Department of Surgery Welcomes Endocrine Surgeon and Diversity Leader Sanziana A. Roman, MD to Faculty

The Department of Surgery welcomes endocrine surgeon Sanziana A. Roman, M.D., FACS to the faculty as a professor of Surgery in the Section of Endocrine Surgery, Division of General Surgery. Dr. Roman also has been appointed Director of Learning and Teaching in the Procedural Specialties and Dean’s Diversity Leader for Leadership Equity and Inclusion in the School of Medicine at UCSF. 

Dr. Roman's clinical interest is in endocrine and minimally invasive surgery, with a focus in thyroid and adrenal diseases, including pediatric and adult endocrine tumors. She is one of only a few high-volume adrenal surgeons in the country performing posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy (PRA), a procedure she helped to pioneer.

Dr. Roman is the author of more than 180 peer-reviewed publications in outcomes analysis, cost-effectiveness/decision analysis, meta-analysis, and survey-based methodologies, as well as clinical, translational and stem cell research.