Biography
Jessica Gosnell, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery. Dr. Gosnell earned her BA in Biology and French Studies at Wellesley College, and her medical degree at the University of Washington in Seattle. She then completed a residency in general surgery at the UCSF-East Bay program. She received a Gastrointestinal Research Training Grant from the National Institutes of Health as a research fellow at San Francisco General Hospital (now Zuckerberg San Francisco General). She thereafter was appointed the TS Reeve International Fellow in Endocrine Surgery at the University of Sydney in Australia, later joining the Department of Surgery faculty at UCSF.
Dr. Gosnell’s clinical practice in endocrine surgery focuses on diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands. She is one of the founding members of the Acute Surgical Case Service at Parnassus. She is also the Director of the Endocrine Surgery Parathyroid Cryopreservation and Autotransplantation Lab. In her research, Dr. Gosnell studies new treatments for thyroid cancer through translational work and clinical trials, with a particular focus on multiple endocrine neoplasia and medullary thyroid cancer.
Dr. Gosnell is also Associate Surgery Clerkship Director to which she brings a wealth of experience in mentorship and surgical education. As a resident, she received the Hunicutt Resident Award for Excellence in Teaching for two consecutive years. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Haile T Debas Academy of Medical Educators teaching award. She was a longtime PISCES preceptor before becoming a UCSF School of Medicine Bridges Coach in 2016. As clinical educators, Coaches provide formal instruction in clinical skills as well as mentorship and support to a small group of students throughout their medical school curriculum.
Dr. Gosnell’s clinical practice in endocrine surgery focuses on diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands. She is one of the founding members of the Acute Surgical Case Service at Parnassus. She is also the Director of the Endocrine Surgery Parathyroid Cryopreservation and Autotransplantation Lab. In her research, Dr. Gosnell studies new treatments for thyroid cancer through translational work and clinical trials, with a particular focus on multiple endocrine neoplasia and medullary thyroid cancer.
Dr. Gosnell is also Associate Surgery Clerkship Director to which she brings a wealth of experience in mentorship and surgical education. As a resident, she received the Hunicutt Resident Award for Excellence in Teaching for two consecutive years. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Haile T Debas Academy of Medical Educators teaching award. She was a longtime PISCES preceptor before becoming a UCSF School of Medicine Bridges Coach in 2016. As clinical educators, Coaches provide formal instruction in clinical skills as well as mentorship and support to a small group of students throughout their medical school curriculum.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of Washington | M.D. | School of Medicine | 1995 |
University of California, San Francisco | Clinical Fellowship | School of Medicine - Surgery |
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery, 2004
Clinical Expertise
Adrenal Tumors
Adrenocortical Carcinoma
Conn's Syndrome
Cushing's Syndrome
Gastrointestinal Surgery
Hyperparathyroidism
Hyperthyroidism
Adrenalectomy
Parathyroidectomy
Thyroidectomy
Multinodular Goiter
Neuroendocrine (Islet Cell) Tumors
Pheochromocytoma
Thyroid Cancer
Thyroid Nodules
In the News
April, 12, 2018 | UCSF Department of Surgery
February, 16, 2018 | UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 98
- Nerve monitoring in endocrine surgery: Practice patterns differ among surgeons for parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy.| | View in PubMed
- Orlo H. Clark, MD (1941-2022).| View in PubMed
- Recovery After Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: How Do Our Patients Really Feel?| | View in PubMed
- Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical support team: Lessons learned after piloting a near peer support program for medical students during their core surgery clerkship.| | View in PubMed
- Endocrine surgeons are performing more thyroid lobectomies for low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer since the 2015 ATA guidelines.| | View in PubMed
- Third year medical student knowledge gaps after a virtual surgical rotation.| | View in PubMed
- Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Web-Based Survey of Thyroid Cancer Survivors.| | View in PubMed
- Ex Vivo Intact Tissue Analysis Reveals Alternative Calcium-sensing Behaviors in Parathyroid Adenomas.| | View in PubMed
- Screening for Primary Aldosteronism is Underutilized in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.| | View in PubMed
- A cost-utility analysis of 18F-fluorocholine-positron emission tomography imaging for localizing primary hyperparathyroidism in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Bursting the Hidden Curriculum Bubble: A Surgical Near-Peer Mentorship Pilot Program for URM Medical Students.| | View in PubMed
- Implications of radiofrequency ablation in patients undergoing thyroid surgery for benign disease in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Superior sensitivity of 18F-fluorocholine: PET localization in primary hyperparathyroidism.| | View in PubMed
