Juan Pablo Brito, MBBS, assistant professor and health-care delivery scholar in the division of endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism and nutrition at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, where he also is co-investigator of the Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit. He is lead author of “Thyroid Cancer: Zealous Imaging Has Increased Detection and Treatment of Low Risk Tumours,” which appeared in BMJ.
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