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Ralph P. Tufano, MD

Otolaryngologist
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
Sarsota, FL, United States

Dr. Tufano is the Director of the Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH) and First Physicians Group (FPG) Thyroid and Parathyroid Center, Director of FPG Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Florida State University College of Medicine. He 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 has served on the Board of the American Thyroid Association (ATA). He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Surgical Affairs Committee for the ATA and served as its inaugural co-chair. 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 270 peer-reviewed papers, and more than 40 textbook chapters related to thyroid and parathyroid diseases. He has also edited two textbooks in the field. His research interests include novel directed therapies for the treatment of thyroid and parathyroid diseases, clinical outcomes research including transoral thyroid and parathyroid surgery, and determining the value propositions for thyroid and parathyroid surgical care episodes. After 21 years at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Dr. Tufano joined the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in 2021 to take on his new responsibilities. He is the incoming President for the North American Society of Interventional Thyroidology 2026.

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