Complementary Skill Sets

Complementary Skill Sets in Endocrine Surgery

Each member of our surgical team possesses the core skill set in endocrine surgery: expertise in thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal surgery, honed by decades of intensive training and real- world experience. Beyond this, each one of us brings unique strength areas.

Dr. Masha Livhits is one of the most prolific adrenal surgeons in the United States. A known national expert in endoscopic (laparoscopic and retroperitoneoscopic) adrenalectomy as well as the often complex pre-operative evaluation of patients with adrenal tumors, she was invited to co-author the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for Adrenalectomy in 2022.

Dr. James Wu under went subspecialty training in Complex Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2019. Dr. Wu’s expertise is therefore essential to operations performed at our center for aggressive thyroid cancer that has invaded neighboring organs or spread to regional lymph nodes.

Dr. Michael Yeh, the senior member of our team, is nationally and internationally recognized for his work on primary hyperparathyroidism, thyroid nodules, and thyroid cancer. Functioning as both player and coach, Dr. Yeh is one of the most experienced parathyroid surgeons in the country and devotes much of his effort toward the management of the most difficult cases that are referred to the Endocrine Center. High complexity cases usually consist of re-operations in patients who have had failed thyroid or parathyroid surgery in the past or patients whose thyroid cancers have recurred. From day to day, Drs. Livhits, Wu, and Yeh function as a cohesive, high-performing team. We often scrub together on difficult cases, giving our patients the benefit of our shared expertise.