Patricia Conroy, MD
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Surgery
School of Medicine

Patricia C. Conroy, MD is a general surgery resident at UCSF planning to pursue a fellowship in endocrine surgery. Dr. Conroy received her BS in Biology from Stanford University and her MD from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 2017.

Awards

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• Outstanding Resident Research Award - Basic Science, Association for Academic Surgery, 2022
• Outstanding Resident Teacher Award, Association for Surgical Education, 2022
• Surgical Oncology T32 Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2021-2022
• Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) TL1 Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2020-2021
• Medical Student Teaching Award, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, 2020
• Medical Student Teaching Award, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, 2019
• H. William Scott, Jr. Prize in Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Department of Surgery, 2017
• Outstanding Medical Student Poster Award, First Place for Basic Science Research, American College of Surgeons, 2016
• Student Abstract Prize, American Gastroenterological Association, 2016
• Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2013-2017

Education & Training

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• General Surgery Residency University of California, San Francisco 06/2024
• M.D. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 05/2017
• B.S. Biology Stanford University 06/2013

Interests

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• Surgical Oncology
• Endocrine Surgery

Publications (34)

Top publication keywords:
Retroperitoneal NeoplasmsCarcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalVocal Cord DysfunctionPancreaticoduodenectomyThyroid NeoplasmsCastleman DiseasePeer GroupJejunostomyMalnutritionSurgeonsPancreatectomyPancreatic NeoplasmsHyperaldosteronismJejunumAdenocarcinoma

• Evaluation of Culture Conducive to Academic Success by Gender at a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
  The oncologist 2024 Keenan BP, Sibley A, Zhang L, Westring AF, Velazquez AI, Bank EM, Bergsland EK, Boreta L, Conroy P, Daras M, Hermiston M, Hsu G, Paris PL, Piawah S, Sinha S, Sosa JA, Tsang M, Venook AP, Wong M, Yom …
• Nerve monitoring in endocrine surgery: Practice patterns differ among surgeons for parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy.
  Surgery 2023 Conroy PC, Wilhelm A, Rajwani T, Mulder M, Gosnell J, Shen WT, Duh QY, Roman S, Sosa JA
• A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Predict Textbook Outcome in Colectomy.
  Diseases of the colon and rectum 2023 Ashraf Ganjouei A, Romero-Hernandez F, Conroy PC, Miller PN, Calthorpe L, Wang JJ, Lin JJ, Feng J, Kirkwood KS, Alseidi A, Sarin A, Adam MA
• Routine use of intraoperative nerve monitoring is associated with a reduced risk of vocal cord dysfunction after thyroid cancer surgery.
  BMC surgery 2023 Wilhelm A, Conroy PC, Calthorpe L, Frye W, Sosa JA, Roman S
• ASO Visual Abstract: National Practice Patterns in Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma-Updates in Management and Survival.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2023 Calthorpe L, Romero-Hernandez F, Casey M, Nunez M, Conroy PC, Hirose K, Kim A, Kirkwood K, Maker AV, Corvera C, Nakakura E, Alseidi A, Adam MA

