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David S. Cooper, MD, MACP is a graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his endocrinology training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is currently Professor of Medicine and Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is one of the editors of the iconic textbook on thyroid disease, Werner and Ingbar’s The Thyroid, and he co-edits two other textbooks: Medical Management of Thyroid Disease and Thyroid Cancer. He is also the co-author of a book for patients with thyroid disease entitled Your Thyroid: A Home Reference. He is the past Chair of the Subspecialty Board for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is an Editor-in-Chief for Endocrinology at Up-to-Date, and he has served as the Chair of the Endocrine Society’s annual Board Review Course. Dr. Cooper was the Chair of the American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) 2006 and 2009 task forces that first drafted clinical practice guidelines for the management of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. He also served on ATA sponsored task forces that promulgated guidelines for the management of hypothyroidism and for the management of hyperthyroidism. He is the past Treasurer and past President of the ATA, and the recipient of the ATA’s Distinguished Service Award, its Paul Starr Award, and the Lewis Braverman Lectureship Award. He is also the recipient of the Distinction in Endocrinology Award given by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, as well as the Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Scholarly Physician Laureate Award and the Outstanding Educator Laureate Award. Dr. Cooper is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Follicular Thyroid Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Thyroid Cancer, Graves Disease, Follicular Thyroid Cancer, Thyroidectomy, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Dr. Douglas Ball is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in oncology. His areas of clinical expertise include diagnostic radiology, endocrine oncology, thyroid cancer and thyroid diseases. Dr. Ball earned his M.D. from the George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Pittsburgh-Presbyterian University Hospital and performed a fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at Johns Hopkins. His research interests include medullary thyroid cancer, differentiated thyroid cancer and anaplastic thyroid cancer. Dr. Ball is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Follicular Thyroid Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma, Thyroid Cancer, Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer, Papillary Thyroid Cancer, and Thyroidectomy.

Dr. Prasanna Santhanam received his M.B.B.S. from B.J. Medical College and his M.D. from N.H.L. Municipal Medical College. He completed a residency in internal medicine, Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University and a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University. He underwent additional training in nuclear medicine, at the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, to pursue his research and clinical interests in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging of endocrine glands and disorders. His clinical interests include thyroid disorders, endocrine neoplasms, and research focus on metabolic and molecular imaging of endocrine tissues and predictive analytics in metabolic disorders. Dr. Santhanam is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Follicular Thyroid Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Thyroid Cancer, Follicular Thyroid Cancer, Papillary Thyroid Cancer, Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer, and Thyroidectomy.