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Benjamin J. Gigliotti, M.D.

Benjamin J. Gigliotti, M.D.

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

5 out of 5 stars
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Locations

Endocrinology - Rochester

Ambulatory Care Center at Strong Memorial Hospital
601 Elmwood Avenue, 3rd Floor
Rochester, NY 14620

Endocrinology - Brighton

Clinton Crossings, Building H
2400 South Clinton Avenue, Suite 135
Rochester, NY 14620

About Me

Dr. Ben Gigliotti received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Rochester, where he stayed on to train as a resident in Internal Medicine and to serve as chief resident. He completed his Endocrinology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital with a strong focus in thyroid...
Dr. Ben Gigliotti received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Rochester, where he stayed on to train as a resident in Internal Medicine and to serve as chief resident. He completed his Endocrinology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital with a strong focus in thyroid disorders under mentorship from the MGH Thyroid Unit. In 2018, he returned to the University of Rochester to join the faculty in the Endocrine Division and Department of Medicine.

Dr. Gigliotti is an academic clinical Endocrinologist/Thyroidologist and is the director of URMC's Wolk Thyroid Clinic. He has a passion for caring for patients with thyroid disorders, including thyroid cancers across the risk and age spectrum, thyroid nodules (including performance of fine needle aspiration biopsy), hyperthyroidism, and hypothyroidism, along with parathyroid/metabolic bone disorders and endocrine cancers and related hereditary cancer syndromes. He also cares for patients with diabetes, adrenal, pituitary, and reproductive diseases. He is privileged to work in a close multidisciplinary team at the University of Rochester with colleagues in endocrinology, endocrine surgery/otolaryngology, nuclear medicine, medical oncology, and radiation oncology. Dr. Gigliotti is a dedicated proponent of Engel and Romano's "Biopsychosocial model" and believes strongly in the value of longitudinal relationships and in caring for the whole patient, not just their disease(s).

Dr. Gigliotti's primary academic focus is medical education, and he is deeply committed to training the next generation of medical students, residents, and fellows. He currently serves as Block Leader for the Endocrinology disease block (in the 2nd year medical student "Disease Processes and Therapeutics" course).

Dr. Gigliotti is an active member in the American Thyroid Association, the Endocrine Society, and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, serving on various national committees. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Thyroid, and Endocrine Practice.

Faculty Appointments

Associate Professor - Department of Medicine, Endocrine/Metabolism (SMD)

Credentials

Residency & Fellowship

Fellowship, Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Harvard Medical School. 2015 - 2018

Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2012 - 2014

Internship, Internal Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2011 - 2012

Education

MD | University of Rochester School of Medicine/Dentistry (USA). 2011

Awards

Arthur W. Bauman Teaching Award. 2020

Primary Care Teaching Award. 2018

Clinical Fellows Excellence in Teaching Award. 2017

Nomination for the Partners Outstanding Resident/Fellow as Teacher Award. 2017 - 2018

Nomination for the Partners Outstanding Resident/Fellow as Teacher Award. 2016 - 2017

Jacob Holler Award. 2015

The Murphy Faculty Award. 2014

William L. Morgan Award. 2013

Class of 1990 Resident Teaching Award. 2013

Arnold P. Gold Foundation's Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award. 2012

David A. Hallar Award. 2012

Doran J. Stevens Prize. 2011

Dr. Charles Kochakian Award. 2011

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. 2010

Gold Humanism Honour Society. 2010

Disease Processes & Therapeutics Book Award. 2009

Golden Key International Honour Society. 2005

Research

Dr. Gigliotti's research background (fellowship) is in the molecular and microenvironmental profiling of thyroid cancers, along with the development of novel treatments/combination regimens for patients with advanced thyroid cancers, including the use of small molecule inhibitors and immunotherapies...
Dr. Gigliotti's research background (fellowship) is in the molecular and microenvironmental profiling of thyroid cancers, along with the development of novel treatments/combination regimens for patients with advanced thyroid cancers, including the use of small molecule inhibitors and immunotherapies.

