Title: Consultant Endocrine Surgeon
Specialty 1: Endocrine Surgery
Specialty 1 Specialisation: Minimal access endocrine surgery, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal
Specialty 2: General Surgery
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Clinical Interests: Thyroid cancer, hyperparathyroidism, adrenal disease, MEN endocrine syndromes.
Pen Picture: Specialist endocrine surgeon with personal series of over 1500 thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal operations. Consultant Endocrine Surgeon at Hammersmith Hospital since 2005, replacing Mr John Lynn as Clinical lead for endocrine surgery at Imperial College Healthcare in 2006.
Elected Member of Executive British Association of Endocrine & Thyroid Surgeons Council member of the Endocrine Section of Royal Society of Medicine Faculty member Royal College of Surgeons of England/BAETS Endocrine Surgery Masterclass.
Training background: Trained in general surgery in London and in endocrine surgery in Oxford, Sydney and Marseille. Endocrine surgical research fellow St Bartholomew's Hospital 1999-2001 - Master of Surgery (MS) University of London.
British Association of Endocrine Surgery Travelling Fellow 2004/5 at La Timone Univeristy Hospital, Marseille, France. TS Reeve International Clinical Fellow in Endocrine Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney 2003/4. Editor of a surgical training manual & author of several book chapters and over 50 endocrine surgical publications (see www.pubmed.com)
Languages Spoken: English, Italian, French
Regular Cromwell Clinics: Yes
Telephone Number: 020 7100 8086
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Year Qualified: 1992
Memberships: British Association of Endocrine Surgeons, European Society of Endocrine Surgeons, International Association of Endocrine Surgeons,
NHS Hospital: Hammersmith/Charing Cross
Additional Posts: Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
Research Interests: Thyroid cancer, hyperparathyroidism syndromes, adrenal cancer
Published Papers: • Primary hyperparathyroidism
F. Palazzo
BMJ Best Practice. 2010
http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/133.html
• Goitre and thyroid cancer
F. Palazzo
Medicine, 2009 Volume 37, Issue 8, Pages 436-439
• Thyroid incidentaloma: An evidence-based assessment of management strategy.
Gough J, Scott-Coombes D, Palazzo FF
World Journal of Surgery 2008 32:1264-1268
• Long Term Results of Patients Following Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Large Adrenal Tumours
F.F. Palazzo, F. Sebag, M. Sierra, G. Ippolito, P. Souteyrand,
J.F. Henry
World Journal of Surgery, 2006 May;30(5):893-8
• Minimally invasive / Minimal access parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism
F.F. Palazzo, L.W. Delbridge
Surgical Clinics of North America 2004, 84,3:717-734