ENDOCRINE SURGERY - Key Persons
Boulware LE, Ratner LE, Sosa JA, Cooper LA, LaVeist TA, Powe NR| 2002-05-27| View in PubMed
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- Chief of the Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic
Dr. Carlos Corvera is chief of the Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery Program at UCSF Medical Center and a cancer surgeon at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. His expertise includes the diagnosis and treatment of malignant as well as benign diseases of the liver, bile ducts, gallbladder and pancreas. He specializes in complex conventional surgical procedures yet has also developed innovations in laparoscopic (minimally invasive) surgical techniques for the liver and pancreas.
In his research, Corvera focuses on the mechanisms that underlie inflammation, thickening and scarring in the biliary tract.
Corvera graduated from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He completed a residency in general surgery at UCSF. At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, he completed a clinical fellowship in surgical oncology as well as a fellowship in hepatobiliary surgery.
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- General and Endocrine Surgeon / VA Palo Alto Medical Center
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Claire E. Graves, M.D. received her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and completed her General Surgery residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. During residency, she spent two years as a research fellow in pediatric surgery and surgical innovation at UCSF. She is currently a clinical fellow in Endocrine Surgery. Research interests include diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal, as well as surgical innovation and device development.
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- World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Professor
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- New Assistant Editor for Visual Abstracts and Social Media to Our Leadership Team
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- Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division
- Associate Surgery Clerkship Director
- Named Associate Surgery Clerkship Director
- Professor of Surgery / Division of Surgical Oncology / Associate Director, UCSF Surgery Clerkship Program
- Was the "Distinguished International Visiting Professor"
Jessica Gosnell, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery. Dr. Gosnell earned her BA in Biology and French Studies at Wellesley College, and her medical degree at the University of Washington in Seattle. She then completed a residency in general surgery at the UCSF-East Bay program. She received a Gastrointestinal Research Training Grant from the National Institutes of Health as a research fellow at San Francisco General Hospital (now Zuckerberg San Francisco General). She thereafter was appointed the TS Reeve International Fellow in Endocrine Surgery at the University of Sydney in Australia, later joining the Department of Surgery faculty at UCSF.
Dr. Gosnell's clinical practice in endocrine surgery focuses on diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands. She is one of the founding members of the Acute Surgical Case Service at Parnassus. She is also the Director of the Endocrine Surgery Parathyroid Cryopreservation and Autotransplantation Lab. In her research, Dr. Gosnell studies new treatments for thyroid cancer through translational work and clinical trials, with a particular focus on multiple endocrine neoplasia and medullary thyroid cancer.
Dr. Gosnell is also Associate Surgery Clerkship Director to which she brings a wealth of experience in mentorship and surgical education. As a resident, she received the Hunicutt Resident Award for Excellence in Teaching for two consecutive years. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Haile T Debas Academy of Medical Educators teaching award. She was a longtime PISCES preceptor before becoming a UCSF School of Medicine Bridges Coach in 2016. As clinical educators, Coaches provide formal instruction in clinical skills as well as mentorship and support to a small group of students throughout their medical school curriculum.
Dr. Gosnell plays a vital role as a dedicated member of the American Thyroid Association task force
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator
- Co - PI on Multi - Institutional NIH - FDA R01 Grant Seeking to Understand the Natural History of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma to Inform Better Treatments
- Sosa / MD, MA, FACS, FSSO / Chair, Department of Surgery
Dr. Julie Ann Sosa is presented with the Distinguished Service Award by the American Thyroid Association
Dr. Sosa has served as principal investigator on a number of therapeutic and correlative clinical trials, largely centered around the development of novel small molecule therapies for advanced thyroid cancer and understanding environmental risk factors for the development of the disease. She has mentored more than 70 students, residents, and fellows, and has made surgical education a focus of her science, co-directing the multi-year, prospective National Study of Expectations and Attitudes of Residents in Surgery (NEARS) in conjunction with the American Board of Surgery.
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- Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine ( ELAM ) Class of 2016
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- Research Prize for the Best Clinical Research by a House Officer or
Helen B. Taussig-Alfred Blalock Research Prize for the best clinical research by a house officer or
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- Associate Professor of Surgery / Division of Surgical Oncology / Director, Endocrine Neoplasia Research Lab
- Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF
James Koh, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF and Director of the newly established Endocrine Neoplasia Research Lab. He earned his doctorate under the direction of Dr. Francis S. Collins at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Dr. Ed Harlow's laboratory at Harvard University. Dr. Koh joined the UCSF faculty in December 2018.
Building upon his background in cellular signaling, cell cycle regulation, and tumor suppressor function, Dr. Koh's laboratory has developed a combination of molecular, murine modeling, and live-cell imaging approaches to examine the underlying mechanisms of disrupted biochemical signaling behavior in human endocrine tumors.
Recently, Dr. Koh and his research team utilized live tumor tissue functional analysis of calcium responsiveness to reveal two discrete classes of human parathyroid adenomas associated with differing patterns of clinical presentation and outcome. Towards the goal of establishing a novel dynamic functional axis of diagnostic criteria to supplement conventional tumor classification metrics, Dr. Koh will focus on the development of live-cell imaging methods for direct ex vivo provocative testing of endocrine tumor reactivity to physiological agonist engagement at single cell resolution.
James Koh, PhD, was awarded $3.8 million over five years (2023-2028) by the NIH as the principal investigator
Jina Kim, M.D. completed general surgery residency at Duke University and will be completing an endocrine surgery fellowship at UCSF. As an endocrine surgeon, she hopes to care for patients with endocrine diseases and further understanding of these disease processes through research.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Department of Surgery
- Distinguished Professor of Surgery / Professor, Department of Medicine
Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS, FSSO, is the Leon Goldman MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where she is also a Professor in the Department of Medicine and affiliated faculty for the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Dr. Sosa came to UCSF in 2018 from Duke. Her clinical interest is in endocrine surgery, with a focus in thyroid cancer. She is an NIH and FDA funded investigator and author of more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and 80 book chapters and reviews, all largely focused on outcomes research, health care delivery, hyperparathyroidism, and thyroid cancer, with a focus on clinical trials. She has authored or edited 7 books. Dr. Sosa is President of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) and serves on the Board of Directors/Executive Council of the ATA and International Thyroid Oncology Group; for the ATA, she is chairing the committee responsible for writing the next iteration of differentiated thyroid cancer guidelines. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Surgery and an editor of Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice. She has mentored more than 90 students, residents, and fellows, for which she was recognized with induction as a full member to the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Educators in 2020, and by the ATA with the Lewis E. Braverman Distinguished Lectureship Award in 2017 and its Distinguished Service Award in 2022. She received the Chancellor's Diversity Award in 2022 for the Advancement of Women at UCSF. Dr Sosa was born in Montreal and raised in upstate New York. She received her AB at Princeton, MA at Oxford, and MD at Johns Hopkins, where she completed the Halsted residency and a fellowship.
Lin JA, Pierce L, Murray SG, Soleimani H, Wick EC, Sosa JA, Hirose K| 2021-09-08| View in PubMed
Job Titles:
- Professor, Department of Surgery
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- Professor of Surgery / Chief, Section
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- Assistant Professor of Surgery / Albany Medical College
Toni Beninato, M.D. joined the Division of Endocrine Surgery for a one year clinical fellowship in July 2015. Previously, she completed General Surgery training at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical College.