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Our leading parathyroid doctors and surgeons use highly-sophisticated CT Imaging technology to look at your parathyroid disease. With ground-breaking 4D solutions, we can assess your condition and guide your treatment. After all, your care deserves our enhanced focus.

Caring for your parathyroid disease starts with seeing you more clearly. At UCLA Health we have among the top endocrine doctors and advanced imaging technology to care for you.

A record of advanced care.

Performing over 500 parathyroid surgeries per year.

If you need surgery, you need experienced doctors and surgeons. And that’s what we provide our patients. At UCLA Health, your doctors are knowledgeable and a plan to treat parathyroid disease is tailored for you.

Meet the super doctors in parathyroid surgery

Work with some of the top surgeons in the nation for your treatment.

Masha J. Livhits, MD

Michael W. Yeh, MD

Kyle A. Zanocco, MD

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Our specialists perform minimally-invasive parathyroid surgery. We monitor your hormone levels in real-time during surgery to guide your treatment. It’s what happens when you combine the top doctors with innovative research and advanced technology.

One of the top 5 ranked endocrinology hospitals in the nation.

At UCLA Health, our parathyroid disease experts use breakthrough research and world-renowned care to provide you with a treatment plan. Our exceptionally skilled and compassionate doctors and surgeons are here to help. Let the top doctors at one of the nation's best hospitals be on your team.

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Because you deserve top care.

For your convenience we offer parathyroid pre-screening and post-surgery care via virtual visits. Our outpatient parathyroid surgery at UCLA Health can be performed in about an hour. With minimally-invasive surgical methods, your recovery can be faster. From first consultation to post-op check-ins, we work to exceed your health care needs.

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Masha J. Livhits, MD

Specialty: Endocrine Surgery

Dr. Masha Livhits is an Endocrine Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCLA. An exceptional achiever since childhood, she attended college at the age of 12 through the highly competitive Early Entrance Program at California State University, Los Angeles. She then received her medical degree at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and was awarded the prestigious Sarnoff Foundation genetics research grant.

Dr. Livhits completed her general surgery training and endocrine surgery fellowship at UCLA. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a member of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Livhits has published widely in the area of improving surgical outcomes and quality of care. She is dedicated to combining knowledge learned through research with her experience as a surgeon to deliver better are to her patients. Her clinical and research interests include parathyroid disease, benign and malignant thyroid tumors, adrenal masses, and familial endocrine disorders. She helped to pioneer the new technique of single incision retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy in North America. She has an ongoing clinical trial to study molecular testing for thyroid nodules.

Primary Office

Endocrine Center

100 UCLA Medical Plaza

Suite 310

Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Secondary Office

Westlake Village Primary & Specialty Care

1250 La Venta Dr.

Suite 207

Westlake Village, CA 91361

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Michael W. Yeh, MD

Specialty: Endocrine Surgery

Dr. Michael W. Yeh established the UCLA Endocrine Surgery Program in 2006. Under his leadership, the Program has gained national and international recognition for clinical excellence in the management of complex endocrine diseases.

After pursuing his studies at Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Yeh trained in general surgery at UC San Francisco. He then completed the prestigious T.S. Reeve International Fellowship in endocrine surgery at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Yeh is an expert in minimally invasive parathyroid surgery, thyroid cancer, and adrenal tumors, including pheochromocytoma and adrenocortical carcinoma. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters on these topics.

Primary Office

Revlon Breast Center

100 UCLA Medical Plaza

Suite 310

Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Kyle A. Zanocco, MD

Specialty: Endocrine Surgery

Dr. Kyle Zanocco is a board-certified, fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon. After graduating with distinction in research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Dr. Zanocco received his surgical residency training at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He then completed a clinical fellowship in endocrine surgery at UCLA.

An accomplished surgical outcomes researcher, Dr. Zanocco has published and lectured extensively on developing optimal strategies for the treatment of thyroid cancer and hyperparathyroidism. He currently sits on the American Thyroid Association Clinical Affairs Committee and serves as an ad hoc peer reviewer for the journals Surgery and Thyroid.

Primary Office

UCLA Revlon Breast Center

100 UCLA Medical Plaza

Suite 310

Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Secondary Office

Surgery - Santa Monica

1304 15th St.