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GREGG H. JOSSART M.D.
MINIMALLY INVASIVE/ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC
GASTROINTESTINAL AND BARIATRIC SURGERY
2100 WEBSTER STREET, SUITE #518
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115
OFFICE (415) 561-1310
FAX (415) 561-1713

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Moorhead State University
Moorhead, Minnesota
BAHonors, 1987 Chemistry

University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
MD, 1991

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Residency, 1998, General Surgery

Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, New York
Fellowship, 2002, Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1999 - Present, Advanced Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive General and Bariatric Surgeon.San Francisco, CA

1993-1995, Endocrine Surgery Research Fellow, University of California, San Francisco Orlo H. Clark, MD and Ulli Weier, MD in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Department of Molecular Cytogenetics. Thyroid Oncogenesis, specifically the application of molecular cytogenetic techniques to detect the presence of oncogenes in thyroid tumors.

1989-91, Independent Research, University of Minnesota Otitis Media Research CenterG. Scott Giebink, MD and Daniel M. Canafax, Pharm.D. Antimicrobial drug penetration in otitis media

1988-1989, Research Technician, University of Minnesota Medical SchoolScott Gruber, MD, Robert Cipolle, Pharm.D., & Daniel Canafax, Pharm.D. Local immunosuppression in canine renal allografts; heparin pharmacokinetics; and reviewing the incidence of malignancy in transplant recipients.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Minnesota Medical Foundation, George H. & Lilian K. Williams Scholarship. 1989-1990.
Minnesota Medical Foundation Student Research Grant, 1989.
Park Nicollet Medical Center Minnesota Medical Student Scholarship. 1990.
Viking Children's Fund Research Grant. 1991.
Minnesota Medical Foundation Undergraduate Student Research Award. 1991.

ARTICLES

Gruber SA, Cipolle RJ, Tzardis P, Skjei KL, Jossart GH, Abed JF, Canafax DM, Burke BA, Matas AF, Hrushesky WJM. Pharmacodynamics of local heparin delivery in a canine renal allograft model. J Pharm Exp Ther 1990; 252(2): 733-738.

Cipolle RJ, Uden DL, Gruber SA, Jossart GH, Taylor C, Erdmann GR, Canafax DM. Heparin pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics: evaluation of an integrated heparin dosing and monitoring system. Pharmacotherapy 1990; 10(6): 367-372.

Jossart GH, Erdmann GR, Levitt DG, Kucera P, Le CT, Juhn SK, Giebink GS and Canafax DM. An experimental model for measuring middle ear antimicrobial drug penetration. Pharm Res 1990; 7(12): 1242-1247.

Jossart GH, Canafax, DM, Erdmann GR, Lovdahl MJ, Russlie HQ, Juhn SK, Giebink GS. Effect of Streptococcus Pneumoniae and Influenza A Virus o middle ear antimicrobial pharmacokinetics in experimental otitis media. Pharm Res, 1994; 11(6): 860-864.

Grossman RF, Ban T, Duh QY, Tezelman S, Jossart GH, Soh EY, Clark OH and Siperstein AE. Immunoprecipitation isolates multiple TSH receptor forms from human thyroid. Thyroid 1995; 5(2): 101-105.

Jossart GH, Siperstein AE. Laparoscopic appendectomy. Sem Gastro Dis, 1994; 5(3): 146-149.

Jossart GH, Clark OH. Well-differentiated thyroid cancer. Curr Prob Surg 1994; 12: 933-1012.

Jossart GH, Greulich KM, Siperstein AE, Duh Q, Clark OH and Weier HW. Molecular and cytogenetic characterization of a t(1;10;21) translocation in the human papillary thyroid cancer cell line TPC-1 expressing the ret/H4 chimeric transcript. Surgery 1995; 118(6): 1018-1023.

Jossart GH, Epstein HW, Shaver JK, Greulich KM, Tezelman S, Grossman RF, Siperstein AE, Duh QY, and Clark OH. Immunocytochemical Detection of p53 in Human Thyroid Carcinomas is Associated with Mutation and Immortalization of Cell Lines. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 1996; 81(10): 3498-3504.

Jossart GH, O'Brien B, Cheng JF, Tong Q, Jhiang SM, Duh Q, Clark OH and Weier HU. A novel multicolor hybridization scheme applied to localization of a transcribed sequence (D10S170/H4) and deletion mapping in the thyroid cancer cell line TPC-1. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 1996; 75: 254-257.