- Screening for primary aldosteronism in the hypertensive obstructive sleep apnea population is cost-saving.| | View in PubMed
- Accuracy of the Lymph Node Yield in Surgery for Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Children.| | View in PubMed
- Paying it forward: A pilot program for near-peer support for medical students during the surgery clerkship.| | View in PubMed
- Accuracy of 18F-Fluorocholine PET for the Detection of Parathyroid Adenomas: Prospective Single-Center Study.| | View in PubMed
- Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing Medical Students' Surgery Clerkship Preparedness During COVID-19.| | View in PubMed
- Intraoperative nerve monitoring is associated with a lower risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury: A national analysis of 17,610 patients.| | View in PubMed
- Surgery Clerkship Curriculum Changes at an Academic Institution during the COVID-19 Pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in Children.| | View in PubMed
- The Influence of Cosmetic Concerns on Patient Preferences for Approaches to Thyroid Lobectomy: A Discrete Choice Experiment.| | View in PubMed
- Postoperative Hypoparathyroidism After Total Thyroidectomy in Children.| | View in PubMed
- Geographic influences in the global rise of thyroid cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Technical Innovation in Transoral Endoscopic Endocrine Surgery: A Modified "Scarless" Technique.| | View in PubMed
- Case report of a neuroendocrine tumor of the thyroid gland with limited calcitonin expression: a diagnostic challenge.| | View in PubMed
- Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use After Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery-A Pilot, Prospective SMS-Based Survey.| | View in PubMed
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for metastatic disease: Retrospective cohort with long-term, comprehensive follow-up.| | View in PubMed
- Trends in Adrenal Surgery-The Changing Nature of Tumors and Patients.| | View in PubMed
- Risk Factors Associated With Perioperative Complications and Prolonged Length of Stay After Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy.| | View in PubMed
- Patient Frailty Should Be Used to Individualize Treatment Decisions in Primary Hyperparathyroidism.| | View in PubMed
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Transoral and Submental Thyroidectomy as a Compelling Alternative to "Scarless" Thyroidectomy.| | View in PubMed
- Association of Patient Frailty With Increased Morbidity After Common Ambulatory General Surgery Operations.| | View in PubMed
- Recombinant Parathyroid Hormone Versus Usual Care: Do the Outcomes Justify the Cost?| | View in PubMed
- Trends of genetic screening in patients with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: 15-year experience in a high-volume tertiary referral center.| | View in PubMed
- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma-We Should Do Better.| | View in PubMed
- Less is more: cost-effectiveness analysis of surveillance strategies for small, nonfunctional, radiographically benign adrenal incidentalomas.| | View in PubMed
- Squamous differentiation in papillary thyroid carcinoma: a rare feature of aggressive disease.| | View in PubMed
- Improvement of TNM Staging for Medullary Thyroid Cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Incidental positive lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid cancer is independently associated with recurrent disease.| | View in PubMed
- 18F Fluorocholine PET/MR Imaging in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Inconclusive Conventional Imaging: A Prospective Pilot Study.| | View in PubMed
- De novo thyroid cancer following solid organ transplantation-A 25-year experience at a high-volume institution with a review of the literature.| | View in PubMed
- Diagnostic performance of computed tomography for parathyroid adenoma localization; a systematic review and meta-analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Unilateral Clearance for Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Selected Patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1.| | View in PubMed
- Resection of Pheochromocytoma Improves Diabetes Mellitus in the Majority of Patients.| | View in PubMed
- Application of the new American Thyroid Association guidelines leads to a substantial rate of completion total thyroidectomy to enable adjuvant radioactive iodine.| | View in PubMed
- Cost-effectiveness of active surveillance versus hemithyroidectomy for micropapillary thyroid cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Incidence, Risk Factors, and Clinical Outcomes of Incidental Parathyroidectomy During Thyroid Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- PRE-ABLATION THYROGLOBULIN AND THYROGLOBULIN TO THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE RATIO MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH PULMONARY METASTASES IN CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER.| | View in PubMed
- Are there disparities in the presentation, treatment and outcomes of patients diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer?-An analysis of 634 patients from the California Cancer Registry.| | View in PubMed
