RM Tuttle, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr. Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Dr Tuttle, originally from Kentucky, attended medical school at the University of Louisville in Louisville Kentucky. He went on to do his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta Georgia. This was followed by a two year fellowship in Endocrinology and one year of post-doctoral training in molecular biology at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma Washington.
After 3 years as a staff endocrinologist at Madigan Army Medical Center, he transferred to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. At Walter Reed he served as Assistant Chief of the Thyroid clinic, and Assistant Chief of the Department of Clinical Investigations. Upon leaving the Army, Dr Tuttle joined the Endocrine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in August of 1999.
Dr Tuttle’s primary research interests have been in thyroid cancer and specifically radiation induced thyroid cancer. His research efforts have taken him from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands to the Hanford Nuclear power-plant in Washington State to regions of Russia exposed to fallout from the Chernobyl accident. His clinical research has focused on novel approaches to early detection and treatment of advanced thyroid cancer. Dr Tuttle’s clinical and research interests continue to center on the management of advanced thyroid cancer.