Publications

Journal Articles

TREATMENT OF HYPOTHYROIDISM BY AGE AND SEX IN THE UNITED STATES: A NHANES AND OPTUM CLAIMS DATA ANALYSIS.

Tessnow AH, Gigliotti BJ, Perkins JM, Schneiderman CP, Pinsky B, Guo D, Barger B, Singh V, Flores OA, Wyne KL

Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.. 2024 December 10 Epub 12/10/2024.

Fundamentals and recent advances in the evaluation and management of medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Gigliotti BJ, Brooks JA, Wirth LJ

Molecular and cellular endocrinology.. 2024 October 1592 :112295. Epub 06/12/2024.

A Review of Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases and Their Complex Interplay with Female Fertility.

Carafone L, Knutson AJ, Gigliotti BJ

Seminars in reproductive medicine.. 2024 September 42 (3):178-192. Epub 12/12/2024.

Effectors Enabling Adaptation to Mitochondrial Complex I Loss in Hürthle Cell Carcinoma.

Gopal RK, Vantaku VR, Panda A, Reimer B, Rath S, To TL, Fisch AS, Cetinbas M, Livneh M, Calcaterra MJ, Gigliotti BJ, Pierce KA, Clish CB, Dias-Santagata D, Sadow PM, Wirth LJ, Daniels GH, Sadreyev RI, Calvo SE, Parangi S, Mootha VK

Cancer discovery.. 2023 August 413 (8):1904-1921. Epub 1900 01 01.

International multicentre review of perioperative management and outcome for catecholamine-producing tumours.

Groeben H, Walz MK, Nottebaum BJ, Alesina PF, Greenwald A, Schumann R, Hollmann MW, Schwarte L, Behrends M, Rössel T, Groeben C, Schäfer M, Lowery A, Hirata N, Yamakage M, Miller JA, Cherry TJ, Nelson A, Solorzano CC, Gigliotti B, Wang TS, Wietasch JKG, Friederich P, Sheppard B, Graham PH, Weingarten TN, Sprung J

The British journal of surgery.. 2020 January 107 (2):e170-e178. Epub 1900 01 01.

Anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy augments lenvatinib's efficacy by favorably altering the immune microenvironment of murine anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Gunda V, Gigliotti B, Ashry T, Ndishabandi D, McCarthy M, Zhou Z, Amin S, Lee KE, Stork T, Wirth L, Freeman GJ, Alessandrini A, Parangi S

International journal of cancer.. 2019 May 1144 (9):2266-2278. Epub 01/24/2019.

Combinations of BRAF inhibitor and anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibody improve survival and tumour immunity in an immunocompetent model of orthotopic murine anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Gunda V, Gigliotti B, Ndishabandi D, Ashry T, McCarthy M, Zhou Z, Amin S, Freeman GJ, Alessandrini A, Parangi S

British journal of cancer.. 2018 November 119 (10):1223-1232. Epub 10/17/2018.

Widespread Chromosomal Losses and Mitochondrial DNA Alterations as Genetic Drivers in Hürthle Cell Carcinoma.

Gopal RK, Kübler K, Calvo SE, Polak P, Livitz D, Rosebrock D, Sadow PM, Campbell B, Donovan SE, Amin S, Gigliotti BJ, Grabarek Z, Hess JM, Stewart C, Braunstein LZ, Arndt PF, Mordecai S, Shih AR, Chaves F, Zhan T, Lubitz CC, Kim J, Iafrate AJ, Wirth L, Parangi S, Leshchiner I, Daniels GH, Mootha VK, Dias-Santagata D, Getz G, McFadden DG

Cancer cell.. 2018 August 1334 (2):242-255.e5. Epub 1900 01 01.

PD-L1 and IDO1 Are Expressed in Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma.

