Jonathon Russell, MD, FACS is the Director of Endoscopic and Robotic Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery at Johns Hopkins, and the chair of the Technology Committee for the American Head and Neck Society. In these roles, he encourages innovation in thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He leads the largest series of scarless Transoral thyroidectomy in North America, and was also part of the first team of Head and Neck surgeons to offer Radiofrequency Ablation of thyroid nodules in North America. He has led training on innovative techniques for the American College of Surgeons and other groups, and has edited the first book dedicated to scarless transoral thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University and trained in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.