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Dr Laura Wang

I am a highly trained Endocrine, Head & Neck surgeon who found my passion during my registrar years while working in Endocrine, Head and Neck departments across Sydney. I obtained my BS(Med) MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Science Medicine) from the University of New South Wales in 2008. My General Surgical training was completed at various institutions including Liverpool Hospital, Campbelltown Hospital, Prince Alfred Hospital, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, Auburn Hospital, and several regional centers. It was as a junior registrar that I developed a deep interest in Endocrine, Head and Neck surgery.

After becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2018, I was selected for dual fellowships in Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular reconstruction at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, which is known globally for its excellence. These two intensive fellowships allowed me to refine my operative and clinical skills, particularly in treating tumors of the Head and Neck.

I am a leader in my field with over 30 peer-reviewed publications in the area of Head and Neck oncology. I also hold a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) focusing on thyroid cancer prognosis and management. I am a regular speaker at national and international conferences and currently serve as a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney.

My clinical interests encompass all aspects of Head and Neck care, including Thyroid and Parathyroid surgery, Skin cancer surgery, Parotid and Submandibular gland surgery, Neck lymph node surgery, Oral cavity and Jaw cancer surgery, and Head and Neck reconstruction.

I look forward to providing comprehensive and individualized care for any Endocrine and Head and Neck patients.

