Marika Russell, MD
Assoc Prof of Clinical OHNS
Office of the CEO
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Dr. Russell received her medical degree from Columbia University in New York, and she completed both a one-year General Surgery internship and a residency in Otolaryngology at UCSF. Her clinical area of expertise is in thyroid/parathyroid surgery, including surgeon-performed ultrasound. Dr. Russell is a national leader in head and neck ultrasound education.

Dr. Russell’s research interests include outcomes and disparities in the treatment of benign and malignant conditions of the head and neck.

Dr. Russell is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the American Head and Neck Society, the American Thyroid Association, and is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.

Specialty: Thyroid/parathyroid surgery

Expertise: Head and neck oncologic and endocrine surgery, thyroid surgery, including surgeon-performed ultrasound

Professional Interests: Head and neck cancer and endocrine surgery, disparities in health care, delivery system improvement

Education and Training:

• Medical School: Columbia University, New York, NY
• Internship: University of California, San Francisco – General Surgery
• Residency: University of California, San Francisco – Otolaryngology
• Medical licensure, California
• American Board of Otolaryngology Certification

• The INMSG Survey on the Loss of Signal Management on the First Side During Planned Bilateral Thyroid Surgery.
  Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale 2024 Huang TY, Tseng HY, Frattini F, Russell MD, Ahmed AHA, Weber F, Wierzbicka P, Lu IC, Jung KY, Makay Ö, Chai YJ, Chiang FY, Schneider R, Barczynski M, Dralle H, Randolph GW, Wu CW, Dionigi G
• Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring.
  50 Landmark Papers every Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgeon Should Know 2023 Marika D. Russell, Rick Schneider, Che-Wei Wu, Amr H. Abdelhamid Ahmed, Gregory W. Randolph
• Electrophysiologic RLN and Vagal Monitoring During Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery.
  Atlas of Intraoperative Cranial Nerve Monitoring in Thyroid and Head and Neck Surgery 2023 Amanda Silver Karcioglu, Marika D. Russell, Amr H. Abdelhamid Ahmed, Gregory W. Randolph
• A phase 2 study of neoadjuvant lenvatinib in locally advanced invasive thyroid cancer.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2023 Amr Hesham Abdelhamid Ahmed, Marika D. Russell, Natalia Kyriazidis, Amanda Silver Karcioglu, Eric Jeffrey Sherman, Alan Loh Ho, James A Fagin, Richard J. Wong, Naifa Lamki Busaidy, Mark E. Zafereo, …
• Preoperative Evaluation of Thyroid Cancer: A Review of Current Best Practices.
  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2023 Russell MD, Shonka DC, Noel J, Karcioglu AS, Ahmed AH, Angelos P, Atkins K, Bischoff L, Buczek E, Caulley L, Freeman J, Kroeker T, Liddy W, McIver B, McMullen C, Nikiforov Y, Orloff L, Scharpf J, Shah…
• In brief.
  Current Problems in Surgery 2023 Andrea Gillis, Brenessa Lindeman, Marika D. Russell, Basit A. Jawad, David L. Steward, Brendan C. Stack
• African Head and Neck Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Thyroid Nodules and Cancer in Developing Countries and Limited Resource Settings.
  Practical Management of Thyroid Cancer 2023 Johannes J. Fagan, Mark Zafereo, Kathryn Marcus, Marika D. Russell, Gregory Randolph
• The difficult parathyroid: advice to find elusive gland(s) and avoid or navigate reoperation.
  Current problems in surgery 2022 Gillis A, Lindeman B, Russell MD, Jawad BA, Steward DL, Stack BC
• Thyroid cancer survivorship: the patient experience.
  Annals of Thyroid 2022 Marika D. Russell, Amanda Silver Karcioglu
• Ultrasonography of the thyroid, parathyroids, and beyond.
  HNO 2022 Russell MD, Orloff LA
• Breast and thyroid cancer: A multicenter study with Accrual to Clinical Trials Network.
  Journal of surgical oncology 2022 Peckham M, Spencer HJ, Syed S, Armstrong WB, Farwell DG, Gal TJ, Goldenberg D, Russell MD, Solis RN, King D, Stack BC
