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Francis D. Moore, M.D.

Professor, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Head, Endocrine Surgery Unit, Brigham And Women's Hospital

Contact Info

Francis Moore
Brigham And Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA, 02115
Phone: 617-732-6830
Fax: 617-734-0336
fmoore@partners.org

Assistant

Not Available.

DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Head and Neck Cancer

Research Abstract

The research relevant to this site is clinical and involves improved methods of thyroid cancer surgery and treatment of thyroid cancers. Particular focus has been on reduction in surgical mobidity and in the acquisition of new scnaiing techniques to locate and destroy cancerous tissue before and during surgery. Cooperative studies on basic aspects of cancer development have been done in the past.

Publications

  • Moore FD, Dluhy RG.Prophylactic thyroidectomy in MEN-2A--a stitch in time?.N Engl J Med 2005 Sep 15;353(11):1162-4.
    16162888
  • Shankar KB, Posner M, Moore FD, O'Rourke N.Laryngeal nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery in pregnancy.J Clin Anesth 2005 Aug;17(5):369-71.
    16102689
  • Weeks C, Moore FD, Ferzoco SJ, Gates J.Blunt trauma to the thyroid: a case report.Am Surg 2005 Jun;71(6):518-21.
    16044935
  • Chan RK, Ibrahim SI, Pil P, Tanasijevic M, Moore FD.Validation of a method to replace frozen section during parathyroid exploration by using the rapid parathyroid hormone assay on parathyroid aspirates.Arch Surg 2005 Apr;140(4):371-3.
    15841560
  • Kifor O, McElduff A, LeBoff MS, Moore FD, Butters R, Gao P, Cantor TL, Kifor I, Brown EM.Activating antibodies to the calcium-sensing receptor in two patients with autoimmune hypoparathyroidism.J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004 Feb;89(2):548-56.
    14764760
  • Yeh JJ, Lunetta KL, van Orsouw NJ, Moore FD, Mutter GL, Vijg J, Dahia PL, Eng C.Somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in papillary thyroid carcinomas and differential mtDNA sequence variants in cases with thyroid tumours.Oncogene 2000 Apr 13;19(16):
    10803467