Susan Mandel, MD, MPH
Associate Scholar
- Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- South Africa
- Cancer epidemiology | Diabetes | Endocrinology | Thyroid Cancer
Languages: English
BIO STATEMENT
Dr. Susan J. Mandel, MD, MPH—Sylvan H Eisman Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Her clinical practice focuses on thyroid neoplasia. Her research interests include sonography in the evaluation of patients with thyroid nodules and cancer. Dr. Mandel was on the writing groups for the 3 previous versions of the ATA Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer and is co-chairing the 2024 ATA Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid nodules. She also was on the writing group for the ATA and Endocrine Society guidelines on the Management of Thyroid Disorders during Pregnancy. Dr. Mandel initiated and directed the Ultrasound workshops for the ATA and Endocrine Society. Dr. Mandel has received the Endocrine Society's Distinguished Educator Award, the 2019 ATA WIT Woman of the Year award, and the AACE H. Jack Baskin Endocrine Teaching Award. She also received the Louis Duhring Outstanding Clinical Specialist Award from Penn Medicine.
Dr. Mandel is past President of the Endocrine Society (2018-19) and of the Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism (2009-2011). She currently serves as Secretary of the International Society of Endocrinology. During her 21 year tenure as Program Director of the Fellowship program at Penn, she trained over 70 fellows, 8 of whom now serve as Endocrine Fellowship Program Directors. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and the Annals of Internal Medicine. She has also authored chapters on thyroid disorders in Harrison’s Textbook of Medicine and thyroid nodules in Werner and Ingbar’s The Thyroid.
Recent Global Health Projects
My focus is on thyroid neoplasia. In partnership with colleagues at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, I worked with a multidisciplinary team (endocrinologists, radiologists, surgeons, pathologists) to initiate a US-guided thyroid biopsy clinic and multidisciplinary team rounds for thyroid cancer patients.
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Last Updated: 11 December 2024