• Radiofrequency ablation and related ultrasound-guided ablation technologies for treatment of benign and malignant thyroid disease: An international multidisciplinary consensus statement of the American Head and Neck Society Endocrine Surgery Section with the Asia Pacific Society of Thyroid Surgery, Associazione Medici Endocrinologi, British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons, European Thyroid Association, Italian Society of Endocrine Surgery Units, Korean Society of Thyroid Radiology, Latin American Thyroid Society, and Thyroid Nodules Therapies Association.
  Head & neck 2021 Orloff LA, Noel JE, Stack BC, Russell MD, Angelos P, Baek JH, Brumund KT, Chiang FY, Cunnane MB, Davies L, Frasoldati A, Feng AY, Hegedüs L, Iwata AJ, Kandil E, Kuo J, Lombardi C, Lupo M, Maia AL, …
• 12 Fine-Needle Aspiration and Molecular Analysis.
  2021 Benjamin J. Gigliotti, Marika D. Russell, David Shonka, Nikolaos Stathatos
• Diagnosis and Management of Thyroiditis: Hashimoto, de Quervain, Riedel.
  2021 Marika D. Russell, Janet Chiang
• Parathyroid Glands: Anatomy, Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Ultrasound.
  2021 Marika D. Russell, Gregory W. Randolph
• Intraoperative nerve monitoring in surgery for thyroid cancer.
  Annals of Thyroid 2020 Marika D Russell, Dipti Kamani, Gregory W Randolph
• Tracheostomy guidelines developed at a large academic medical center during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Head & neck 2020 David AP, Russell MD, El-Sayed IH, Russell MS
• Customized registry tool for tracking adherence to clinical guidelines for head and neck cancers: protocol for a pilot study.
  Pilot and feasibility studies 2020 Hickey MD, Lisker S, Brodie S, Vittinghoff E, Russell MD, Sarkar U
• Modern surgery for advanced thyroid cancer: a tailored approach.
  Gland surgery 2020 Russell MD, Kamani D, Randolph GW
• Surgical management of the compromised recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroid cancer.
  Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism 2019 Russell MD, Kamani D, Randolph GW
• Socioeconomic disparities in a population of patients undergoing total thyroidectomy for benign disease.
  Head & neck 2018 Wu TJ, Ha PK, El-Sayed IH, George JR, Heaton CM, Ryan WR, Russell MD
• Urgent Infections of the Head and Neck.
  The Medical clinics of North America 2018 Russell MD, Russell MS
• A cohort study of a general surgery electronic consultation system: safety implications and impact on surgical yield.
  BMC health services research 2017 Ulloa JG, Russell MD, Chen AH, Tuot DS
• Impact of a pediatric anesthesiologist on operating room efficiency during pediatric tonsillectomies and adenotonsillectomies.
  Ear, nose, & throat journal 2017 Dewyer NA, Kram YA, Long S, Russell MD
• Attitudes toward Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination and Head and Neck Cancer Prevention in a Diverse, Urban Population.
  Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2015 Kram YA, Schmidt TH, Saghezchi S, Russell MD
• Single-stage, double-conduit microvascular pharyngotracheal reconstruction.
  Journal of reconstructive microsurgery 2014 Kram YA, Russell MS, Russell MD, Knott PD
• Pediatric Anesthesiologists Increase Operating Room Efficiency for Pediatric Adenotonsillectomies.
  Otolaryngology 2014 Nicholas A. Dewyer, Marika D. Russell
• Occult nodal disease in patients with failed laryngeal preservation undergoing surgical salvage.
  The Laryngoscope 2013 Koss SL, Russell MD, Leem TH, Schiff BA, Smith RV
• Comparison of L-strut preservation in endonasal and endoscopic septoplasty: a cadaveric study.
  International forum of allergy & rhinology 2013 Russell MD, Kangelaris GT
• What is the evidence for use of antibiotic prophylaxis in clean-contaminated head and neck surgery?
  The Laryngoscope 2012 Russell MD, Goldberg AN
• Postoperative packing after septoplasty: is it necessary?
  Otolaryngologic clinics of North America 2009 Dubin MR, Pletcher SD
• Image-guided endoscopic orbital decompression for Graves' orbitopathy.
  The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology 2008 Dubin MR, Tabaee A, Scruggs JT, Kazim M, Close LG
• Liposarcoma of the tongue: case report and review of the literature.
  Head & face medicine 2006 Dubin MR, Chang EW