{"id":6058,"date":"2016-09-07T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6058"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:59:58","slug":"f-thurston-drake-md-mph","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/people\/f-thurston-drake-md-mph\/","title":{"rendered":"F. Thurston Drake, MD, MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Vice Chair for Clinical Operations, Inpatient Services<br \/>\nChief, Endocrine Surgery<br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Surgery<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Certification<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Clinical Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General surgery<\/li>\n<li>Endocrine surgery (including surgery for diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improving outcomes for common surgical diseases.<\/li>\n<li>Innovations in surgical education and improving access to surgical care in the developing world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Drake%20FT%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=24990687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>See a <\/span>listing of publications <\/a><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Drake%20FT%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=24990687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on PubMed<\/a>, a service of the National Library of Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5016,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6058\/revisions\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}