About Roy Phitayakorn, MD
Dr. Roy Phitayakorn completed his residency training in general surgery at Case Western Reserve University in 2009 and completed an endocrine surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011. Dr. Phitayakorn is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School with a practice in general surgery and endocrine surgery at the main campus of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Phitayakorn is also the MGH Department of Surgery Director of Medical Student Education and Surgical Education Research and the Co-Director of the American College of Surgeons-accredited MGH Surgery Education Research and Simulation Fellowship program.
Dr. Phitayakorn has a Master’s degree in Medical Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago (MHPE). His MHPE thesis won the best thesis award in 2007 and best presentation at the 2008 MHPE medical education conference. Dr. Phitayakorn was the first Surgical Simulation Fellow at the MGH Learning Laboratory and completed a certificate in simulation-based teaching from the MGH Institutes of Health Professions in 2011.
Dr. Phitayakorn is an external examination consultant for the American Board of Surgery and develops medical education content for the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Phitayakorn is also a faculty member for several national medical education courses and institutions including the Harvard Macy Institute, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgeons as Educators course, the Institute of Medical Simulation, the ACS Surgical Education Principles and Practice course, and the ACS Certificate in Applied Surgical Education Leadership.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Adrenal disease
- General and gastrointestinal surgery
- Neck dissection
- Parathyroid disease
- Parathyroid surgery
- Parathyroid tumors
- Thyroid cancer surgery
- Thyroid disorders
- Thyroid surgery
- Thyroid tumors
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-643-7935
Emerson Practice Associates
411 Massachusetts Ave
Suite 205
Acton, MA 01720
Medical Education
- MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Residency, Case Western Reserve University Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Surgery, American Board of Surgery
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Please see my PubMed summary at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=phitayakorn%20r
Publications
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Dr. Phitayakorn has written over 70 peer-reviewed publications and 10 book chapters and is co-author of the book, "Thyroid Disease (Biographies of Disease)."
Extremely informative and thoughtful.
Doctor is the best doctor
The doctor was wonderful. He came on right on time as we had planned. He explained everything about my possible surgery. He made me feel very comfortable and answered all my questions. I felt as though it was a very thorough visit.
This was amazing! Hands down the best doctor have ever been to. He was patient, understanding, and attended to us quickly. Cannot say enough great things!!
The provider was fantastic, easy to work with, very professional, funny kind of guy, easy to get along with, but really, really knew his stuff and I had complete confidence in his ability to take care of me.
Dr. Phitayakorn is amazing. I can't say enough good things about him. He is wonderful, he listens, he is extremely competent, expert at what he does. I had a completely flawless procedure from him and he is empathetic and listens well and he is also funny, but just amazing in every aspect of the care that I received. So highly, highly recommend ... Read More
Superb - would recommend highly to others
My appointment was the last on a Friday afternoon, and I was amazed at the amount of time that Dr. P. took with me. He carefully and in detail explained my medical situation.
Dr. Phitayakorn is knowledgeable, thorough, kind, caring and patient. He is easy to talk to and gives excellent and clear explanations.
I appreciated that he took the time explain what was going to happen during the procedure, and kept me informing during the procedure as far as what was happening next. He was so patient with all the questions I had, because I'm a very curious patient.