Publications

Kokosis, G., Vorstenbosch, J., Lombardi, A., Shamsunder, M. G., Mehrara, B., Hespe, G. E., Wang, L., Brennan, C. W., Ganly, I., & Matros, E. (2020). Use of the Omental Free Flap for Treatment of Chronic Anterior Skull Base Infections. Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open , 8 (8), e2988. https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000002988
Wu, J. X., Hanson, M., Lohia, S., Li, H., Wang, L., Shaha, A. R., & Ganly, I. (2020). Prospective anatomical study to determine the site of insertion of recurrent laryngeal nerve into the larynx. Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery , 45 (6), 853–856. https://doi.org/10.1111/coa.13599
Harries, V., Wang, L. Y., McGill, M., Xu, B., Tuttle, R. M., Wong, R. J., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Ghossein, R., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2020). Should multifocality be an indication for completion thyroidectomy in papillary thyroid carcinoma?. Surgery , 167 (1), 10–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2019.03.031
Sood, A., Wykes, J., Roshan, D., Wang, L. Y., McGuinness, J., Fowler, A., & Ebrahimi, A. (2019). A critical analysis of the prognostic performance of the 8th edition American Joint Committee on Cancer staging for metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Head & neck , 41 (6), 1591–1596. https://doi.org/10.1002/hed.25599
Sood, A., Wykes, J., Roshan, D., Wang, L. Y., McGuinness, J., Forstner, D., Fowler, A., Lee, M., Kernohan, M., Ngo, Q., Estall, V., & Ebrahimi, A. (2019). Number of nodal metastases and prognosis in metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. ANZ journal of surgery , 89 (7-8), 863–867. https://doi.org/10.1111/ans.15086
Shaha, A. R., Migliacci, J. C., Nixon, I. J., Wang, L. Y., Wong, R. J., Morris, L. G. T., Patel, S. G., Shah, J. P., Tuttle, R. M., & Ganly, I. (2019). Stage migration with the new American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system (8th edition) for differentiated thyroid cancer. Surgery , 165 (1), 6–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2018.04.078
Wang, L. Y., & Ganly, I. (2018). Post-treatment surveillance of thyroid cancer. European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology , 44 (3), 357–366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2017.07.004
Wang, L. Y., Migliacci, J. C., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2017). Management and outcome of clinically evident neck recurrence in patients with papillary thyroid cancer. Clinical endocrinology , 87 (5), 566–571. https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.13378
Wang, L. Y., Nixon, I. J., Patel, S. G., Palmer, F. L., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A., Shah, J. P., & Ganly, I. (2016). Operative management of locally advanced, differentiated thyroid cancer. Surgery , 160 (3), 738–746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2016.04.027
Wang, L. Y., & Ganly, I. (2016). Nodal metastases in thyroid cancer: prognostic implications and management. Future oncology (London, England) , 12 (7), 981–994. https://doi.org/10.2217/fon.16.10
Nixon, I. J., Wang, L. Y., Ganly, I., Patel, S. G., Morris, L. G., Migliacci, J. C., Tuttle, R. M., Shah, J. P., & Shaha, A. R. (2016). Outcomes for patients with papillary thyroid cancer who do not undergo prophylactic central neck dissection. The British journal of surgery , 103 (3), 218–225. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.10036
Wang, L. Y., Roman, B. R., Palmer, F. L., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2016). Effectiveness of routine ultrasonographic surveillance of patients with low-risk papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. Surgery , 159 (5), 1390–1395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2015.11.018
Wang, L. Y., Roman, B. R., Migliacci, J. C., Palmer, F. L., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2015). Cost-effectiveness analysis of papillary thyroid cancer surveillance. Cancer , 121 (23), 4132–4140. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.29633
Wang, L. Y., Ghossein, R., Palmer, F. L., Nixon, I. J., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2015). Microscopic Positive Margins in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Is Not an Independent Predictor of Local Failure. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 25 (9), 993–998. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2015.0141
Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Migliacci, J. C., Nixon, I. J., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Tuttle, R. M., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2016). Role of RAI in the management of incidental N1a disease in papillary thyroid cancer. Clinical endocrinology , 84 (2), 292–295. https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.12828
Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Nixon, I. J., Tuttle, R. M., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., Shaha, A. R., & Ganly, I. (2015). Lateral Neck Lymph Node Characteristics Prognostic of Outcome in Patients with Clinically Evident N1b Papillary Thyroid Cancer. Annals of surgical oncology , 22 (11), 3530–3536. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-015-4398-2
Wang, L., & Ganly, I. (2014). The oral microbiome and oral cancer. Clinics in laboratory medicine , 34 (4), 711–719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cll.2014.08.004
Wang, L. Y., Smith, A. W., Palmer, F. L., Tuttle, R. M., Mahrous, A., Nixon, I. J., Patel, S. G., Ganly, I., Fagin, J. A., & Boucai, L. (2015). Thyrotropin suppression increases the risk of osteoporosis without decreasing recurrence in ATA low- and intermediate-risk patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 25 (3), 300–307. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2014.0287
Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Thomas, D., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., Tuttle, R. M., & Ganly, I. (2014). Preoperative neck ultrasound in clinical node-negative differentiated thyroid cancer. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism , 99 (10), 3686–3693. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2014-1681
