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Joseph Scharpf, MD, FACS Director of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery Head and Neck Institute Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio  Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE, FEBS (Endocrine) Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Boston, MA, USA Joseph Scharpf, MD, FACS, is a Staff Member of the Cleveland Clinic’s Head and Neck Institute in the Head and Neck Surgery section.  He is board-certified in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck GeSurgery.   He serves as the Director of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery at The Cleveland Clinic. He has published numerous journal articles and multiple book chapters on thyroid, parathyroid disease, head and neck cancer and reconstruction, and has delivered numerous presentations both nationally and internationally. Dr. Scharpf also serves as an educator, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows.  He is a reviewer for several major scientific journals in his field and has served as a consultant for ThyCa, an organization dedicated to the well-being of those afflicted with thyroid cancer. Dr. Scharpf is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the American Thyroid Association, and a member of the American Head and Neck Society.   With more than 25 years of experience in otolaryngology, Dr. Gregory Randolph specializes in thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He is a Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, the Claire and John Bertucci Endowed Chair in Thyroid Surgical Oncology, and a surgeon at Mass. Eye and Ear, where he also serves as the Division Chief of both the General Otolaryngology and Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery Divisions. Dr. Randolph has a thyroid and parathyroid surgical practice, seeing patients and operating at both Mass. Eye and Ear and Mass General. Dr. Randolph was the first otolaryngologist member of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES), the first otolaryngologist member and council member of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES), and the first otolaryngologist and United States surgeon to be board-certified in endocrine surgery in the European Union. Alongside Dr. Henning Dralle of Germany, he founded the Global International Neural Monitoring Study Group, which has generated multiple publications and standards guidelines for neural monitoring at thyroid surgery. With more than 155 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Randolph has focused the bulk of his research on recurrent laryngeal nerve anatomy, preservation, and monitoring during thyroid cancer surgery, with a concentration on the importance of laryngeal exams, the recognition of lymph node metastasis, and revision cancer surgery. He has led thyroid surgical missions to St. Petersburg, Russia; Guangzhou, China; Kenya; rural India; and the Chernobyl region of the Ukraine. He founded and directs the Harvard Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Course for surgeons and has directed international surgical courses in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Russia.

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