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
January, 10, 2020 | UCSF Department of Surgery
April, 12, 2018 | UCSF Department of Surgery
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 98
- Nerve monitoring in endocrine surgery: Practice patterns differ among surgeons for parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy.| | PubMed
- Orlo H. Clark, MD (1941-2022).| PubMed
- Recovery After Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: How Do Our Patients Really Feel?| | PubMed
- Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism.| | PubMed
- Surgical support team: Lessons learned after piloting a near peer support program for medical students during their core surgery clerkship.| | PubMed
- Endocrine surgeons are performing more thyroid lobectomies for low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer since the 2015 ATA guidelines.| | PubMed
- Third year medical student knowledge gaps after a virtual surgical rotation.| | PubMed
- Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Web-Based Survey of Thyroid Cancer Survivors.| | PubMed
- Ex Vivo Intact Tissue Analysis Reveals Alternative Calcium-sensing Behaviors in Parathyroid Adenomas.| | PubMed
- Screening for Primary Aldosteronism is Underutilized in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.| | PubMed
- A cost-utility analysis of 18F-fluorocholine-positron emission tomography imaging for localizing primary hyperparathyroidism in the United States.| | PubMed
- Bursting the Hidden Curriculum Bubble: A Surgical Near-Peer Mentorship Pilot Program for URM Medical Students.| | PubMed
- Implications of radiofrequency ablation in patients undergoing thyroid surgery for benign disease in the United States.| | PubMed
- Superior sensitivity of 18F-fluorocholine: PET localization in primary hyperparathyroidism.| | PubMed
- Screening for primary aldosteronism in the hypertensive obstructive sleep apnea population is cost-saving.| | PubMed
- Accuracy of the Lymph Node Yield in Surgery for Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Children.| | PubMed
- Paying it forward: A pilot program for near-peer support for medical students during the surgery clerkship.| | PubMed
- Accuracy of 18F-Fluorocholine PET for the Detection of Parathyroid Adenomas: Prospective Single-Center Study.| | PubMed
- Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing Medical Students' Surgery Clerkship Preparedness During COVID-19.| | PubMed
- Intraoperative nerve monitoring is associated with a lower risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury: A national analysis of 17,610 patients.| | PubMed
- Surgery Clerkship Curriculum Changes at an Academic Institution during the COVID-19 Pandemic.| | PubMed
- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in Children.| | PubMed
- The Influence of Cosmetic Concerns on Patient Preferences for Approaches to Thyroid Lobectomy: A Discrete Choice Experiment.| | PubMed
- Postoperative Hypoparathyroidism After Total Thyroidectomy in Children.| | PubMed
- Geographic influences in the global rise of thyroid cancer.| | PubMed
- Technical Innovation in Transoral Endoscopic Endocrine Surgery: A Modified "Scarless" Technique.| | PubMed
- Case report of a neuroendocrine tumor of the thyroid gland with limited calcitonin expression: a diagnostic challenge.| | PubMed
- Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use After Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery-A Pilot, Prospective SMS-Based Survey.| | PubMed
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for metastatic disease: Retrospective cohort with long-term, comprehensive follow-up.| | PubMed
- Trends in Adrenal Surgery-The Changing Nature of Tumors and Patients.| | PubMed
- Risk Factors Associated With Perioperative Complications and Prolonged Length of Stay After Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy.| | PubMed
- Patient Frailty Should Be Used to Individualize Treatment Decisions in Primary Hyperparathyroidism.| | PubMed
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Transoral and Submental Thyroidectomy as a Compelling Alternative to "Scarless" Thyroidectomy.| | PubMed
- Association of Patient Frailty With Increased Morbidity After Common Ambulatory General Surgery Operations.| | PubMed
- Recombinant Parathyroid Hormone Versus Usual Care: Do the Outcomes Justify the Cost?| | PubMed
- Trends of genetic screening in patients with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: 15-year experience in a high-volume tertiary referral center.| | PubMed
- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma-We Should Do Better.| | PubMed
- Less is more: cost-effectiveness analysis of surveillance strategies for small, nonfunctional, radiographically benign adrenal incidentalomas.| | PubMed
- Squamous differentiation in papillary thyroid carcinoma: a rare feature of aggressive disease.| | PubMed
- Improvement of TNM Staging for Medullary Thyroid Cancer.| | PubMed
- Incidental positive lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid cancer is independently associated with recurrent disease.| | PubMed
- 18F Fluorocholine PET/MR Imaging in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Inconclusive Conventional Imaging: A Prospective Pilot Study.| | PubMed
- De novo thyroid cancer following solid organ transplantation-A 25-year experience at a high-volume institution with a review of the literature.| | PubMed
- Diagnostic performance of computed tomography for parathyroid adenoma localization; a systematic review and meta-analysis.| | PubMed
- Unilateral Clearance for Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Selected Patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1.| | PubMed
- Resection of Pheochromocytoma Improves Diabetes Mellitus in the Majority of Patients.| | PubMed
