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Sharon Tzelnick

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

Sharon Tzelnick

Assistant Professor

Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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17 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

Dental Rehabilitation of the Scapular Tip in Maxillary Reconstruction.
Head & neck · 2026
Complication Rates Associated With Evolving Practice Patterns in Vasopressor Use and Fluid Administration for Oral Cavity Cancer Free Flap Reconstruction.
Head & neck · 2026 · senior author
Evaluation of Machine Learning and Statistical Models for Predicting Long Term Gastrostomy Tube Dependency in Patients Undergoing Major Oral Cavity Cancer Surgery With Free Flap Reconstruction.
Head & neck · 2026

All 17 publications

17 publications.

Dental Rehabilitation of the Scapular Tip in Maxillary Reconstruction.

Sarkis LM, Lee J, Cuddy K, Rittenberg B, Al Mardini M, Mkl Yao C, Tzelnick S, Goldstein D, Gilbert R, de Almeida JR

Head & neck2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1002/hed.70251 PMID: 42163478

Complication Rates Associated With Evolving Practice Patterns in Vasopressor Use and Fluid Administration for Oral Cavity Cancer Free Flap Reconstruction.

Gao H, Dharmawardana N, Esemezie AO, Ziai H, Ataalla P, Weisbrod N, Deutsch K, McCluskey SA, Enepekides D, Higgins KM, Eskander A, de Almeida JR, Goldstein DP, Gilbert RW, Irish JC, Brown DH, Yao CMKL, Noel CW, Tzelnick S

Head & neck2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/hed.70481 PMID: 42757680

Evaluation of Machine Learning and Statistical Models for Predicting Long Term Gastrostomy Tube Dependency in Patients Undergoing Major Oral Cavity Cancer Surgery With Free Flap Reconstruction.

Namavarian A, Alenazi A, Hueniken K, Ataalla P, Sarkis L, Najjar E, Ziai H, Yao CMKL, Tzelnick S, Baskurt Z, Khalid MU, Goldstein DP, Enepekides DJ, Higgins KM, Xu W, Hosni A, Hahn E, Huang SH, Rudzicz F, Eskander A, de Almeida JR

Head & neck2026

DOI: 10.1002/hed.70353 PMID: 42438145

Porphyrin-lipid nanotheranostics for multimodal imaging of nodal disease in preclinical oral cancers.

Valic MS, Najjar E, Zheng M, Townson JL, Chan HHL, Tzelnick S, Ruaro A, El-Sayes A, Halim M, Schimmer P, Zhang CJ, Ye T, Jiang W, Chen J, Irish JC, Zheng G

Theranostics2026

DOI: 10.7150/thno.129853 PMID: 42370178

Investigating the impact of margins on the management of oropharyngeal cancer treated with transoral robotic surgery: a survey of head and neck oncologists' treatment patterns.

Tubin F, Esemezie AO, Sarkis LM, Yao CM, Tzelnick S, Noel CW, Goldstein DP, Hosni A, Hahn E, McPartlin A, Bratman SV, de Almeida JR

Oral oncology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2026.108124 PMID: 42762773

Deep learning-enabled fluorescence imaging for oral cancer margin classification in preclinical models

Hikaru Kurosawa, Natalie J. Won, Jay Steven Wunder, Sujit Patil, Mandolin Bartling, Esmat Najjar, Sharon Tzelnick, Brian C. Wilson, Jonathan Crawford Irish, Michael J. Daly

Journal of Biomedical Optics20259 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.30.s3.s34109 PMID: 40949530

Cutaneous photosensitivity of phototheranostic porphyrin-lipid nanoparticles.

Valic MS, Zheng M, Husby T, Guidolin K, Sahovaler A, Tzelnick S, Jiang W, Halim M, Schimmer P, El-Sayes A, Zhang CJ, Ye T, Kosik I, Townson JL, Ng KK, Ding L, Chen J, Irish JC, Weersink R, Wilson BC, Zheng G

Photochemistry and photobiology20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/php.14088 PMID: 40191965

PET-CT Test Properties for HPV Positive Unknown Primary of the Neck: A FIND Trial Correlative Study.

Tzelnick S, Metser U, Yu E, Yao CMKL, Goldstein D, Weinreb I, Perez-Ordonez B, Tsai J, Hosni A, Huang SH, Bratman S, Kim J, de Almeida JR

Head & neck20252 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1002/hed.28238 PMID: 40719095

Applications for Circulating Cell-Free DNA in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Non-Invasive Approach for Detecting Structural Variants, Fusions, and Oncoviruses.

Bhattacharya M, Yaniv D, D'Souza DP, Yosefof E, Tzelnick S, Detroja R, Wax T, Levy-Barda A, Baum G, Mizrachi A, Bachar G, Frenkel Morgenstern M

Cancers2025

DOI: 10.3390/cancers17121901 PMID: 40563552

Nanoparticle-mediated Photodynamic Therapy as a Method to Ablate Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Preclinical Models.

Sahovaler A, Valic MS, Townson JL, Chan HHL, Zheng M, Tzelnick S, Mondello T, Pener-Tessler A, Eu D, El-Sayes A, Ding L, Chen J, Douglas CM, Weersink R, Muhanna N, Zheng G, Irish JC

Cancer research communications20249 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.crc-23-0269 PMID: 38421899

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Sharon Tzelnick

Research

Latest papers

Dental Rehabilitation of the Scapular Tip in Maxillary Reconstruction.

Complication Rates Associated With Evolving Practice Patterns in Vasopressor Use and Fluid Administration for Oral Cavity Cancer Free Flap Reconstruction.

Evaluation of Machine Learning and Statistical Models for Predicting Long Term Gastrostomy Tube Dependency in Patients Undergoing Major Oral Cavity Cancer Surgery With Free Flap Reconstruction.

Porphyrin-lipid nanotheranostics for multimodal imaging of nodal disease in preclinical oral cancers.

Investigating the impact of margins on the management of oropharyngeal cancer treated with transoral robotic surgery: a survey of head and neck oncologists' treatment patterns.

Deep learning-enabled fluorescence imaging for oral cancer margin classification in preclinical models

Cutaneous photosensitivity of phototheranostic porphyrin-lipid nanoparticles.

PET-CT Test Properties for HPV Positive Unknown Primary of the Neck: A FIND Trial Correlative Study.

Applications for Circulating Cell-Free DNA in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Non-Invasive Approach for Detecting Structural Variants, Fusions, and Oncoviruses.

Nanoparticle-mediated Photodynamic Therapy as a Method to Ablate Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Preclinical Models.

Frequent collaborators

Christopher Yao

Jonathan Irish

Ali Hosni

David Goldstein

Gang Zheng

Ezra Hahn

Danny Enepekides

Antoine Eskander

Brian Wilson

Robert Weersink

Eugene Yu

Ur Metser

Brian O'Sullivan

Ralph Gilbert

Patrick Gullane

Dale Brown

Michael Au

John Lee

Han Zhang

Frank Rudzicz

Anna Spreafico

Scott Bratman