Rosenbaum MW, Gigliotti BJ, Pai SI, Parangi S, Wachtel H, Mino-Kenudson M, Gunda V, Faquin WC

Endocrine pathology.. 2018 March 29 (1):59-67. Epub 1900 01 01.

Circulating BRAF Levels Correlate with Treatment in Patients with Thyroid Carcinoma.

Lubitz CC, Zhan T, Gunda V, Amin S, Gigliotti BJ, Fingeret AL, Holm TM, Wachtel H, Sadow PM, Wirth LJ, Sullivan RJ, Panka DJ, Parangi S

Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association.. 2018 March 28 (3):328-339. Epub 02/27/2018.

In vivo prostaglandin E2 treatment alters the bone marrow microenvironment and preferentially expands short-term hematopoietic stem cells.

Frisch BJ, Porter RL, Gigliotti BJ, Olm-Shipman AJ, Weber JM, O'Keefe RJ, Jordan CT, Calvi LM

Blood.. 2009 November 5114 (19):4054-63. Epub 09/02/2009.

Parathyroid hormone stimulates expression of the Notch ligand Jagged1 in osteoblastic cells.

Weber JM, Forsythe SR, Christianson CA, Frisch BJ, Gigliotti BJ, Jordan CT, Milner LA, Guzman ML, Calvi LM

Bone.. 2006 September 39 (3):485-93. Epub 05/02/2006.

Books

2022 Endocrine Case Management: Meet the Professor (2022)

Chapter: "What's New in the Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer?"

A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology (2021)

Chapter: "Drug-induced Hypothyroidism."

Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands (2020)

Chapter: Fine-Needle Aspiration and Molecular Analysis

Facing Diabetes: A Guide for Patients and their Families (2019)

Chapter: What types of medications and/or other treatments are available to treat diabetes?

Facing Diabetes: A Guide for Patients and their Families (2019)

Chapter: What is insulin, and how is it used to treat diabetes?

Pocket Primary Care (2018)

Chapter: Thyroid Disease

Pocket Primary Care (2018)

Chapter: Thyroid Nodules

Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (2017)

Chapter: Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of Hürthle Cell Thyroid Cancer

Decision Support in Medicine (2016)

Chapter: Hypogonadism and Testosterone Treatment [Internet]

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4.9 stars

Likelihood of recommending this care provider to others

5.0 stars

Explanations the care provider gave you about your problem or condition

5.0 stars

Care provider's efforts to include you in decisions about your care

4.9 stars

Concern the care provider showed for your questions or worries

4.9 stars

Patient Comments

5.0 stars

Dr. Gigliotti is excellent! He tries hard to figure things out, and if he can't, he reaches out to his colleagues. He listens and explains things in a way that I can understand.

Jan 23, 2025

5.0 stars

Communication was great.

Jan 16, 2025

5.0 stars

Dr. G is a really great doctor!

Dec 27, 2024

5.0 stars

One of the best experiences I've had with a doctor in my 77 years. His visit notes show that he really heard what I said.

Dec 25, 2024

5.0 stars

Dr Gigliotti is fantastic! I can always tell that he's reviewed my chart and is ready with ideas to help me feel better. I never feel like it's a struggle to be heard with him.

Dec 15, 2024

5.0 stars

Dr G is a wonderful medical professional

Dec 13, 2024

5.0 stars

Dr. Gigliotti is probably the best doctor I have ever worked with. I would recommend to anyone in need of endocrine care.

Nov 27, 2024

5.0 stars

This specialist was Dr Gigliotti. I feel very fortunate to have a specialist like him provide my care. He is very compassionate, knowledgable and he listens to me.

Nov 17, 2024

5.0 stars

I have recommended Dr. Gigliotti to 4 people.

Nov 12, 2024

5.0 stars

Dr. Gigliotti gives me the impression he studies the tests and reports thoroughly before entering the room. He tells you like it is in a very kind and caring way. I'm so happy to have him take over my case now that I moved [...].

Nov 02, 2024