Carmen Cecilia Solorzano, MD FACS

Carmen C. Solórzano, MD, FACS, is Professor of Surgery, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Director of Endocrine Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. She holds the John L. Sawyers Chair in Surgical Sciences. She is a graduate of the University of Florida General Surgery program and completed a Surgical Oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is actively involved in teaching Endocrine and Surgical Oncology. Her clinical research interests include the use of robotic techniques for adrenal tumors, the use of NIR-light to detect endocrine tumors, surgeon-performed ultrasound for endocrine tumors, the surgical management of recurrent/persistent thyroid cancer, and the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors and MEN syndromes. Dr. Solórzano has published more than 200 articles and book chapters. She serves in the editorial boards of the Annals of Surgical Oncology, the Journal of Surgical Oncology, JACS, and the World Journal of Surgery. She is Editor of Annals of Surgical Oncology Endocrine Tumor Section. Dr. Solórzano is President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) and serves as Governor for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) representing the AAES, ACS Board of Governors liaison to the Commission on Cancer, Chair of the Society of Surgical Oncology Endocrine and Head and Neck Disease Site work group, member of the American Thyroid Association Thyroid Nodules Guidelines Task Force, and the American Board of Surgery Certifying Examination consultant and Examiner.

Endocrine (Gland)

• adrenal cancers/tumors
• adrenal surgery
• Endocrine (Gland)
• hyperparathyroidism
• pancreatic endocrine tumors
• parathyroid cancer
• parathyroid surgery
• pheochromocytoma
• thyroid nodules/cancer
• thyroid surgery

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

• gastric cancer

Head and Neck

• parathyroid surgery
• thyroid surgery

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

• cholecystectomy
• pancreatic cancer
• pancreatic cysts

Minimal Access Surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

• doppler ultrasound
• fine needle aspiration/biopsy
• laparoscopic surgery
• robotic surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

• adrenal tumors
• biopsy of tumors
• endocrine cancer
• gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
• neck cancer/tumors
• neurofibromatosis
• pancreatic cancer/tumors
• stomach cancer/tumors
• thyroid cancer/nodules

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

Attending

VA

Nashville, TN

Attending

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Nashville, TN

Chairman