Omar El Kawkgi, MD
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About Dr. El Kawkgi
Omar El Kawkgi, MD, is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Kentucky and leads the Thyroid Oncology Program at the UK Markey Cancer Center. He earned his medical degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin, completed internal medicine residency at UMass Chan Medical School – Baystate in Springfield, Massachusetts, and completed his endocrinology and metabolism fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was previously assistant professor of medicine and a consultant in endocrinology. His expertise is in the diagnosis and management of thyroid neoplasms, including benign thyroid nodules and differentiated, medullary and anaplastic thyroid cancers. Procedures he performs include thyroid ultrasound, ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy, thyroid cyst aspiration, molecular testing of thyroid nodules and radioactive iodine therapy. He is Associate Program Director of the UK endocrinology fellowship and Associate Editor of Clinical Thyroidology.