Clinicn Investigator, Assc Prf Surgery, Mass General Research Institute

Associate Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School

Visiting Surgeon Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD University of Michigan Medical School 2001

MPH Harvard School of Public Health 2012

adenoma; adrenal disease; biopsy fine-needle; calcitonin; carcinoma; carcinoma papillary; four-dimensional computed tomography; gene expression profiling; hyperaldosteronism; hyperparathyroidism primary; hyperthyroidism; proto-oncogene proteins b-raf; technetium tc 99m sestamibi; thyroid cancer; thyroid neoplasms; thyroid nodule; thyroidectomy

In addition to her clinical practice which focuses on both benign and malignant thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease, Dr. Cunningham leads a health-services research laboratory.  Her primary research focus has been on defining the clinical and economic impact of interventions in endocrine diseases. She is funded through an NIH-NCI R37 (R01-type, early-stage investigator merit award) utilizing microsimulation modeling of thyroid nodules and cancer to compare standard versus alternate management strategies on health and economic outcomes.  The focus of her American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant is in the development of a health-related quality of life insturment useful for comparative effectiveness of patients with thyroid cancer.