz also has a significant basic science research interest in the biology of cancer cells, and in particular exploring the intricacies of nitric oxide biology in cancer.

In 1993, Bentz received his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and subsequently completed his residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Northwestern University Medical Center. He then completed a fellowship in head and neck surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He joined the University of Utah faculty in 2002.