Clinical Challenges in Endocrine Surgery: Medullar Thyroid Cancer with Special Guest Dr. Kepal Patel

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🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode from the Endocrine Surgery team at BTK we invited Dr. Kepal Patel to join us to discuss two endocrine surgery cases while discussing pertinent literature. We discuss the work-up and surgical decision making for a case of medullary thyroid cancer and a Bethesda III thyroid nodule.

Dr. Kepal Patel is the Chief of the Division of Endocrine Surgery and a Professor of Surgery, Otolaryngology and Biochemistry at NYU Langone Health.

Dr. Michael Yeh is a Professor of Surgery at UCLA and serves as Section Chief of the UCLA Endocrine Surgery program which he established.

Dr. Masha Livhits is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCLA and works in the Endocrine Surgery Department

Dr. James Wu is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCLA and works in the Endocrine Surgery Department

Dr. Vivek Sant is an Endocrine Surgery Fellow at UCLA in his first year of fellowship

Dr. Rivfka Shenoy is a PGY-5 General Surgery Resident at UCLA who has completed two years of research

Dr. Max Schumm is a PGY-5 General Surgery Resident at UCLA who has completed two years of research. He is a future endocrine surgeon.

Important Papers

Miyauchi, A., Matsuzuka, F., Hirai, K., Yokozawa, T., Kobayashi, K., Ito, Y., ... & Yamaguchi, K. (2002). Prospective trial of unilateral surgery for nonhereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma in patients without germline RET mutations. World journal of surgery, 26(8), 1023-1028.

Cibas, E. S., Baloch, Z. W., Fellegara, G., LiVolsi, V. A., Raab, S. S., Rosai, J., ... & Alexander, E. K. (2013). A prospective assessment defining the limitations of thyroid nodule pathologic evaluation. Annals of internal medicine, 159(5), 325-332.

Papazian, M. R., Dublin, J. C., Patel, K. N., Oweity, T., Jacobson, A. S., Brandler, T. C., & Givi, B. (2022). Repeat Fine-Needle Aspiration With Molecular Analysis in Management of Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules. Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 01945998221093527.

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0:00.0	Behind the Night, the Surgery Podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you
0:12.0	dominate the day.
0:22.7	Welcome back to the UCLA and a chronology groups behind the knife episode.
0:26.9	We're really lucky today to have Dr. Kapal Patel as our guest here.
0:30.9	He's the Chief of the Division of Endocrine Surgery and a Professor of Surgery,
0:34.9	Otolaryngology and Biochemistry at NYU Langone.
0:38.9	For me, this is particularly exciting because I went to med school at NYU and I remember
0:42.9	scrubbing in with him and getting asked a bunch of questions about 90s rap.
0:46.9	And maybe one or two questions about Endocrine Surgery.
0:50.9	He's the Director of the Thyroid interdisciplinary program and has particular expertise
0:54.9	in the multidisciplinary treatment of thyroid and parathyroid disease,
0:58.9	along with other head and neck tumors.
1:00.9	He's also the Director of Mentoring and Faculty Development in the Department of Surgery.
1:04.9	His work has been recognized by numerous awards from prestigious societies.
1:08.9	He currently serves in multiple leadership roles both locally and nationally
1:12.9	and he's on the editorial boards of several prominent journals.
1:15.9	He has over 75 peer-reviewed publications, 12 book chapters,
1:20.9	over 40 and over 40 invited lectureships.
1:24.9	He was most recently the first author of the first AAES Comprehensive Guidelines for Thyroid Surgery.
1:30.9	Thanks for joining us here today.
1:32.9	Thank you.
1:33.9	We also have our usual casting crew, attending Dr. Yeh, Dr. Levis, Dr. Wu,
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