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May 30, 2021

Dr. Angela M. Leung is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and an endocrinologist at both UCLA and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.

After pursuing her undergraduate studies at Occidental College, Dr. Leung completed her internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship training at Boston University School of Medicine. She also studied at the Boston University School of Public Health and obtained a master's degree in Epidemiology.

Dr. Leung has particular clinical and research interests in thyroid disorders, and she also sees patients regarding parathyroid and adrenal disorders.  She has published widely and lectures frequently on thyroid disease, including hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer, and thyroid disease during pregnancy.

In this episode, the following topics are explained:

  • Optimizing thyroid health prior to conception
  • Thyroid issues that affect pregnancy
  • Hypothyroid as result of surgery or Hashimotos
  • Hyperthyroidism and pregnancy
  • Adjusting current thyroid treatment, meaning optimizing thyroid levels by adjusting dosage of thyroid medication
  • TSH levels in light of pregnancy
  • Planned pregnancy usually means a dose increase
  • What happens if someone does not get treatment during pregnancy?
  • Hypothyroidism and the fetus
  • Brain development for the fetus
  • Lower IQ scores and hypothyroid in pregnancy
  • CATS study from UK and Italy
  • Iodine and pregnancy
  • Iodine intake prior to pregnancy
  • Armour thyroid and pregnancy
  • Concerns regarding animal derived thyroid replacement
    TSH levels

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Dr. Angela Leung

CATS study

American Thyroid Association

49: Thyroid and Pregnancy⎥Why It Matters, with Dr. Elizabeth Pearce from Boston University

May 30, 2021

Dr. Amanda Laird, MD is an endocrine surgeon and Chief of Endocrine Surgery at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is currently licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey and New York. She is affiliated with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Hospital.

In this interview, Dr. Laird reflects on a decade of treating papillary thyroid cancer patients and reports none have died.  In this interview we also explore these questions:

  1. Prognosis and what will happen in the long run and quality of life.
  2. Surgery complications.
  3. Levothyroxine side-effects, including weight gain. 
  4. Life after surgery and RAI.
  5. What causes thyroid cancer.
  6. What time of day to take thyroid replacement medication.
  7. What blood tests should be ordered and is fasting necessary prior to thyroid lab work.

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Amanda Laird, MD

American Thyroid Association 

 

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