Staff Profile

Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH

Associate Director
Section Head of Endocrine Surgery, MGH
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Dr. Cunningham (nee Lubitz) is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Section head of the Massachusetts General Hospital Endocrine Surgery Unit, and the Associate Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment.

She received her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan. She completed general surgery training at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical College. During residency, she studied the genetic basis of thyroid cancer as a part of the NCI-Surgical Oncology Research Training Program. She then completed her clinical endocrine surgery fellowship in 2010 at the Massachusetts General Hospital and obtained a Master of Public Health through the Harvard School of Public Health and was a fellow in the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training. In 2015, Dr. Cunningham was one of the recipients of the Claflin Distinguished Scholars Award at MGH.

Dr. Cunningham is the Association of Endocrine Surgeons research committee chair and executive council member and the President of the Association of Academic Surgery. Her overarching research mission has been to improve the health and well-being of patients with benign and malignant endocrine-related diseases. She is the principal investigator of an NIH/NCI R-37 (R01-type merit award) award to examine the potential impact of new diagnostic technologies and personalized management strategies in patients with thyroid cancer using mathematical disease simulation modeling and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award to develop a patient-reported instrument to assess thyroid-cancer specific quality of life.

Selected Publications

Collins, Reagan A; DiGennaro, Catherine; Beninato, Toni; Gartland, Rajshri M; Chaves, Natalia; Broekhuis, Jordan M; Reddy, Lekha; Lee, Jenna; Deimiller, Angelina; Alterio, Maeve M; Campbell, Michael J; Lee, Yeon Joo; Khilnani, Tyler K; Stewart, Latoya A; O'Brien, Mollie A; Alvarado, Miguel Valdivia Y; Zheng, Feibi; McAneny, David; Liou, Rachel; McManus, Catherine; Dream, Sophie Y; Wang, Tracy S; Yen, Tina W; Alhefdhi, Amal; Finnerty, Brendan M; Fahey, Thomas J; Graves, Claire E; Laird, Amanda M; Nehs, Matthew A; Drake, Frederick Thurston; Lee, James A; McHenry, Christopher R; James, Benjamin C; Pasieka, Janice L; Kuo, Jennifer H; Lubitz, Carrie Cunningham

Limited disease progression in endocrine surgery patients with treatment delays due to COVID-19 Journal Article

In: Surgery, vol. 173, no. 1, pp. 93–100, 2023, ISSN: 1532-7361.

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Frates, Beth; Cron, David; Lubitz, Carrie Cunningham; Boland, Genevieve; Srivastava, Sunita; Hodin, Richard A; Stephen, Antonia E; Carney, Kelsey; Phitayakorn, Roy

Incorporating Well-Being into Mentorship Meetings: A Case Demonstration at Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery a Harvard Medical School Affiliate Journal Article

In: Am J Lifestyle Med, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 213–215, 2023, ISSN: 1559-8284.

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Panda, Nikhil; Solsky, Ian; Cauley, Christy; Lipsitz, Stuart; Desai, Eesha V.; Huang, Emily J.; Benjamin, Evan M.; Lubitz, Carrie C.; Onnela, Jukka-Pekka; Haynes, Alex B.

Smartphone-Based Assessment of Preoperative Decision Conflict and Postoperative Physical Activity Among Patients Undergoing Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study. Journal Article

In: Annals of surgery, vol. 276, iss. 1, pp. 193-199, 2022, ISSN: 1528-1140.

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Wachtel, Heather; Roses, Robert E.; Kuo, Lindsay E.; Lindeman, Brenessa M.; Nehs, Matthew A.; Tavakkoli, Ali; Parangi, Sareh; Hodin, Richard A.; Fraker, Douglas L.; James, Benjamin C.; Carr, Azadeh A.; Wang, Tracy S.; Solórzano, Carmen C.; Lubitz, Carrie C.

Adrenalectomy for Secondary Malignancy: Patients, Outcomes, and Indications. Journal Article

In: Annals of surgery, vol. 274, no. 6, pp. 1073-1080, 2021, ISSN: 1528-1140, ().

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Zhou, Jingan; Singh, Preeti; Yin, Kanhua; Wang, Jin; Bao, Yujia; Wu, Menghua; Pathak, Kush; McKinley, Sophia K; Braun, Danielle; Lubitz, Carrie C.; Hughes, Kevin S

Non-medullary Thyroid Cancer Susceptibility Genes: Evidence and Disease Spectrum. Journal Article

In: Annals of surgical oncology, vol. 28, no. 11, pp. 6590-6600, 2021, ISSN: 1534-4681, ().

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Kuo, Lindsay E.; Bird, Sarah H.; Lubitz, Carrie C.; Pandian, T. K.; Parangi, Sareh; Stephen, Antonia E.

Four-dimensional computed tomography (4D-CT) for preoperative parathyroid localization: A good study but are we using it? Journal Article

In: American journal of surgery, vol. 224, iss. 4, pp. 694-698, 2021, ISSN: 1879-1883.

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Fligor, Scott C; Lopez, Betzamel; Uppal, Nishant; Lubitz, Carrie C.; James, Benjamin C

ASO Visual Abstract: Time to Surgery and Thyroid Cancer Survival in the United States. Journal Article

In: Annals of surgical oncology, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 3566, 2021, ISSN: 1534-4681, ().

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Fligor, Scott C; Lopez, Betzamel; Uppal, Nishant; Lubitz, Carrie C.; James, Benjamin C

Time to Surgery and Thyroid Cancer Survival in the United States. Journal Article

In: Annals of surgical oncology, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 3556-3565, 2021, ISSN: 1534-4681, ().

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Fligor, Scott C; Lubitz, Carrie C.; James, Benjamin C

ASO Author Reflections: Does Timely Surgery Matter in Papillary Thyroid Cancer? Journal Article

In: Annals of surgical oncology, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 3567, 2021, ISSN: 1534-4681, ().

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Garber, Jeffrey R.; Papini, Enrico; Frasoldati, Andrea; Lupo, Mark A.; Harrell, R. Mack; Parangi, Sareh; Patkar, Vivek; Baloch, Zubair W.; Pessah-Pollack, Rachel; Hegedus, Laszlo; Crescenzi, Anna; Lubitz, Carrie C.; Paschke, Ralf; Randolph, Gregory W.; Guglielmi, Rinaldo; Lombardi, Celestino P.; Gharib, Hossein

American Association of Clinical Endocrinology And Associazione Medici Endocrinologi Thyroid Nodule Algorithmic Tool. Journal Article

In: Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 649-660, 2021, ().

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