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List of Adrenal Cancer Specialists and Experts

 

There are not many Adrenocortical Carcinoma specialists in the world   Adrenal cancer patients should have a team of experts on their case.  This team normally consists of three types of doctors - an oncologist, endocrinologist and surgeon.  Below is a list of those experienced doctors made by someone who was kind enough to gather and post the information on the Facebook support group.  

 

 

Oncologists/ACC:

 

Dr. Antonio Fojo 
https://ccr.cancer.gov/antonio-­‐tito-­‐fojo

Dr. Stephen Leong, University of Colorado
http://www.ucdenver.edu/…/M…/faculty/Pages/StephenLeong.aspx

Dr. Francis Worden- University of Michigan
http://www.uofmhealth.org/profi…/1071/francis-paul-worden-md

Dr. Keith Bible- Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
http://www.healthgrades.com/…/dr-keith-bi…/background-check…

Endocrinologists/ACC:

Dr A Vaidya, Boston, MA
http://physiciandirectory.brighamandwomens.org/Details/1991

Dr. Gary Hammer, U of Michigan
http://www.mcancer.org

Aymen Elfiky, MD, Boston, MA
617-­‐632-­‐5456 or aymen_elfiky@dfci.harvard.edu 
http://www.dana-­‐farber.org/Adult-­‐Care/Treatment-­‐and-­‐Support/Adrenocortical-­‐ Carcinoma.aspx (Oncologists and surgeons)

Dr. Margaret Wierman, University of Colorado
http://www.ucdenver.edu/…/…/faculty_staff/Pages/Wierman.aspx

 

Endocrinologists/Pheochromocytomas:

Dr. Camilo Jimenez, Houston, TX
http://faculty.mdanderson.org/Camillo_Jimenez/Default.asp

 

Surgeons:

Dr. M. DeMeure, Arizona
http://azgoes.com

Dr. Itzhak Avital, Richmond, VA
Bon Secours Richmond Health System

Dr. Jeffrey Norton, Stanford, CA 
https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/jeffrey-­‐norton?tab=bio

Dr. David Bartlett, Pittsburgh, PA
Doctor Biography | UPMC CancerCenter

Dr. Christopher Raeburn, Colorado 
http://www.cudoctors.com/find-­‐a-­‐doctor/profile/?providerID=3731

Dr. Mary Beth Hughes- Abdominal, Maryland 
https://ccr.cancer.gov/marybeth-s-hughes

Dr. Louis DiFronzo- Abdominal Surgeon, Los Angeles, CA
https://www.doximity.com/pub/louis-difronzo-md

Dr. Michael Chang, Thoracic Surgeon, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Michael_Y_Chang

Dr Thomas Schwaab- Abdominal Surgeon
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
http://www.healthgrades.com/physici…/dr-thomas-schwaab-2k237

Dr. Mark Truty, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
http://www.mayoclinic.org/…/truty-mark-j-m-d-m…/bio-20055639

 

PEDIATRIC oncology

Dr. Catherine Lam- St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN
Onocology
http://www.stjude.org/lam

Dr. Raul Ribeiro- St. Jude Children’s Hospital
Oncology
http://www.stjude.org/ribeiro

CANADIAN endocrinologist

Dr. Andre LaCroix
http://www.cahs-acss.ca/andre-lacroix/
andre.lacroix@umontreal.ca

 

EUROPEAN Oncologists/Endocrinologists

Dr. Prof. Allolio
Endocrinologist, Germany
http://www.medizin1.ukw.de/…/chi…/prof-dr-bruno-allolio.html

Fassnacht in Wuerzburg- Endocrinologist
WuerzburgGermany
http://www.medizin1.ukw.de/…/chiefs-…/pd-dr-m-fassnacht.html

Dr. V. Reinecke
Specialist in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine
Germany

Prof. Wiebke Arlt, England, Endocrinologist
Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Birmingham, 
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/…/prof…/cem/EDM/Arlt-Wiebke.aspx

Rossella Libe´, Jeroˆme Bertherat, and Xavier Bertagna
Department of Endocrinology INCa-COMETE, Cochin Hospital, Institut Cochin, Institut National de la Sante´ et de la Recherche Me´ dicale Unite´
1016, Rene´ Descartes University, 75006 Paris, France

Massimo Terzolo
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Internal Medicine, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy

Prof Karim Meeran
‘Imperial Centre for Endocrinology, England
http://www.imperialendo.com/for-patients/private-services

 

RUSSIA

Dr. Dmitry Beltsevich
Surgeon-Endocrinologist, National Endocrinology Center
http://www.endocrincentr.ru

 

AUSTRALIAN ACC doctors:

 

Surgeons:

1. Prof Stan Sidhu
Royal North Shore (rns)
Specialises in adrenal and thyroid surgery. Will do ctc tests and researches in adrenal trials and tumours.

Prof Phillip Crowe
Prince of Wales

 

Endocrinologists:

1.Prof Rory Cliffton- Bligh
Royal North Shore (rns)
Very diligent, careful, knowledgable

2. Prof Bruce Robinson
Royal North Shore (rns)
Dean of medicine for U of Sydney
specialist in adrenal cancer

 

Oncologist:

Prof Stephen Clarke
Royal North Shore 
Sees a lot of adrenal patients

 

Israel

 

Endocrinologist:

Dr. David Gross 

 

 

 

 

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