- Application of the new American Thyroid Association guidelines leads to a substantial rate of completion total thyroidectomy to enable adjuvant radioactive iodine.| | PubMed
- Cost-effectiveness of active surveillance versus hemithyroidectomy for micropapillary thyroid cancer.| | PubMed
- Incidence, Risk Factors, and Clinical Outcomes of Incidental Parathyroidectomy During Thyroid Surgery.| | PubMed
- PRE-ABLATION THYROGLOBULIN AND THYROGLOBULIN TO THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE RATIO MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH PULMONARY METASTASES IN CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER.| | 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.| | PubMed
- Frequency of High-Risk Characteristics Requiring Total Thyroidectomy for 1-4 cm Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.| | PubMed
- Use of PET tracers for parathyroid localization: a systematic review and meta-analysis.| | PubMed
- Microscopic Positive Tumor Margin Does Not Increase the Risk of Recurrence in Patients with T1-T2 Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.| | PubMed
- Diagnostic utility of data from adrenal venous sampling for primary aldosteronism despite failed cannulation of the right adrenal vein.| | PubMed
- Differences Between Bilateral Adrenal Incidentalomas and Unilateral Lesions.| | PubMed
- The underestimated risk of cancer in patients with multinodular goiters after a benign fine needle aspiration.| | PubMed
- Prognostic significance of extranodal extension of regional lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer.| | PubMed
- Unanticipated thyroid cancer in patients with substernal goiters: are we underestimating the risk?| | PubMed
- Utility of serum thyroglobulin measurements after prophylactic thyroidectomy in patients with hereditary medullary thyroid cancer.| | PubMed
- Adrenalectomy outcomes are superior with the participation of residents and fellows.| | PubMed
- Ultrasound-guided methylene blue dye injection for parathyroid localization in the reoperative neck.| | PubMed
- Vandetanib and the management of advanced medullary thyroid cancer.| | PubMed
- Impact of race on intraoperative parathyroid hormone kinetics: an analysis of 910 patients undergoing parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism.| | PubMed
- Practice patterns and job satisfaction in fellowship-trained endocrine surgeons.| | PubMed
- Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography scan-positive recurrent papillary thyroid cancer and the prognosis and implications for surgical management.| | PubMed
- Successful localization of recurrent thyroid cancer in reoperative neck surgery using ultrasound-guided methylene blue dye injection.| | PubMed
- A population-based prospective cohort study of complications after thyroidectomy in the elderly.| | PubMed
- Extent of surgery for papillary thyroid cancer: preoperative imaging and role of prophylactic and therapeutic neck dissection.| | PubMed
- Parathyroid carcinoma: a 43-year outcome and survival analysis.| | PubMed
- Medullary Thyroid Cancer: It is a pain in the neck?| | PubMed
- Primary hyperparathyroidism patients with positive preoperative sestamibi scan and negative ultrasound are more likely to have posteriorly located upper gland adenomas (PLUGs).| | PubMed
- The number of needle passes affects the accuracy of parathyroid hormone assay with intraoperative parathyroid aspiration.| | PubMed
- Adrenal incidentaloma: does an adequate workup rule out surprises?| | PubMed
- Vandetanib for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic hereditary medullary thyroid cancer.| | PubMed
- Clinical spectrum of pheochromocytoma.| | PubMed
- Hemolysis falsely decreases intraoperative parathyroid hormone levels.| | PubMed
- Surgical approaches to thyroid tumors.| | PubMed
- Technique for placement of lumboperitoneal catheters using a combined laparoscopic procedure with the Seldinger micropuncture technique.| | PubMed
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma manifesting as an ovarian mass: case report and review of literature.| | PubMed
- The future of general surgery.| | PubMed
- Round ligament varices: sonographic appearance in pregnancy.| | PubMed
- The surgical hospitalist: a new solution for emergency surgical care?| | PubMed
- The surgical hospitalist: a new model for emergency surgical care.| | PubMed
- Exporting excellence for Whipple resection to refine the Leapfrog Initiative.| | PubMed
- New era: prophylactic surgery for patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia-2a.| | PubMed
- Lymphadenectomy for papillary thyroid cancer: changes in practice over four decades.| | PubMed
- Inadvertent tracheal perforation during thyroidectomy.| | PubMed
- Experience of prophylactic thyroidectomy in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A kindreds with RET codon 804 mutations.| | PubMed
- The role of a more extensive surgical approach in the initial multimodality management of papillary thyroid cancer in children.| | PubMed
- Novel technique for placement of hemodialysis catheters using a combined open procedure with the Seldinger micropuncture technique.| | PubMed
- Minimal access thyroid surgery: technique and report of the first 25 cases.| | PubMed
- Parathyroidectomy for tertiary hyperparathyroidism associated with X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets.| | PubMed
- Chylomicron-bound endotoxin selectively inhibits NF-kappaB activation in rat hepatocytes.| | PubMed
- The Mann-Williamson procedure: a historical contribution.| | PubMed
- Cinematic nuclear scintigraphy reliably directs surgical intervention for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.| | PubMed
- Extracellular matrix regulates the hepatocellular heat shock response.| | PubMed
- The lipemia of sepsis: triglyceride-rich lipoproteins as agents of innate immunity.| | PubMed