RandallDavidGazMDFACS, FACE

General Surgery • Boston, MA

Endocrine

Department of Surgery Endocrine Surgery Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114

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Office
15 Parkman St
Ambulatory Care Center, Suite 460
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-3510

Fax+1 617-724-3951
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Education & Training

Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, 1981 - 1983
Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Surgery, 1977 - 1981
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1977

Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 1978 - 2019

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow (FACE) American Association of Clinical Endocrinology
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

13 citations
The Truth about Double Adenomas: Incidence, Localization, and Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone
Lucia De Gregorio, Carrie C. Lubitz, Richard A. Hodin, Randall D. Gaz, Sareh Parangi, Roy Phitayakorn, Antonia E. Stephen> ;Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2016 Jun 1
1 citations
Continuous positive airway pressure with pressure support ventilation is effective in treating acute-onset bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy.
Yiuka Leung, Karim Fikry, Bhavika Shah, Manokanth Madapu, Randall D. Gaz, Lisa Leffert, Yandong Jiang> ;A & A Case Reports. 2015 Jun 1
58 citations
Pediatric thyroidectomy in a high volume thyroid surgery center: Risk factors for postoperative hypocalcemia.
Yufei Chen, Peter T. Masiakos, Randall D. Gaz, Richard A. Hodin, Sareh Parangi, Gregory W. Randolph, Peter M. Sadow, Antonia E. Stephen> ;Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2015 Aug 1
5 citations
Primary hyperparathyroidism after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
Yufei Chen, Carrie C. Lubitz, Scott A. Shikora, Richard A. Hodin, Randall D. Gaz, Francis D. Moore, Travis J. McKenzie> ;Obesity Surgery. 2015 Apr 1
22 citations
Recalcitrant Hypocalcemia after Thyroidectomy in Patients with Previous Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Travis J. McKenzie, Yufei Chen, Richard A. Hodin, Scott A. Shikora, Matthew M. Hutter, Randall D. Gaz, Francis D. Moore, Carrie C. Lubitz> ;Surgery. 2013 Dec 1
18 citations
Surgery for Graves' disease: a 25-year perspective.
Roy Phitayakorn, Dieter Morales-Garcia, Jonathan P. Wanderer, Carrie C. Lubitz, Randall D. Gaz, Antonia E. Stephen, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, Gilbert H. Daniels, Richard A. ...> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2013 Nov 1
46 citations
BRAFV600E status adds incremental value to current risk classification systems in predicting papillary thyroid carcinoma recurrence
Jason D. Prescott, Peter M. Sadow, Richard A. Hodin, Long P. Le, Randall D. Gaz, Gregory W. Randolph, Antonia E. Stephen, Sareh Parangi, Gilbert H. Daniels, Carrie C. ...> ;Surgery. 2012 Dec 1
29 citations
Diagnostic Yield of Nondiagnostic Thyroid Nodules Is Not Altered by Timing of Repeat Biopsy
Carrie C. Lubitz, Sushruta S. Nagarkatti, William C. Faquin, Anthony E. Samir, Maria Hassan, Giuseppe Barbesino, Douglas S. Ross, Gregory W. Randolph, Randall D. Gaz, ...> ;Thyroid. 2012 Jun 5
43 citations
Preoperative basal calcitonin and tumor stage correlate with postoperative calcitonin normalization in patients undergoing initial surgical management of medullary thy...
Dana T. Yip, Maria Hassan, Kalliopi Pazaitou-Panayiotou, Daniel T. Ruan, Atul A. Gawande, Randall D. Gaz, Francis D. Moore, Richard A. Hodin, Antonia E. Stephen, Peter...> ;Surgery. 2011 Dec 1
1 citations
High Radioactive Iodine Uptake Despite a Fully Suppressed TSH in a Patient with Thyroid Cancer
Nikolaos Stathatos, Randall D. Gaz, Douglas S. Ross, Gilbert H. Daniels> ;The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2011 Mar 1
73 citations
Accuracy of 4-dimensional computed tomography in poorly localized patients with primary hyperparathyroidism.
