Faculty, UW–Madison
Chief, Division of Endocrine Surgery

Rebecca Sippel, MD, FACS

  • General Surgery
Rebecca S. Sippel, MD, FACS

About

Dr. Sippel is certified by the American Board of Surgery. She is an active member of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and serves as the Endocrine Surgery Fellowship Director. She specializes in endocrine surgery and surgical treatment of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands. Dr. Sippel is an expert in parathyroid surgery and offers the latest in minimally invasive approaches for the treatment of hyperparathyroidism (minimally invasive parathyroidectomy, minimally invasive radioguided parathyroidectomy).

Dr. Sippel is also dedicated to the treatment of both benign and malignant diseases of the thyroid such as thyroid cancer, Graves disease, hyperthyroidism, thyroid nodules and goiter and works closely with our endocrinologists in our multidisciplinary thyroid clinic to offer patients surgical treatment options for their thyroid conditions. She has a special interest in the treatment of primary and recurrent thyroid cancer and also has expertise in the minimally invasive treatment of adrenal disease (laparoscopic adrenalectomy) treating both functional (pheochromocytoma, aldosteronoma, Cushing’s syndrome) and non-functional lesions of the adrenal gland (adrenal adenoma, adrenal carcinoma).

Languages spoken
  • English
University affiliation

Education & credentials

Board certifications
  • Surgery
Medical School
  • Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Fellowships

Endocrine Surgery, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2007

Residencies
  • University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI

Specialties

Additional conditions and treatments
  • Adrenal Adenoma
  • Adrenocortical Cancer
  • Cervical Lymph Node Dissection
  • Conn's Syndrome
  • Cushing's Syndrome
  • Endocrine cancer
  • Fine Needle Aspiration
  • Hyperparathyroidism
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Laparoscopic adrenalectomy
  • Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy
  • Multiple endocrine neoplasia
  • Pheochromocytoma
  • Substernal Goiter
  • Thymectomy
  • Thyroid Nodule
  • Thyroid cancer
  • Thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery
  • Thyroidectomy