- Frequency of High-Risk Characteristics Requiring Total Thyroidectomy for 1-4 cm Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Use of PET tracers for parathyroid localization: a systematic review and meta-analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Microscopic Positive Tumor Margin Does Not Increase the Risk of Recurrence in Patients with T1-T2 Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Diagnostic utility of data from adrenal venous sampling for primary aldosteronism despite failed cannulation of the right adrenal vein.| | View in PubMed
- Differences Between Bilateral Adrenal Incidentalomas and Unilateral Lesions.| | View in PubMed
- The underestimated risk of cancer in patients with multinodular goiters after a benign fine needle aspiration.| | View in PubMed
- Prognostic significance of extranodal extension of regional lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Unanticipated thyroid cancer in patients with substernal goiters: are we underestimating the risk?| | View in PubMed
- Utility of serum thyroglobulin measurements after prophylactic thyroidectomy in patients with hereditary medullary thyroid cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Adrenalectomy outcomes are superior with the participation of residents and fellows.| | View in PubMed
- Ultrasound-guided methylene blue dye injection for parathyroid localization in the reoperative neck.| | View in PubMed
- Vandetanib and the management of advanced medullary thyroid cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of race on intraoperative parathyroid hormone kinetics: an analysis of 910 patients undergoing parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism.| | View in PubMed
- Practice patterns and job satisfaction in fellowship-trained endocrine surgeons.| | View in PubMed
- Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography scan-positive recurrent papillary thyroid cancer and the prognosis and implications for surgical management.| | View in PubMed
- Successful localization of recurrent thyroid cancer in reoperative neck surgery using ultrasound-guided methylene blue dye injection.| | View in PubMed
- A population-based prospective cohort study of complications after thyroidectomy in the elderly.| | View in PubMed
- Extent of surgery for papillary thyroid cancer: preoperative imaging and role of prophylactic and therapeutic neck dissection.| | View in PubMed
- Parathyroid carcinoma: a 43-year outcome and survival analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Medullary Thyroid Cancer: It is a pain in the neck?| | View in PubMed
- Primary hyperparathyroidism patients with positive preoperative sestamibi scan and negative ultrasound are more likely to have posteriorly located upper gland adenomas (PLUGs).| | View in PubMed
- The number of needle passes affects the accuracy of parathyroid hormone assay with intraoperative parathyroid aspiration.| | View in PubMed
- Adrenal incidentaloma: does an adequate workup rule out surprises?| | View in PubMed
- Vandetanib for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic hereditary medullary thyroid cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Clinical spectrum of pheochromocytoma.| | View in PubMed
- Hemolysis falsely decreases intraoperative parathyroid hormone levels.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical approaches to thyroid tumors.| | View in PubMed
- Technique for placement of lumboperitoneal catheters using a combined laparoscopic procedure with the Seldinger micropuncture technique.| | View in PubMed
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma manifesting as an ovarian mass: case report and review of literature.| | View in PubMed
- The future of general surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Round ligament varices: sonographic appearance in pregnancy.| | View in PubMed
- The surgical hospitalist: a new solution for emergency surgical care?| | View in PubMed
- The surgical hospitalist: a new model for emergency surgical care.| | View in PubMed
- Exporting excellence for Whipple resection to refine the Leapfrog Initiative.| | View in PubMed
- New era: prophylactic surgery for patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia-2a.| | View in PubMed
- Lymphadenectomy for papillary thyroid cancer: changes in practice over four decades.| | View in PubMed
- Inadvertent tracheal perforation during thyroidectomy.| | View in PubMed
- Experience of prophylactic thyroidectomy in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A kindreds with RET codon 804 mutations.| | View in PubMed
- The role of a more extensive surgical approach in the initial multimodality management of papillary thyroid cancer in children.| | View in PubMed
- Novel technique for placement of hemodialysis catheters using a combined open procedure with the Seldinger micropuncture technique.| | View in PubMed
- Minimal access thyroid surgery: technique and report of the first 25 cases.| | View in PubMed
- Parathyroidectomy for tertiary hyperparathyroidism associated with X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets.| | View in PubMed
- Chylomicron-bound endotoxin selectively inhibits NF-kappaB activation in rat hepatocytes.| | View in PubMed
- The Mann-Williamson procedure: a historical contribution.| | View in PubMed
- Cinematic nuclear scintigraphy reliably directs surgical intervention for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.| | View in PubMed
- Extracellular matrix regulates the hepatocellular heat shock response.| | View in PubMed
- The lipemia of sepsis: triglyceride-rich lipoproteins as agents of innate immunity.| | View in PubMed