Dr. Harari is a fellowship-trained Endocrine Surgeon.  But what is Endocrine Surgery?  Why is it important to seek out an endocrine surgeon when treating these diseases?

Endocrine Surgery is the discipline of surgical management of endocrine disorders including the understanding of the disease process, technical mastery and comprehensive care of surgical endocrine disease of the neck and abdomen. It is a subspecialty of general surgery that focuses predominantly on diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands.

Endocrine surgeons are experts in both the surgical and medical management of a variety of diseases and are uniquely trained to treat all aspects of each disease process.  As such, Endocrine Surgeons work very closely in a multidisciplinary way with endocrinologists, radiologists, oncologists, pathologists, and primary care physicians.

Endocrine surgery is a rare specialty. There are only about 280 active practitioners in the United States and an additional 150 abroad. Most of these individuals are faculty members at major universities and belong to one or both of the following professional societies:

• American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
• International Association of Endocrine Surgeons

We know that superior outcomes are achieved when endocrine operations are performed by specialists. Thus it is imperative that a patient with an endocrine disease finds an expert in the field who has done over 100 thyroidectomies/parathyroidectomies each year and over 15-30 adrenalectomies each year.

There are several surgeons in the US who have sculpted their practice and focus mainly on these types of operations.  However, recently, many surgeons are getting specialty training (such as Dr. Harari) in endocrine surgery and therefore are uniquely poised to treat these special disorders with the best outcomes.