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Heather Wachtel, MD, FACS

Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery
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5.0 with 250 ratings

Sees patients age 15 and up

Heather Wachtel, MD, FACS

Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery
5.0 with 250 ratings

Sees patients age 15 and up

  • Co-Director, Endocrine Disease Team
  • Fellow, American College of Surgeons
  • Associate Program Director, Penn General Surgery Residency Program
  • Physician Liaison, Abramson Cancer Center
  • Associate Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Dr. Wachtel is a Penn Medicine physician.
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Meet Dr. Wachtel

Dr. Wachtel’s clinical practice specializes in thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery. Dr. Wachtel is a board-certified surgeon and the co-Director of the Endocrine Disease Team of the Penn Medicine Abramson Cancer Center. She is one of the only providers in the region offering retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy, which is a minimally invasive adrenalectomy from a retroperitoneal approach. Dr. Wachtel also performs minimally invasive transabdominal adrenalectomy using robotic and laparoscopic techniques.

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