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Jennifer Braemar Ogilvie, MD, FACS

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Associate Professor of Surgery (Oncology, Endocrine)
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Chief, Endocrine Surgery

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Associate Professor of Surgery (Oncology, Endocrine)

Chief, Endocrine Surgery

Biography

Dr. Jennifer Ogilvie is Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief, Section of Endocrine Surgery at Yale School of Medicine. She completed training in General Surgery and fellowship training in Endocrine Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to Yale, she held faculty positions at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and New York University Langone Health, where she was also Director of Endocrine Surgery at Bellevue Hospital. Her clinical interests focus on the optimal surgical treatment of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal tumors. Her research interests are in surgical education and the function of surgical teams, shared clinical decision making, and clinical outcomes in Endocrine Surgery.

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Education & Training

Endocrine Surgery Fellowship
University of California, San Francisco (2005)
General Surgery Residency
University of California, San Francisco (2004)
Research Fellowship
Massachusetts General Hospital (2002)
General Surgery Internship
University of California, San Francisco (1998)
MD
Harvard University (1997)

Research

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Endocrine Surgical Procedures

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36Publications
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Clinical Care

Overview

Jennifer Ogilvie, MD, chief of Endocrine Surgery, says she grew up always knowing she wanted to be a physician.

“I would take books on anatomy out of the library as a child and was fascinated with how the human body works,” she says. “If someone I knew got sick, I wanted to know everything I could about what happened. Every time I went to the doctor, I wanted to know how all of the instruments worked.”

Deciding to specialize in surgery was a decision she did not take lightly when she got to medical school. “The first time I went into the operating room, I just loved everything about it. I tried hard to talk myself out of surgery because of all that a life in surgery brings with it, but I just couldn’t,” she says.

Dr. Ogilvie says her fate was sealed during a resection for gastric cancer when she was a medical student. “After the case, I followed two wonderful mentors, one an oncologist and one a surgeon, when they went to talk to the patient’s family afterwards. I realized that as much as I respected each of them, I simply wanted to be the one saying, ‘This is what we saw and this is what we did,’” she says.

She was drawn to endocrine surgery because of its complexity in miniature. “The endocrine system is intricate and requires precise surgery. But many of the diseases have really good outcomes, and thyroid cancer is often very treatable,” Dr. Ogilvie says. “As much as I love surgery, I also really enjoy talking to patients and their families and teaching them more about their conditions.”

Dr. Ogilvie focuses on the surgical treatment of thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal tumors. Her research interests include improving patient outcomes and training the next generation of surgeons.

“I’m interested in how can we do the safest, most efficient, most precise and most successful surgery for each patient,” she says. “We are definitely moving toward less aggressive surgery for low-risk thyroid cancer that allows people to preserve more of their native thyroid tissue, but still have great long term oncologic outcomes.”

Clinical Specialties

Endocrine Surgery; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Head & Neck Surgical Oncology; Surgery

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  • Surgery General

    Certification Organization
    AB of Surgery
    Original Certification Date
    2006

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