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Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University of Alabama Birmingham
Anthony Morlandt, M.D., D.D.S., FACS
Dr. Morlandt was born and raised in Floresville, Texas and graduated from Baylor University. He completed his DDS magna cum laude at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, Texas, and received his MD and internship and residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Dr. Morlandt then went on to complete a fellowship in head and neck oncology and microsurgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville, Florida. He returned to Birmingham where he currently serves as Chief of the Section of Oral Oncology within the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at UAB Medicine and is a full time academic head and neck surgeon. He is Director of the Head and Neck Oncology Fellowship program at UAB. Dr. Morlandt is a Scientist in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, studying malignant transformation of oral dysplastic (precancerous) lesions, fluorescent imaging in head and neck tumors, and medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaws. In 2015, Dr. Morlandt received the AAOMS Faculty Educator Development Award and has been inducted into the American Head and Neck Society and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Dr. Morlandt specializes in oral oncology, head and neck microvascular surgery, and oral and maxillofacial surgery. He has authored several peer-reviewed scientific articles and textbook chapters on head and neck ablative and reconstructive surgery. He is particularly interested in helping doctors and their staff identify head and neck cancers and in optimizing patient outcomes following major head and neck surgery.