Posts by Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE
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Vocal Cord Paralysis Commonly Asymptomatic in Patients With Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Invasion by Thyroid Cancer
Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE, and colleagues found that only 39% of patients with recurrent laryngeal nerve invasion by thyroid carcinoma had preoperative voice complaints, and 44% of those who underwent preoperative laryngoscopy had vocal cord paralysis.
Biography
With more than 25 years of experience in otolaryngology, Dr. Gregory Randolph specializes in thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He is a Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, the Claire and John Bertucci Endowed Chair in Thyroid Surgical Oncology, and a surgeon at Mass Eye and Ear, where he also serves as the Director of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery Division. Dr. Randolph has a thyroid and parathyroid surgical practice, seeing patients and operating at both Mass Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Randolph was the first otolaryngologist member of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES), the first otolaryngologist member and council member of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES), and the first otolaryngologist and United States surgeon to be board-certified in endocrine surgery in the European Union. Alongside Dr. Henning Dralle of Germany, he founded the Global International Neural Monitoring Study Group, which has generated multiple publications and standards guidelines for neural monitoring at thyroid surgery.
With more than 155 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Randolph has focused the bulk of his research on recurrent laryngeal nerve anatomy, preservation, and monitoring during thyroid cancer surgery, with a concentration on the importance of laryngeal exams, the recognition of lymph node metastasis, and revision cancer surgery.
He has led thyroid surgical missions to St. Petersburg, Russia; Guangzhou, China; Kenya; rural India; and the Chernobyl region of the Ukraine. He founded and directs the Harvard Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Course for surgeons and has directed international surgical courses in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Russia.
Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear/Massachusetts General Hospital combines the expertise of highly specialized ear, nose, and throat physicians, audiologists, speech-language pathologists and auxiliary health care professionals to provide care for patients with problems affecting the ear, nose, throat, head and neck areas. The department, which is led by Chief and Chair Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, is one of the largest otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (OHNS) departments in the country, with more than 70 physicians staffed at 15 locations in the greater Boston area.