Wang, L. Y., Nixon, I. J., Palmer, F. L., Thomas, D., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A. R., Patel, S. G., Shah, J. P., & Ganly, I. (2014). Comparable outcomes for patients with pT1a and pT1b differentiated thyroid cancer: Is there a need for change in the AJCC classification system?. Surgery , 156 (6), 1484–1490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2014.08.037
Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Nixon, I. J., Thomas, D., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A. R., & Ganly, I. (2014). Central lymph node characteristics predictive of outcome in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 24 (12), 1790–1795. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2014.0256
Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Nixon, I. J., Thomas, D., Patel, S. G., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Tuttle, R. M., & Ganly, I. (2014). Multi-organ distant metastases confer worse disease-specific survival in differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 24 (11), 1594–1599. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2014.0173
Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Thomas, D., Nixon, I. J., Tuttle, R. M., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., Shaha, A. R., & Ganly, I. (2015). Level 7 disease does not confer worse outcome than level 6 disease in differentiated thyroid cancer. Annals of surgical oncology , 22 (2), 441–445. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-014-4045-3
Wang, L. Y., Versnick, M. A., Gill, A. J., Lee, J. C., Sidhu, S. B., Sywak, M. S., & Delbridge, L. W. (2013). Level VII is an important component of central neck dissection for papillary thyroid cancer. Annals of surgical oncology , 20 (7), 2261–2265. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-012-2833-1
Tran, B., Roshan, D., Abraham, E., Wang, L., Garibotto, N., Wykes, J., Campbell, P., & Ebrahimi, A. (2018). An Analysis of The American Joint Committee on Cancer 8th Edition T Staging System for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism , 103 (6), 2199–2206. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2017-02551
Tran, B., Roshan, D., Abraham, E., Wang, L., Garibotto, N., Wykes, J., Campbell, P., & Ebrahimi, A. (2018). The Prognostic Impact of Tumor Size in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma is Modified by Age. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 28 (8), 991–996. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2017.0607
Shaha, M. A., Wang, L. Y., Migliacci, J. C., Palmer, F. L., Nixon, I. J., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2017). Previous External Beam Radiation Treatment Exposure Does Not Confer Worse Outcome for Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 27 (3), 412–417. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2016.0303
Xu, B., Ibrahimpasic, T., Wang, L., Sabra, M. M., Migliacci, J. C., Tuttle, R. M., Ganly, I., & Ghossein, R. (2016). Clinicopathologic Features of Fatal Non-Anaplastic Follicular Cell-Derived Thyroid Carcinomas. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 26 (11), 1588–1597. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2016.0247
McNamara, W. F., Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Nixon, I. J., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2016). Pattern of neck recurrence after lateral neck dissection for cervical metastases in papillary thyroid cancer. Surgery , 159 (6), 1565–1571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2016.02.005
Nixon, I. J., Wang, L. Y., Migliacci, J. C., Eskander, A., Campbell, M. J., Aniss, A., Morris, L., Vaisman, F., Corbo, R., Momesso, D., Vaisman, M., Carvalho, A., Learoyd, D., Leslie, W. D., Nason, R. W., Kuk, D., Wreesmann, V., Morris, L., Palmer, F. L., Ganly, I., … Shah, J. P. (2016). An International Multi-Institutional Validation of Age 55 Years as a Cutoff for Risk Stratification in the AJCC/UICC Staging System for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 26 (3), 373–380. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2015.0315
Ganly, I., Nixon, I. J., Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Migliacci, J. C., Aniss, A., Sywak, M., Eskander, A. E., Freeman, J. L., Campbell, M. J., Shen, W. T., Vaisman, F., Momesso, D., Corbo, R., Vaisman, M., Shaha, A., Tuttle, R. M., Shah, J. P., & Patel, S. G. (2015). Survival from Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: What Has Age Got to Do with It?. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association , 25 (10), 1106–1114. https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2015.0104
Nixon IJ, Wang LY, Ganly I, Patel SG, Morris L, Migliacci JC, Tuttle RM, Shah JP, Shaha AR. Fate of the observed central neck in papillary thyroid cancer. British Journal of Surgery 2016 ... title not found in BJS, similar auth to 'Outcomes for patients with ptc ...
Xu, B., Wang, L., Tuttle, R. M., Ganly, I., & Ghossein, R. (2015). Prognostic impact of extent of vascular invasion in low-grade encapsulated follicular cell-derived thyroid carcinomas: a clinicopathologic study of 276 cases. Human pathology , 46 (12), 1789–1798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humpath.2015.08.015
Ho, A. S., Davies, L., Nixon, I. J., Palmer, F. L., Wang, L. Y., Patel, S. G., Ganly, I., Wong, R. J., Tuttle, R. M., & Morris, L. G. (2015). Increasing diagnosis of subclinical thyroid cancers leads to spurious improvements in survival rates. Cancer , 121 (11), 1793–1799. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.29289
Ganly, I., Wang, L., Tuttle, R. M., Katabi, N., Ceballos, G. A., Harach, H. R., & Ghossein, R. (2015). Invasion rather than nuclear features correlates with outcome in encapsulated follicular tumors: further evidence for the reclassification of the encapsulated papillary thyroid carcinoma follicular variant. Human pathology , 46 (5), 657–664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humpath.2015.01.010
Nixon, I. J., Wang, L. Y., Palmer, F. L., Tuttle, R. M., Shaha, A. R., Shah, J. P., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2014). The impact of nodal status on outcome in older patients with papillary thyroid cancer. Surgery , 156 (1), 137–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2014.03.027