Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD
EA Crowell Jr Professor and Head
Department of Surgery,
ronald-weigel@uiowa.edu
Office Telephone: 319-353-7474
Acting Director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Endocrine Surgery and Surgical Oncology Clinic
Telephone: 319-356-4200
Plastic Surgery Clinic
Telephone: 319-356-7941
Team Member of the Breast Cancer Care Program
Medical School:
- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Internship:
- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Residency:
- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Certification:
- American Board of Surgery
Memberships:
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
- Association for Academic Surgery
- American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
- San Francisco Surgical Society
- Society of University SurgeonsAmerican Association for Cancer Research
- Surgical Biology Club II
- Sabiston Surgical Society
- Pacific Coast Surgical Association
- The Society of Surgical Oncology
- International Association of Endocrine Surgeons
- International Society of Surgery/Societe Internationale de Chirurgie
- American Surgical Association
- Society of Clinical Surgery
- Philadelphia Academy of Surgery
- American Board of Surgery
Honors:
- MIT's Boit Writing Prize
- MIT's Robert T. Haslam Cup Award
- Medical Scientist Training Program Award
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
- The Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Award
- American Surgical Association Fellow
- The Elsbach Richards Faculty Scholar
- George H.A. Clowes, Jr., MD, F.A.C.S. Memorial Research Award
- Francis E. Rosato Professor of Surgical Oncology
Selected Recent Publications (Recent Papers):
- Lal TG, Kaulback KR, Bombonati A, Palazzo JP, Jeffrey RB, Weigel RJ (2003). Surgical Management of Adrenal Cysts. American Surgeon 69:812-4.
- Weigel RJ, Dracon G, Radhakrishnan R, Rho Y, Sevgen F, Dafoe DC (2004). Incentive Systems For Academic Productivity in a Department of Surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 199:300-307.
- Kulkarni K, Kim SM, Weigel RJ (2004). Utility of Very Delayed Parathyroid MIBI SPECT for Localization of Parathyroid Adenoma. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 29:727-729.
- Aqeilan RI, Palamarchuk A, Pekarsky Y, Iliopoulos D, Weigel RJ, Herrero JJ, Huebner K, Croce CM (2004). Physical and Functional Interactions between Wwox Tumor Suppressor Protein and the AP2? Transcription Factor. Cancer Research 64:8256-8261.
- Weigel RJ, Silverberg LI (2005). Effect of Parathyroidectomy on Polycythemia Vera. Surgery 137:102-3.
- Parikh P, Palazzo JP, Rose LJ, Daskalakis C, Weigel RJ (2005). GATA-3 Expression as a Predictor of Hormone Response in Breast Cancer. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 200:705–710.
- Stabach PR, Thiyagarajan MM, Weigel RJ (2005). Expression of ZER6 in ER?-positive Breast Cancer. Journal of Surgical Research 126:86-91.
Recent Books and Chapters
- Thompson DA, Carmeci C and Weigel RJ (1998). RT-PCR using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) archival tumour specimens. In: Gene Cloning and Analysis by RT-PCR, pp 3-17, PD Siebert and Larrick (eds.). BioTechniques Books, Natick, MA.
- Macdonald JS, D Haller, McDougall IR and Weigel RJ. (2000) Endocrine system. In: Clinical Oncology, Second Edition, pp 1360-1397, MD Abeloff, JO Armitage, AS Lichter and JE Niederhuber, (eds.). Churchill, Livingstone, New York.
- Weigel RJ.(2001) Thyroid In: Surgery: Scientific Basis and Current Evidence, pp879-896, JA Norton, RR Bollinger, AE Chang, SF Lowry, SJ Mulvihill, HI Pass and RW Thompson (eds.). Springer-Verlag, New York.
- Yang GP and Weigel RJ.(2001) Transcription In: Surgical Research, pp233-251, WW Souba and D. Wilmore (eds.). Academic Press, San Diego.
- Weigel RJ, Macdonald JS, Haller D, McDougall IR (2004). Cancer of the Endocrine System. In: Clinical Oncology, Third Edition, MD Abeloff, JO Armitage, JE Niederhuber, MB Kastan, WG McKenna (eds.). Elsevier, Philadelphia