Mehran Yusuf is an assistant professor in the department of radiation oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the department section chief for head and neck cancers and cutaneous malignancies. Within the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, he serves as the melanoma/sarcoma cancer management team lead and co-chairs both the head and neck and melanoma/sarcoma research working groups. Nationally, he serves on the NCCN skin cancers excluding melanoma panel, and is actively engaged with NRG. Internationally, he is actively engaged with MASC (Australia and New Zealand's Melanoma and Skin Cancer collaborative trials group) and AMIGO (Australasian Merkel Cell Carcinoma interest group). His interests include clinical trial development, utilizing specialized radiotherapy techniques including spatial fractionation/biologic dose escalation, and exploring combinatorial therapeutic approaches to improve outcomes including QOL for patients with both mucosal and cutaneous head and neck malignancies.