Parathyroid Surgery: Fundamental and Advanced Concepts

About The Authors

David J. Terris, MD, FACS, is the Porubsky Distinguished Professor, as well as chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology and surgical director of the Thyroid Center at Georgia Regents University. Dr. Terris attended Cornell University for his undergraduate studies, Duke University for medical school, and completed his residency and fellowship at Stanford University—where he subsequently joined the faculty at and was promoted to associate professor with tenure. In 2002, he was recruited to the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Terris is a pioneer in robotic and minimally invasive thyroid surgery and has a busy clinical practice that is limited to thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He has more than 200 publications, with most devoted to thyroid and parathyroid topics.

William S. Duke, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Georgia Regents University (GRU). He completed his undergraduate studies at Louisiana State University (LSU) and obtained his medical degree from the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Duke completed an otolaryngology residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. After residency, he served an additional four years in the United States Army, including tenures as chief of otolaryngology during both domestic and overseas assignments. Dr. Duke went on to complete a fellowship in head and neck endocrine surgery at Georgia Regents University, where he now serves as a member of the GRU Thyroid and Parathyroid Center.

Janice Pasieka, MD, FRCSC FACS, graduated from the University of Western Ontario Medical School and completed her general surgery residency training at the University of Calgary. Following her residency, she completed three years of endocrine surgical training—a year of which under the mentorship of Dr. Norman Thompson at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Pasieka went on to study endocrine surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden under the mentorship of Dr. Bertil Hamberger. She returned to the University of Calgary and has devoted her clinical practice solely to endocrine surgical diseases. Dr. Pasieka completed a three-year term as the secretary treasurer of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and in 2010 became president of this association. She was a James IV Traveling Fellow and is currently a governor of the American College of Surgeons. Her areas of interests include neuroendocrine tumors, adrenal disease, thyroid cancer, and the study of surgical outcomes in patients with hyperparathyroidism. To date, she has more than 100 peer-review publications and 15 book chapters.