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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
ELECTRON KEBEBEW, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor in Residence, Surgery, UCSF

CONTACT

(415) 353-7687 (appts)
(415) 353-7781 (fax)

Box 1674, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1674

additional websites:

UCSF Physician Referral Directory
Endocrine Surgery/Oncology Program

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles, B.S., 1991, Chemical Engineering - Bioengineering option
University of California, San Francisco, M.D., 1995, Medicine

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997-1999

NIH T32 Surgical Oncology Basic Science Fellowship, UCSF

2002-2006

The Robert Wood Johnson Minority Medical Faculty Development Program Fellowship

2002-present

Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Surgery, UCSF

HONORS & AWARDS

1987-1991

Unocal Scholarship for Excellence in Chemical Engineering, UCLA

1991-1995

Steinhart Scholarship, UCSF School of Medicine

1991-1995

Tucker Scholarship, UCSF School of Medicine

1996

Julius R. Krevans Award for Clinical Excellence, Surgery Internship, UCSF

1998

East Bay Surgical Society Resident Research Award

1998, 1999

Minority Scholar Award, American Association for Cancer Research

2000

Resident Research Award, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons

2002-2003

Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare

2002

Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kebebew E, Treseler PA, Siperstein AE, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Normal thyroid pathology in patients with positive RET germline mutation: A report of three case and review of the literature. Thyroid 9:127, 1999.

Kebebew E, Wong MG, Siperstein AE, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Phenylacetate inhibits growth and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) secretion in human thyroid carcinoma cells, and modulates their differentiated function. J Clin Endocrinol & Metab 84:2840, 1999.

Kebebew E, Ituarte P, Siperstein AE, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Medullary thyroid cancer. Clinical characteristics, treatment, prognostic factors and a comparison of staging systems. Cancer 88:1139, 2000.

Kebebew E, Kikuchi S, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Long-term Results of Reoperation and Localizing Studies in Patients With Persistent or Recurrent Medullary Thyroid Cancer. Arch Surg 135:895, 2000.

Kebebew E, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Total Thyroidectomy or Thyroid Lobectomy in Patients with Low Risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer? A Surgical Decision Analysis of a Controversy Using a Mathematical Model. World J Surg 24:1295, 2000.

Kebebew E, Treseler PA, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. The helix-loop-helix transcription factor, Id-1, is overexpressed in medullary thyroid cancer. Surgery 128:952, 2000.

Kebebew E, Clark OH. Medullary Thyroid Cancer. Current Treatment Options in Oncology 1:359, 2000.

Kebebew E, Treseler PA, Ituarte P, Clark OH. Coexisting chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and papillary thyroid cancer revisited. World J Surg 25:632, 2001.

Kebebew E, Arici C, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Localization and Reoperation Results for Persistent and Recurrent Parathyroid Carcinoma. Arch Surg 136:878, 2001.

Kebebew E. Parathyroid carcinoma. Current Treatment Options in Oncology 2 :347, 2001

Kebebew E, Siperstein AE, Duh Q-Y. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy: the optimal approach. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 11:409, 2001.

Kebebew E, Clark OH, Siperstein AE, Duh Q-Y. Results of Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Suspected and Unsuspected Adrenal Neoplasm. Arch Surg 137:948, 2002.

Kebebew E, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. The helix-loop-helix, Id-1, is overexpressed and regulates growth in papillary thyroid cancer. Surgery 134:235, 2003.

Kebebew E, Clark OH. Locally advanced differentiated thyroid cancer. Surg Oncol 12:91, 2003.

Hung CJ, Ginzinger DG, Zarnegar R, Kanauchi H, Wong MW, Kebebew E, Clark OH, Duh Q-Y. Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor-C in benign and malignant thyroid tumors. J Clin Endocrinol & Metab 88:3694, 2003.

Kebebew E, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism in octoganerians and nanogenarians: A plea for early surgical referral. Arch Surg 138:867, 2003.

Kebebew E. Invited Critique. Could near-total thyroidectomy be the best choice in endemic regions. Acun et al. Arch Surg, 2003.

Sebag F, Shen W, Brunaud L, Kebebew E, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay and parathyroid reoperations. Surgery 134:1049, 2003.

Shen W, Kebebew E, Clark OH, Duh Q-Y. Predictors of airway complications after thyroidectomy for substernal goiter. Arch Surg 139:656, 2004.

Sturgeon D, Kebebew E. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for malignancy. Surg Clin North Am 84:755, 2004.

Clark OH, Duh Q-Y, Kebebew E. Updates in endocrine surgery. Surg Clin North Am 84: XIII-XIV, 2004.

Gertner ME, Kebebew E. Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2. Curr Treat Options Oncol 5:315, 2004.

D'Avanzo A, Ituarte P, Treseler P, Kebebew E, Wu J, Wong M, Duh Q-Y, Siperstein AE, Clark OH. Prognostic scoring systems in patients with follicular thyroid cancer: a comparison of different staging systems in predicting the patient outcome. Thyroid 6:453, 2004.

Kebebew E, Peng M, Treseler PA, Clark OH, Duh Q-Y, Ginzinger D, Miner R. Id1 gene expression is up-regulated in hyperplastic and neoplastic thyroid tissue and regulates growth and differentiation in thyroid cancer cells. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 12:6105, 2004.

Kebebew E, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH.. Tertiary hyperparathyroidism: histologic patterns of disease and results of parathyroidectomy. Arch Surg 9:974, 2004.

Kushchayeva Y, Duh Q-Y, Kebebew E, Clark OH. Prognostic indications for hurthle cell cancer. Worl J Surg 12:1266, 2004.

Shen WT, Kebebew E, Clark OH, Duh Q-Y. Reasons for Conversion from Laparoscopic to Open or Hand-assisted Adrenalectomy: Review of 261 Laparoscopic Adrenalectomies from 1993 to 2003. World J Surg 11:1176, 2004.

Shen WT, Kebebew E, Duh Q-Y, Clark OH. Predictors of airway complications after thyroidectomy for substernal goiter. Arch Surg 6:656, 2004.

Sturgeon C, Kebebew E. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for malignancy. Surg Clin North Am 3:755, 2004

7/17/08

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