Practice Contact Information
Stanford University
875 Blake Wilbur Drive
Stanford
California
94305-5826
United States
Phone: 6507361680
Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://med.stanford.edu/ohns/healthcare/headneckcenter/programs/endocrine-head-and-neck-surgery.html
Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery
Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Research, Head and Neck Surgeon
Biography/Statement
Lisa A. Orloff, MD, FACS, FACE is Director of the Endocrine Head and Neck Surgery Program and Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, at Stanford University School of Medicine. She directs the Thyroid Tumor Program within the Stanford Cancer Center, and the AHNS-Accredited Endocrine Head and Neck Surgery Fellowship at Stanford.
Dr. Orloff specializes in ultrasound applications within otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, with an emphasis on thyroid cancer. Dr. Orloff received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her residency in Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Washington and a visiting fellowship in microvascular & reconstructive Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Prior to her arrival at Stanford, she was the Robert K. Werbe Distinguished Professor in Head and Neck Cancer, and Chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF.) She holds leadership roles within the American Head and Neck Society, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Thyroid Association. She is a former Fulbright scholar.
Clinical Trials
Pending: Active Surveillance versus Immediate Surgery (AS-IS) for Low Risk Thyroid Lesions (LRTLs) (01/01/2019)
Pending: Risk Factors for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (09/01/2018)
Bibliography
Selected Publications:
-Heaton CM, Chang JL, Orloff LA. Prognostic Implications of Lymph Node Yield in Central and Lateral Neck Dissections for Well-Differentiated Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. Thyroid. 2016 Mar;26(3):434-40.
-Orloff, LA, Wiseman SM, Bernet VJ, Fahey III TJ, Shaha AR, Shindo ML, Snyder SK, Stack Jr. BC, Sunwoo JB, Wang MB. American Thyroid Association Statement on Postoperative Hypoparathyroidism: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management in Adults. Thyroid 2018 (in press)
-Agrawal N, Evasovich MR, Kandil E, Noureldine SI, Felger EA, Tufano RP, Kraus DH, Orloff LA, Angelos P, Stack BC, Jr, McIver B, Randolph GW. The Indications and Extent of Central Neck Dissection for Papillary Thyroid Cancer: An American Head and Neck Society Consensus Statement. Head and Neck. 2017 Jul;39(7):1269-1279. doi: 10.1002/hed.24715.
-Shindo ML, Caruana SM, Kandil E, McCaffrey J, Orloff LA, Porterfield J, Randolph GW, Shaha A. Management of Invasive Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: an American Head and Neck Society Consensus Statement. Head Neck. 2014 Oct;36(10):1379-90.
-Corces MR, Trevino AE, Hamilton EG, Greenside PG, Sinnott-Armstrong NA, Vesuna S, Satpathy AT, Rubin AJ, Montine KS, Wu B, Kathiria A, Cho SW, Mumbach MR, Carter AC, Kasowski M, Orloff LA, Risca VI, Kundaje A, Khavari PA, Montine TJ, Greenleaf WJ, Chang HY. An improved ATAC-seq protocol reduces background and enables interrogation of frozen tissues. Nat Methods. 2017 Oct;14(10):959-962.doi:10.1038/nmeth.4396.
-Gouveia C, Can NT, Bostrom A, Grenert JP, van Zante A, Orloff LA. Lack of Association of BRAF Mutation with Negative Prognostic Indicators in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: The University of California, San Francisco Experience. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2013 Nov;139(11):1164-70.
-Ryan WR, Orloff LA. Intraoperative Tumor Localization With Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound-Guided Needle Dye Injection. Laryngoscope 2011 Aug;121(8):1651-5
-Hwang HS, Orloff LA. Efficacy of preoperative neck ultrasound in the detection of cervical lymph node metastasis from thyroid cancer. Laryngoscope. 2011 Mar; 121(3):487-91.
-Nguyen ML, Hu J, Hastings KG, Daza EJ, Cullen MR, Orloff LA, Palaniappan LP. Thyroid Cancer Mortality is Higher in Filipinos in the United States: an Analysis using National Mortality Records from 2003 through 2012. Cancer. 2017 Sep 7.doi:10.1002/cncr.30958.