Paul M. Copeland, MD, Massachusetts General Hosp Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
Paul M. Copeland, M.D. is Chief of Endocrinology at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Massachusetts, Clinical Affiliate at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Endocrine Consultant for the MGH Weight Center, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received a BA and MD from Yale University, did a Residency in Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and completed a Fellowship in Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital. During the second month of his fellowship he saw three patients with incidentally discovered adrenal masses. The existing recommendation at that time, coming from the Urology literature, was for universal resection. All three patients had benign pathology and all three had minor surgical complications. This outcome led him to develop an evaluation of these masses, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which permitted a more selective approach that continues to be refined.