Leon Goldman, MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair, Dept of Surgery
UCSF
San Francisco, CA, United States
Julie Ann Sosa, MD MA FACS is the Leon Goldman MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where she is also a Professor in the Department of Medicine and affiliated faculty for the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Her clinical interest is in endocrine surgery, with a focus in thyroid cancer. She is an NIH- and FDA-funded investigator and author of more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and 80 book chapters and reviews, all largely focused on outcomes research, health care delivery, hyperparathyroidism, and thyroid cancer, with a focus on clinical trials. She has authored or edited seven books. Dr Sosa has served on the Board of Directors of the International Thyroid Oncology Group; for the ATA, she co-chaired the committee responsible for writing the 2025 practice guidelines for the management of adult patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. She is a past-President of the American Thyroid Association (ATA). She has mentored more than 100 students, residents, and fellows, for which she was recognized with induction as a full member to the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Educators in 2020, and by the ATA with the Lewis E. Braverman Distinguished Lectureship Award in 2017 and its Distinguished Service Award in 2022. She received the Chancellor’s Diversity Award in 2022 for the Advancement of Women at UCSF and the AAMC recognized UCSF Surgery and its Muriel Steele Society with the Group on Women in Medicine and Science Leadership Award for an Emerging Organization in 2025. Dr Sosa was born in Montreal and raised in upstate New York. She received her AB at Princeton, MA at Oxford, and MD at Johns Hopkins, where she completed the Halsted residency and a fellowship.
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Sunday, June 14, 2026
5:38 PM - 6:00 PM CT