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• National Practice Patterns in Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: Updates in Management and Survival.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2023 Calthorpe L, Romero-Hernandez F, Casey M, Nunez M, Conroy PC, Hirose K, Kim A, Kirkwood K, Maker AV, Corvera C, Nakakura E, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Hypertension Requiring Medication Use: a Silent Predictor of Poor Outcomes After Pancreaticoduodenectomy.
  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2023 Lin JJ, Conroy PC, Romero-Hernandez F, Yilma M, Feng J, Hirose K, Nakakura E, Maker AV, Corvera C, Kirkwood K, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Contemporary Trends in Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: Incidence and Survival in the United States.
  Cancers 2022 Calthorpe L, Romero-Hernandez F, Miller P, Conroy PC, Hirose K, Kim A, Kirkwood K, Nakakura E, Corvera C, Maker AV, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Implementation, evaluation, and modification of a near-peer learning group in graduate surgical education.
  American journal of surgery 2022 Conroy PC, Mohamedaly S, Karimzada M, Brian R, Im C, Hernandez S, Roman S, Hirose K, Mukhtar R, Kirkwood K, O'Sullivan P, Alseidi A
• Hand-Assisted Versus Pure Minimally-Invasive Distal Pancreatectomy: Is There a Downside to Lending a Hand?
  World journal of surgery 2022 Miller PN, Romero-Hernandez F, Conroy P, Calthorpe L, Yilma M, Mohamedaly S, Kelly YM, Feng J, Hirose K, Kirkwood K, Maker AV, Corvera C, Nakakura E, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Disease-Specific Survival Trends for Patients Presenting with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer and Distant Metastases in the United States, 1992-2018.
  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2022 Wilhelm A, Conroy PC, Calthorpe L, Shui AM, Kitahara CM, Roman SA, Sosa JA
• Minimally Invasive Distal Pancreatectomy Techniques: A Contemporary Analysis Exploring Trends, Similarities, and Differences to Open Surgery.
  Cancers 2022 Romero-Hernandez F, Mohamedaly S, Miller P, Rodriguez N, Calthorpe L, Conroy PC, Ganjouei AA, Hirose K, Maker AV, Nakakura E, Corvera C, Kirkwood KS, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Accurate Identification of Mucinous Pancreatic Cystic Lesions Using Small-Volume Analytes.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Caiazza F, Conroy PC, Ivry SL, York T, Lin J, Hernandez S, Hoffmann TJ, Francis SS, Park WG, Yip-Schneider MT, Schmidt CM, Brand R, Craik CS, Kirkwood K
• Surgical Skills Coaches: Preparing for a peer-assisted learning model to train medical students in surgical skills.
  American journal of surgery 2022 Kim EK, Conroy PC, Johnson CL, Kelly Y, O'Sullivan PS, Chern H, Piper ML
• Endocrine surgeons are performing more thyroid lobectomies for low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer since the 2015 ATA guidelines.
  Surgery 2022 Conroy PC, Wilhelm A, Calthorpe L, Ullmann TM, Davis S, Huang CY, Shen WT, Gosnell J, Duh QY, Roman S, Sosa JA
• Fetal therapies and trials for lysosomal storage diseases: a survey of attitudes of parents and patients.
  Orphanet journal of rare diseases 2022 Schwab ME, Brown JEH, Lianoglou B, Jin C, Conroy PC, Gallagher RC, Harmatz P, MacKenzie TC
• ASO Visual Abstract: Determining Hospital Volume Threshold for the Safety of Minimally Invasive Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Contemporary Cutpoint Analysis.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2022 Conroy PC, Calthorpe L, Lin JA, Mohamedaly S, Kim A, Hirose K, Nakakura E, Corvera C, Sosa JA, Sarin A, Kirkwood KS, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Using the Comprehensive Complication Index to Rethink the ISGLS Criteria for Post-hepatectomy Liver Failure in an International Cohort of Major Hepatectomies.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Calthorpe L, Rashidian N, Cacciaguerra AB, Conroy PC, Hibi T, Hilal MA, Hoffman D, Park KM, Wang J, Adam MA, Alseidi A, International Post-Hepatectomy Liver Failure Study Group
• Evaluation of Necrosis as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Indicator in Adrenocortical Carcinoma.
  JAMA surgery 2021 Pearlstein SS, Conroy PC, Menut KC, Kim J, Graves CE, Ruiz-Cordero R, Duh QY
• ASO Author Reflections: An Objective Hospital Volume Threshold for Minimally Invasive Pancreaticoduodenectomy.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2021 Conroy PC, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Determining Hospital Volume Threshold for Safety of Minimally Invasive Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Contemporary Cutpoint Analysis.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2021 Conroy PC, Calthorpe L, Lin JA, Mohamedaly S, Kim A, Hirose K, Nakakura E, Corvera C, Sosa JA, Sarin A, Kirkwood KS, Alseidi A, Adam MA
• Screening for Primary Aldosteronism is Underutilized in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
  The American journal of medicine 2021 Conroy PC, Hernandez S, Graves CE, Menut KC, Pearlstein S, Liu C, Shen WT, Gosnell J, Sosa JA, Roman S, Duh QY, Suh I
• Bursting the Hidden Curriculum Bubble: A Surgical Near-Peer Mentorship Pilot Program for URM Medical Students.
  Journal of surgical education 2021 Hernandez S, Nnamani Silva ON, Conroy P, Weiser L, Thompson A, Mohamedaly S, Coe TM, Alseidi A, Campbell AR, Sosa JA, Gosnell J, Lin MYC, Roman SA
• Screening for primary aldosteronism in the hypertensive obstructive sleep apnea population is cost-saving.
  Surgery 2021 Chomsky-Higgins Menut K, Pearlstein SS, Conroy PC, Roman SA, Shen WT, Gosnell J, Sosa JA, Duh QY, Suh I
• Evidence-Based Guidelines for Branch-Duct Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm Management: Still a Lot of Room to Grow.
  JAMA surgery 2021 Conroy PC, Nakakura E
• Unifying the Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Fellowship Curriculum via Delphi Consensus.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Park KM, Rashidian N, Mohamedaly S, Brasel KJ, Conroy P, Glencer AC, He J, Passeri MJ, Katariya NN, Alseidi A, TrainHPB research group
• Jejunal prolapse and incarceration following feeding tube exchange.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2020 Conroy PC, Colley A, Bongiovanni T, Chang TT, Harris H
• Symptomatic duodenal web diagnosed in a young adult
  Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports 2020 Conroy PC, Onwubiko C, Vu L
• Enhancing Recovery After Kasai Portoenterostomy With Epidural Analgesia.
  The Journal of surgical research 2019 Phelps HM, Robinson JR, Chen H, Luckett TR, Conroy PC, Gillis LA, Hays SR, Lovvorn HN
• Rapid resolution of hyperammonemia in neonates using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a platform to drive hemodialysis.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 2018 Robinson JR, Conroy PC, Hardison D, Hamid R, Grubb PH, Pietsch JB, Lovvorn HN
• An Incidental Hypervascular Retroperitoneal Mass.
  JAMA surgery 2017 Costacurta PW, Shaver AC, Idrees K
• Using 3D Organoid Cultures to Model Intestinal Physiology and Colorectal Cancer.
  Current colorectal cancer reports 2017 Short SP, Costacurta PW, Williams CS
• Circadian rhythm. Dysrhythmia in the suprachiasmatic nucleus inhibits memory processing.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2014 Fernandez F, Lu D, Ha P, Costacurta P, Chavez R, Heller HC, Ruby NF
• Establishing a patient navigator program to reduce cancer disparities in the American Indian communities of Western South Dakota: initial observations and results.
  Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center 2008 Petereit DG, Molloy K, Reiner ML, Helbig P, Cina K, Miner R, Spotted Tail C, Rost C, Conroy P, Roberts CR