Dr. Carrie Cunningham Lubitz, MD, MPH

Expert Publications

• Advancing the molecular diagnosis of thyroid nodules: defining benign lesions by molecular profiling.
• The differentiation of benign and malignant thyroid nodules.
• Gene expression profiling of thyroid tumors--clinical applicability.
• Preoperative basal calcitonin and tumor stage correlate with postoperative
• Sestamibi-negative patients: to operate or image?
• BRAF V600E status adds incremental value to current risk classification systems in predicting papillary thyroid carcinoma recurrence.
• Recalcitrant hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy in patients with previous Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
• Editorial: Is molecular testing cost effective? It depends.
• BRAF(V600E) Is Correlated with Recurrence of Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: A Systematic Review, Multi-Institutional Primary Data Analysis, and Meta-Analysis.
• A Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Radiation Therapy and Survival for
• Editorial: Complex decision making in thyroid cancer: Costs and consequences-is less more?
• Reassessing risks and benefits of living kidney donors with a history of thyroid cancer.
• Evaluating the projected surgical impact of reclassifying noninvasive encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid cancer as noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features.

Media Releases

Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Carrie Cunningham Lubitz, who serves patients in Boston, Massachusetts.

A skilled general surgeon, Dr. Lubitz is an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also serves as the Section Head of the Endocrine Surgery Unit, a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Technology Assessment, and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Massachusetts General Hospital was established to provide care to Boston's sick, regardless of socioeconomic status, and became the first teaching hospital of Harvard University's new medical school. They have remained at the forefront of medicine by fostering a culture of collaboration and education, pushing the boundaries of medical research, and maintaining an unwavering commitment to the diverse community they were created to serve.

With a broad educational background, Dr. Lubitz earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School, and obtained her Master of Public Health degree through the Harvard School of Public Health. She then went on to complete her residency in general surgery at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and completed her fellowship in the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training in 2013.

As a testament of her continued education, the doctor is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.

In addition to her clinical practice which focuses on both benign and malignant thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease, Dr. Lubitz has clinical and translational research interests including prediction and decision-analytic modeling to assess the comparative effectiveness and improve the quality of care of patients with endocrine-related disorders. She is the Association of Endocrine Surgeons research committee chair and executive council member and the President of the Association of Academic Surgery. 

The doctor’s overarching research mission has been to improve the health and well-being of patients with benign and malignant endocrine-related diseases. Her current projects involve identifying appropriate and effective diagnostic, surgical, and surveillance strategies for patients with primary hyperaldosteronism and thyroid cancer.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and other body systems. A general surgeon performs a wide range of surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and biliary disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.

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