Dr. Quan-Yang Duh is Professor of Surgery, Section Chief of Endocrine Surgery, at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also Attending Surgeon at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Dr. Duh graduated from Yale University, New Haven, CT with a B.S. and summa cum laude in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He completed his surgical internship, residency and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, in San Francisco
He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Dr. Duh is recognized internationally and nationally as an expert endocrine surgeon and advance laparoscopic surgeon. He specializes in the treatment of endocrine cancers and tumors, including those from the thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas and adrenal glands. He is an expert minimally invasive surgeon and performed laparoscopic adrenalectomy and laparoscopic hernia repair, and minimally invasive surgery for parathyroid and thyroid gland, as well as other complex laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery.

Dr. Duh’s research in endocrine cancer involved oncogenesis, genetic alteration and redifferentiation treatment of thyroid cancer and adrenal tumors. His clinical research involved patients with adrenal diseases (aldosteronoma, pheochromocytoma, Cushing, incidentaloma and adrenal metastasis), and minimally invasive parathyroid and thyroid operations. Dr. Duh has developed and actively teaches several new techniques for advance laparoscopic surgery. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 articles and textbook chapters on topics of endocrine surgery and laparoscopic surgery.

Dr. Duh is Past President of American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, the Northern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and the San Francisco Surgical Society.