Dr. Quan-Yang Duh is UCSF's chief of endocrine surgery. He cares for patients with hormone gland tumors, including those of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands, as well as for patients with gastrointestinal cancers. He has a special interest in treating these disorders with laparoscopic and other minimally invasive procedures. He also supervises medical students, residents and fellows training at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Duh has published more than 400 papers and co-edited three textbooks. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous medical journals, including Thyroid, British Journal of Surgery, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Surgery, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Journal of the Endocrine Society and Asian Journal of Surgery. He has served as president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and he was the first vice president of the American College of Surgeons.
Duh earned his bachelor's degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University. He earned his medical degree at UCSF, where he also completed a residency in surgery and a fellowship in endocrine surgery.
Selected publications from PubMed
Thermal Ablation for Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: Promise, Pitfalls, and Perspective.
Kuo JH, Duh QY
JAMA Surg. 2026 Apr 1;161(4):315-316 doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.6720.
Near-Infrared Autofluorescence for Parathyroid Detection During Endocrine Neck Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Cousart AG, Kiernan CM, Willmon PA, Thomas G, Wang TS, Gauger PG, Duh QY, Underwood HJ, Jackson A, Patel A, Mahadevan-Jansen A, Solórzano CC
JAMA Surg. 2025 Sep 1;160(9):936-944 doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.2233.
Editorial: 2023 symposium on parathyroid fluorescence.
Di Meglio I, Balasubramanian SP, Cha RJ, Duh QY, Lorenz K, Mahadevan-Jansen A, Triponez F
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2024;15:1434058 doi: 10.3389/fendo.2024.1434058.
Nerve monitoring in endocrine surgery: Practice patterns differ among surgeons for parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy.
Conroy PC, Wilhelm A, Rajwani T, Mulder M, Gosnell J, Shen WT, Duh QY, Roman S, Sosa JA
Surgery. 2024 Apr;175(4):1040-1048 doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2023.11.024.
Invited commentary Dr. Janice Pasieka and pheochromocytoma.
Duh QY
Am J Surg. 2024 Mar;229:201-202 doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.12.004.
Welcome and Introduction – Dr. Steven D. Wexner (USA) and Dr. Tracy Wang (USA)Implicit Bias and the Model-Minority Myth – Dr. Tracy Wang (USA)Mentorship and Sponsorship from residency to retirement – Dr. Anai Kothari (USA) and Dr. Jennifer Tseng (USA)Allyship and Advocacy by Affinity Societies – Dr. Kasper Wang (USA) and Dr. Susan Tsai (USA)Addressing health care disparities among Asian Americans – Dr. Lillian Kao (USA)Addressing racial disparities by Research design – Dr. Ankush Gosain (USA)Developing diversity in national and international surgical leadership – Dr. Quan-Yang Duh (USA)Discussion –All faculty moderated by Dr. Eugene Kim (USA) and Dr. Allan Tsung (USA)
Published
Sep 2021
Program Association of women surgeons – Dr Sharon Stein (USA) Society of Black Academic Surgeons – Dr Andrea Hayes-Jordan (USA) Society of Asian Academic Surgeons – Dr Quan-Yang Duh (USA) Ensuring educational opportunities – Dr Carla Pugh (USA) The role of journals in achieving diversity – Dr Melina Kibbe (USA) Health Equity and the Role of the Private Sector – Dr Pierre Theodore (USA) Discussion – All faculty moderated by Dr Steven Wexner (USA), Dr Patricia Turner (USA) and Dr Mariana Berho (USA)
With Johnson & Johnson MedTech
Published
Mar 2021
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