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Published on April 29, 2020 by Julia Noel

Julia Noel – Palo Alto, California

Practice Contact Information

Stanford University School of Medicine
875 Blake Wilbur Drive

Palo Alto
California
94304
United States

Phone:
Email:
Web Site: https://profiles.stanford.edu/julia-noel


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery


Biography/Statement

Dr. Noel completed her undergraduate work in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and Economics at the University of California in San Diego. She remained at UCSD for medical school, then relocated to Stanford, where she completed her residency in Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery. She then pursued a fellowship in Endocrine Head & Neck Surgery at Stanford. She specializes in surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid glands, lymph node dissections, and has additional expertise and interest in advanced and recurrent thyroid cancer, minimally invasive approaches, and ultrasound guided techniques in the office.

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Published on April 18, 2020 by Amy Chen, MD, MPH, FACS

Amy Chen – Atlanta, GA

Practice Contact Information

Emory
550 Peachtree St
Medical Office Tower 1135
Atlanta
GA
30308
United States

Phone: 404-778-0278
Email:
Web Site: https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/bios/faculty/chen-amy-y.html


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Surgeon


Biography/Statement

Amy Y. Chen, MD, MPH, FACS, FACE is the William and Lillian Hackerman Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at The Emory University School of Medicine.  She serves as the Director of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery and was the Program Director for the Head and Neck Surgery Fellowship. Her expertise is in thyroid and parathyroid surgery. She has a joint appointment at Winship Cancer Institute and at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. She has also served as Director of Health Services Research in the Department of Surveillance and Health Policy Research of the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Chen has been instrumental in developing a team approach to patient care. She developed and currently leads the multidisciplinary thyroid and head and neck tumor conferences. Her primary focus of research is in measuring outcomes of oncology treatment as well as measuring determinants of successful outcomes of care.  Dr. Chen’s research agenda is to create a multi-disciplinary, multi-site center dedicated to health services research, outcomes, and quality of care.  Her secondary focus of research is directed toward translational research of head and neck and thyroid malignancies.

Dr. Chen joined the Emory faculty in 2001 after a fellowship in Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Prior to that fellowship she was a resident in Otolaryngology and General Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, also in Houston.

She is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology and holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health. Dr. Chen has received numerous awards and honors, among them the Gussack Memorial Award for Teaching, Percy Memorial Research Award, the Rande Lazar Health Services Research Award, the American Head and Neck Society Scholarship Award, and The Women’s Fund for Health, Education and Research Grant. She has also been named as one of the Top Doctors by Atlanta Magazine since 2017.  She is married and has two adult daughters.

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Published on April 8, 2020 by Ambujakshan Dildeep

Ambujakshan Dildeep – Phoenix, Arizona

Practice Contact Information

Carl T Hayden VA Medical Center
650 East Indian School Road

Phoenix
Arizona
85012
United States

Phone:
Email:
Web Site:


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Surgeon, Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery


Biography/Statement

Dr Dildeep is a board certified general surgeon and fellowship trained Head and neck Oncology and Reconstructive Surgeon. Special interest  in Minimally  invasive Endocrine surgery and Robotic surgery .

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Published on April 2, 2020 by Rui Fernandes

Rui Fernandes – Jacksonville, Florida

Practice Contact Information

University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville
653 8th Street West

Jacksonville
Florida
32209
United States

Phone: 904-244-3901
Email:
Web Site:


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Surgeon, Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery


Biography/Statement

Dr. Fernandes is a Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon with Certificate of Added Qualification in Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Surgery by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.  He is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Florida and holds appointments in the Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery and the Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville.  Currently. He serves as the Chief of Head and Neck Surgery, Director of the Head and Neck/Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery fellowship, Director of the Center for Reconstructive Surgery, Co-Director of the Skull Base Surgery Program and Associate Chairman of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. Fernandes is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (ad. Hominem), as well as many other surgical and medical associations in the USA. He is an honorary fellow of the Spanish Society of OMS, the Mexican Association of OMS, Pakistan Association of OMS, the Panamanian Association of OMS, and the Costa Rican Society of OMS.

He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and has authored numerous manuscripts in the areas of head and neck oncology and reconstructive surgery as well a single author textbook Atlas of Local & Regional Flaps in Head and Neck Surgery and is co-editor of the textbook Oral, Head Neck Oncology and Reconstructive Surgery. He currently serves as the Editor of the OMS Clinics of North America, the Atlas of the OMS clinics, and the AOCMF journal, Craniomaxillofacial Trauma and Reconstruction.

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Published on March 11, 2020 by Erick Gonzales

Erick Gonzales Laguado – Lima, Lima

Practice Contact Information

Calle General Vidal 139

Lima
Lima
15074
Peru

Phone: +51961079239
Email: [email protected]
Web Site:


Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Research, Head and Neck Surgeon, Oral Surgeon


Biography/Statement

Head and Neck Surgeon, Endocrine Surgeon, Minimally Invasive Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery.

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