Dr. Tufano has served as the Charles W. Cummings MD Endowed Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 2012-2021. Dr. Tufano has served as the department's Director of the Division of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery since 2011 and its American Head and Neck Society accredited fellowship in Endocrine Surgery. He is also a past chair of the American Academy of Otolaryngology's Endocrine Surgery Committee and serves on the American Head and Neck Society's Endocrine Section Board. He has authored over 230 peer-reviewed papers, more than 40 textbook chapters related to thyroid and parathyroid diseases, and has edited two textbooks. After 21 years at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Dr. Tufano joined the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in 2021 to direct the First Physicians Group Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Endocrine Center that consists of a dedicated Thyroid and Parathyroid Center and Head and Neck Cancer Center. He is now a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Tufano was the first surgeon in the U.S.A. to perform RFA of thyroid nodules (2019). David Goldenberg, MD, FACS, is a Head and Neck Surgical Oncologist. He was educated at the Ben Gurion University in Israel. He completed a residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, and then went on to do a three-year fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He then came to Penn State Hersey and has been there for 20 years.Currently, Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Penn State Health Hershey Medical Center.David combines a busy surgical practice with teaching and research. His clinical practice includes head and neck cancers, thyroid cancer, and parathyroid disease. In addition, David actively teaches medical students, residents, and fellows and is a Penn State College of Medicine Distinguished Educator.Dr. Goldenberg is an internationally recognized expert on thyroid cancer, thyroid, and parathyroid surgery. He is a funded researcher, and his clinical research focuses on outcomes and etiology of the rise in the incidence of thyroid cancer. In addition, his basic research lab and translational research focus on Head and neck and thyroid cancer genomics.Dr. Goldenberg is an accomplished and prolific author of 270 journal articles, 40 book chapters, and eight books in the field of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Rangel is the Chief of Head and Neck Surgery of Rio de Janeiro State University in Brazil. He has engaged in several educative initiatives regarding Radiofrequency Ablation of Thyroid Nodules and his research focuses on minimally invasive therapies for thyroid nodules.
