Sareh Parangi

Dr. Parangi is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a busy endocrine surgeon at Newton Wellesley Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. She currently serves as Chair of Surgery at Newton Wellesley Hospital. She has interest and expertise in thyroid tumors and hyperparathyroidism. She focuses her clinical efforts on endocrine surgery and applies her basic science knowledge and expertise to tumor progression in thyroid cancer. Dr. Parangi has repeatedly been one of the Boston surgeons named in Best of Boston in Boston Magazine and her excellence in both research and her clinical expertise have earned her a national and international reputation.

Dr. Parangi graduated from Barnard College and earned her medical degree from Columbia University. She completed her residency at UCSF during which she completed a Fellowship in Molecular Medicine. She is one of a handful of thyroid surgeons with expertise in molecular biology and has over 100 publications, many on thyroid cancer therapeutics in premiere journals. She serves as Chair of Surgery at Newton Wellesley Hospital where she is part of strategic planning and decision making at the highest levels of the organization. Her other leadership roles include Co-Director of Diversity and Inclusion in the MGH Department of Surgery.

She is currently the Immediate Past President of The Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) and has in the past served as Treasurer of the most prestigious organization of endocrine surgeons in the US, The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES). She is also Secretary of the International Thyroid Oncology Group and a member of both the American Thyroid Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. She has won numerous awards nationally and at Harvard Medical School for her NIH funded research in the role of BRAF oncoprotein in thyroid cancer invasion. Her active research focuses on understanding why some patients with thyroid cancer do worse than others and how to help them.

Dr. Parangi is active in many organizations that promote gender equity and diversity in surgery and medicine because she feels there is still a large need in promoting women and those underrepresented in medicine to leadership positions in academia and surgical organizations. She believes that although the promotion of a diverse workforce in surgical subspecialties has been slow which is obvious to her given her personal story on becoming the 2nd ever female Professor of Surgery at MGH, now is the time to institute bigger systematic changes that will ensure the best and the brightest get attracted to and succeed in surgery.