Robert Udelsman, M.D., MBA, FACS, FACE, is chief of endocrine surgery and director of the Endocrine Neoplasia Institute at Miami Cancer Institute, a world-class cancer center, part of Baptist Health South Florida. He is renowned for his innovative and highly successful surgical approach for performing parathyroid and thyroid operations. He has dedicated much of his career to the development of minimally invasive endocrine procedures, performing more than 7,000 thyroid and 6,000 parathyroid procedures. He was one of the first in the world to pioneer minimally invasive parathyroidectomy and the first in the U.S. to perform thyroid and parathyroidectomies via the mouth, avoiding visible scarring on the neck. He also was an early adopter of ...