Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Surgery
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2022 - Present
Surgical Oncology,
Surgery
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
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2007 - Present
Duke Cancer Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Scholarly Works
The effect of delays in cancer surgery due to the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer resectability and postoperative mortality in different tumor entities
Journal article Discover Oncology · December 1, 2026 Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, prioritization of COVID-19 patients led to delays in oncological surgery, potentially impacting patient outcomes. This analysis examines the effects of surgical delays in various tumor entities on resectability and ... Full text CiteShould patient age be incorporated into Oncocytic thyroid carcinoma staging? Evidence from SEER and NCDB.
Journal article Am J Surg · October 2026 INTRODUCTION: Age is central to differentiated thyroid cancer staging, however its relevance in oncocytic thyroid carcinoma (OTC) remains unclear. We sought to identify a prognostically meaningful age threshold for OTC. METHODS: Using SEER (2004-2022) and ... Full text Link to item CiteActive Surveillance Versus Surgery for Low-risk Well-differentiated Thyroid Cancer.
Journal article Adv Surg · September 2026 The dramatic rise in thyroid cancer incidence in recent decades is driven primarily by the detection of small, biologically indolent papillary microcarcinomas rather than a true increase in clinically significant disease. Robust long-term data now show tha ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Phase III Multicenter Randomized Trial of Sentinel Lymphadenectomy and Complete Lymph Node Dissection vs. Sentinel Lymphadenectomy Alone in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients with Molecular or Histopathological Evidence of Metastases in the Sentinel Node
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John Wayne Cancer Institute · 2014 - 2019View All Grants
Education
University of Virginia ·
1996
M.D.