Geeta Lal, MD, MSc
Professor of Surgery - Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery
Introduction
Geeta Lal Surgical Oncology Laboratory- http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/lallab/
Current Positions
- Professor of Surgery - Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Endocrine Surgeon
Education
- BS in Summa cum Laude, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
- MD in Honors, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- MSc, University of Toronto and The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Ontario, Canada
- Resident in General Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Fellow in Endocrine Surgical Oncology, Mt. Zion Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco
Licenses & Certifications
- Board Certified, General Surgery, American Board of Surgery
- Iowa Medical License, Iowa Board of Medical Examiners
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
- Specialist Certification - General Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Canada
- College of Physicians & Surgeons of Ontario (independent practice)
- Medical Board of California
- Clinician Investor Program, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Canada
Selected Publications
- Jacovides CL, Guetter CR, Crandall M, McGuire K, Slama EM, Plotkin A, Kashyap MV, Lal G, Henry MC; Association of Women Surgeons Publications Committee. Overcoming Barriers: Sex Disparity in Surgeon Ergonomics. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 May 1;238(5):971-979. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000001043. Epub 2024 Apr 17. PMID: 38511681.
- Andrea Merrill, Philip Haigh, Lal G., Lessons from the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) ergonomics panel: Operating is a pain in the neck … and other places, The American Journal of Surgery, Volume 234, 2024, Pages 186-188, ISSN 0002-9610, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.02.038.
- Lal G. Living your ikigai: My journey into surgical ergonomics. Am J Surg. 2024 Sep;235:115724. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.03.020. Epub 2024 Apr 15. PMID: 38749847.
- Alimi Y and Lal G. Surgical Ergonomics in Sabiston’s Textbook of Surgery. In press 2024
- Garneau M, Alyzadneh E, Lal G, Rajan Kd A. (2023). Metastatic Disease to a Concurrent Thyroid Neoplasm: A Case Series and Review of the Literature. Head Neck Pathol. 2023 Jun;17(2):447-459. DOI: 10.1007/s12105-022-01509-7. Epub 2023 Jan 31. PMID: 36719557; PMCID: PMC10293528.
- Yadav SK, Lal G, Jain SB, Jha CK, Corwin C, Van Gorp B, Sharma CK, Kumar A, Sinha DK. (2023). Indian surgery Trainee's perspective on surgical ergonomics principles and education: A long road ahead. American Journal of Surgery. 2023 Nov;226(5):735-740. DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.05.037. Epub 2023 Jun 7. PMID: 37308348.
- Tetteh E, Wang T, Kim JY, Smith T, Norasi H, Van Straaten MG, Lal G, Chrouser KL, Shao JM, Hallbeck MS. (2023). Optimizing ergonomics during open, laparoscopic, and robotic-assisted surgery: A review of surgical ergonomics literature and development of educational illustrations. American Journal of Surgery. 2023 Nov 10:S0002-9610(23)00589-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.11.005. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37981518.
- Lal G. (2023). The society of surgical ergonomics journey: How did we get here? American Journal of Surgery. 2023 Oct 5:S0002-9610(23)00499-3. DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.09.043. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37880027.
- Jensen, M. J., Liao, J., Van Gorp, B., Sugg, S. L., Shelton, J., Corwin, C. & Lal, G. (2021). Incorporating Surgical Ergonomics Education into Surgical Residency Curriculum. Journal of surgical education 78 (4) 1209-1215. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2020.11.004. PMID: 33221251.
- Utria, A. F., Goffredo, P., Belding-Schmitt, M., Liao, J., Shilyansky, J. & Lal, G. (2020). Practice Patterns and Outcomes of Pediatric Thyroid Surgery: An NSQIP Analysis. The Journal of surgical research 255 181-187. DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2020.05.056. PMID: 32563758.