Elizabeth Gardner Grubbs

Elizabeth Gardner Grubbs is a Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she specializes in surgical oncology and endocrine surgery. Her research focuses on thyroid disease, including anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, medullary thyroid carcinoma, and germline RET pathogenic variants. She has developed the Thyroid Cancer Quality of Life Index and investigates thyroid C-cell biology and oncogenic transformation. Her recent work addresses deceptive thyroid pathologies and systemic therapies for advanced disease. She contributes to the American Thyroid Association and publishes extensively on surgical and oncologic thyroid management.