Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Surgery
·
2025 - Present
Surgical Oncology,
Surgery
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
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2020 - Present
Duke Cancer Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Expenses and expectations for endocrine surgeries: A national analysis of price transparency and cost of care.
Journal Article Surgery · January 2026 BACKGROUND: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services price transparency rule aims to facilitate cost-conscious consumer decision making. However, factors mediating transparency and real-world prices for endocrine surgeries are not well described. MET ... Full text Link to item CitePrognostic Thresholds for Lymph Node Metastasis in Medullary Thyroid Cancer: A Restricted Cubic Splines Analysis.
Journal Article Thyroid · November 2025 Objectives: The current American Joint Committee on Cancer medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) staging system qualitatively stratifies lymph node (LN) status based on involved LN compartments; however, American Thyroid Association guidelines note that quantitat ... Full text Link to item CiteExploring actionable targets to address disparities in thyroid cancer survival: A study of patients with aggressive variants of papillary thyroid cancer.
Journal Article Am J Surg · October 2025 BACKGROUND: Despite compromised survival, disparities studies on aggressive variants of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) are sparse. METHODS: Using the NCDB (2004-20), adult Non-Hispanic Whites (NHW), Non-Hispanic Asians or Pacific Islanders (NHAPI), Hispani ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Characterizing neurocognitive symptoms in older adults with primary hyperparathyroidism
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2025Scaling and Spreading Electronic Capture of Patient-Reported Outcomes Using a National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American College of Surgeons · 2020 - 2022View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Yale University, School of Medicine ·
2012
M.D.
Temple University ·
2007
B.S.