Carrie C. Lubitz, George J. Hunter, Leena Hamberg, Sareh Parangi, Daniel Ruan, Atul A. Gawande, Randall D. Gaz, Gregory W. Randolph, Francis D. Moore, Richard A. Hodin...> ;Surgery. 2010 Dec 1
13 citations
Surgical drains can be safely avoided in lateral neck dissections for papillary thyroid cancer.
Michal Mekel, Antonia E. Stephen, Randall D. Gaz, Gregory W. Randolph, Sara L. Richer, Zvi H. Perry, Carrie C. Lubitz, Matthew A. Nehs, Sareh Parangi, Richard A. Hodin> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2010 Apr 1
46 citations
Clinical and Cytological Features Predictive of Malignancy in Thyroid Follicular Neoplasms
Carrie C. Lubitz, William C. Faquin, Jingyun Yang, Michal Mekel, Randall D. Gaz, Sareh Parangi, Gregory W. Randolph, Richard A. Hodin, Antonia E. Stephen> ;Thyroid. 2010 Jan 12
42 citations
Thyroid surgery in octogenarians is associated with higher complication rates
Michal Mekel, Antonia E. Stephen, Randall D. Gaz, Zvi H. Perry, Richard A. Hodin, Sareh Parangi> ;Surgery. 2009 Nov 1
30 citations
Histopathologic and clinical features of medullary microcarcinoma and C-cell hyperplasia in prophylactic thyroidectomies for medullary carcinoma: a study of 42 cases.
Demet Etit, William C. Faquin, Randall D. Gaz, Gregory W. Randolph, Ronald A. DeLellis, Ben Z. Pilch> ;Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 2008 Nov 1
47 citations
Predictors of an accurate preoperative sestamibi scan for single-gland parathyroid adenomas.
Antonia E. Stephen, Sanford I. Roth, David W. Fardo, Dianne M. Finkelstein, Gregory W. Randolph, Randall D. Gaz, Richard A. Hodin> ;Archives of Surgery. 2007 Apr 1
379 citations
Somatic and Germ-Line Mutations of the HRPT2 Gene in Sporadic Parathyroid Carcinoma
Trisha M. Shattuck, Stiina Välimäki, Takao Obara, Randall D. Gaz, Orlo H. Clark, Dolores M. Shoback, Margaret E. Wierman, Katsuyoshi Tojo, Christiane M. Robbins, John ...> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2003 Oct 30
40 citations
Mutational analyses of RB and BRCA2 as candidate tumour suppressor genes in parathyroid carcinoma
Trisha M. Shattuck, Teresa S. Kim, Jessica Costa, David W. Yandell, Yasuo Imanishi, Nallasivam Palanisamy, Randall D. Gaz, Dolores M. Shoback, Orlo H. Clark, John M. M...> ;Clinical Endocrinology. 2003 Aug 1
133 citations
The effect of surgery and radiotherapy on outcome of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.
Jean-Pierre E. N. Pierie, Alona Muzikansky, Randall D. Gaz, William C. Faquin, Mark J. Ott> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2002 Jan 1
26 citations
A novel, noninvasive imaging technique for intraoperative assessment of parathyroid glands: Confocal reflectance microscopy
W. Matthew White, Gary J. Tearney, Ben Z. Pilch, Richard L. Fabian, R. Rox Anderson, Randall D. Gaz> ;Surgery. 2000 Dec 1
8 citations
RAD51 as a candidate parathyroid tumour suppressor gene on chromosome 15q: absence of somatic mutations
Tobias Carling, Yasuo Imanishi, Randall D. Gaz, Andrew Arnold> ;Clinical Endocrinology. 1999 Oct 1
11 citations
Analysis of the RAD54 gene on chromosome 1p as a potential tumor-suppressor gene in parathyroid adenomas
Tobias Carling, Yasuo Imanishi, Randall D. Gaz, Andrew Arnold> ;International Journal of Cancer. 1999 Sep 24
27 citations
Parathyroid tumor suppressor on 1p : Analysis of the p18 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor gene as a candidate
Hideki Tahara, Alison P. Smith, Randall D. Gaz, Maimoona A. Zariwala, Yue Xiong, Andrew Arnold> ;Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 1997 Sep 1
33 citations
Loss of chromosome arm 9p DNA and analysis of the p16 and p15 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor genes in human parathyroid adenomas.
Hideki Tahara, Alison P. Smith, Randall D. Gaz, Andrew Arnold> ;The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 1996 Oct 1
112 citations
Genomic Localization of Novel Candidate Tumor Suppressor Gene Loci in Human Parathyroid Adenomas
Hideki Tahara, Alison P. Smith, Randall D. Gaz, Vincent L. Cryns, Andrew Arnold> ;Cancer Research. 1996 Feb 1
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