Tezelman S, Hoelting T, Jossart GH, Wong MD, Siperstein AE, Duh QY, Clark OH. Heterologous desensitization in neoplastic thyroid cells: influence of the phospholipase C signal transduction system on the thyrotropin-adenylate cyclase signal transduction system. World Journal of Surgery 1998; 22(6): 544-551.

Zielke AS, Tezelman S, Jossart GH, Wong M, Siperstein AE, Duh QY, Clark OH. Establishment of a highly differentiated thyroid cancer cell line of Hurthle cell origin. Thyroid 1998; 8(6): 475-483.

Gerling MC, Jossart G, Duh QY, Weier HU, Clark OH, Young DM. Invasion of human follicular thyroid carcinoma cells in an in vivo invasion model. Thyroid 1999, 9(12): 1221-6.

Jossart GH, Gagner M. Pancreaticoduodenal Resection. J Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery 2000; 7(1): 21-27.

Jossart GH, Gagner M., Surgery of the Adrenal Glands. Endocrine Incidentalomas. Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America. Edited by David Aron, MD., W.B. Saunders Co. 2000; vol. 29(1): 57-68.

Roayaie S, Jossart G, Gitlitz D, Lamparello P, Hollier L, Gagner M. Laparoscopic release of celiac artery compression syndrome facilitated by laparoscopic ultrasound scanning to confirm restoration of flow. J Vasc Surg 2000, 32(4): 814-7.

de Csepel J, Jossart G, Salky BA. Laparoscopic Resection of an extraesophageal leiomyoma presenting as an intra-abdominal mass. Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech. 2001 Apr; 11(2): 116-8.

de Csepel J, Burpee S, Jossart G, Gagner M. Laparoscopic biliopancreatic diversoin with a duodenal switch for morbid obesity: a feasibility study in pigs. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2001 Apr; 11(2):79-83.

CHAPTERS

Jossart GH and Clark OH. Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. In: Wilmore D, Brennan M, Harken A, Holcroft J, Meakins J, eds. Scientific American Surgery. New York, NY: Scientific American, Spring, 1996.

Grossman RF, Jossart GH. Hypercalcemic Crisis. In: Duh Q, Clark O, eds. Textbook of Endocrine Surgery. First ed. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1997.

Jossart GH, Grossman RF. Thyroid Oncogenesis. In: Duh Q, Clark O, eds. Textbook of Endocrine Surgery. First ed. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1997.

Jossart GH and Clark OH. Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery (CD-ROM). In: Wilmore D, Brennan M, Harken A, Holcroft J, Meakins J, edScientific American Surgery. New York, NY: Scientific American (in press).

Jossart GH, Gagner M. Endoscopic Parathyroidectomy, In: Wackym PA, Rice DH, Schaefer SD, eds. Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Head, Neck and Cranial Base. First ed. Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia (in press).

Jossart GH, Gagner M. Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy, In: Holzheimer RG, Fingerhut A, eds. Evidence Based Surgery Textbook First ed. Springer Publishing House, New York (in preparation).

ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Jossart GH, Greulich KM, Siperstein AE, Duh Q, Clark OH and Weier HW. Molecular and cytogenetic Characterization of a t(1;10;21) translocation in the human papillary thyroid cancer cell line TPC-1 expressing the ret/H4 chimeric transcript. American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Philadelphia, PA. April 22-24, 1995.

Jossart GH, Erdmann GR, Le CT, Giebink GS, Juhn SK, Canafax DM. Effect of pH and protein binding on middle ear anti-microbial drug penetration. Fifth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, May 20-24, 1991.

Canafax DM, Jossart GH, Erdmann GR, Levitt DG, Kucera P, Le CT, Juhn SK, Giebink GS. A new model for measuring middle ear antimicrobial drug penetration. Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, February 4, 1990.

Jossart GH, Rabkin RA. A Laparoscopic procedure for biliopancreatic diversion(BPD) with duodenal switch. American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Memphis, Tennessee, June 2000.

Jossart GH, Nuglozeh-Buck, D, Rabkin RA. A laparoscopic technique for duodenal switch: Experience with 150 patients. Presented at Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, St. Louis, MO April, 2001.

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