Plenary Session

Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, section head of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Endocrine Surgery Unit and a senior scientist at the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment. She is the Association of Endocrine Surgeons research committee chair and executive council member and a past 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. 

Dr. Cunningham will discuss the current mental health crisis among health care professionals. Through her own lived experience, she will discuss the current state, barriers to care, and a multifaceted approach to enacting change in mental health awareness, reducing stigma and increasing resources for those who are struggling in the medical community. 

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