Megan Rist Haymart, MD

Megan R. Haymart, MD is Professor of Internal Medicine with an appointment in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes at the University of Michigan. She holds the Nancy Wigginton Endocrinology Research Professorship of Thyroid Cancer and is Director of Thyroid Cancer Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Haymart received her medical degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She then completed a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the University of Wisconsin. She has been faculty at the University of Michigan since 2009.

Dr. Haymart has a history of NIH-funded research focused on optimizing thyroid care delivery. She is a health services researcher who primarily studies thyroid cancer care across the disease continuum: from the diagnosis of a thyroid nodule to cancer survivorship. In recognition of her research, she received the American Thyroid Association’s Van Meter Award for outstanding contributions to research on the thyroid gland (2017), the University of Michigan’s Jerome Conn Award for Research Excellence (2017), membership to American Society for Clinical Investigation (2018), the AACE Hossein Gharib Education Lectureship Award for exemplary contributions to an individual profession or area of expertise (2021), and the inaugural AACE Endocrine Care Innovation Award in recognition of her team’s outstanding body of work focused on clinical outcomes or health care delivery (2025).

Dr. Haymart is actively involved in improving research infrastructure at the University of Michigan. This includes her roles as Assistant Director of Data Solutions for AI & Digital Health Innovation, faculty support for MICHR, and co-Director of Patient’s First. She also devotes time to mentoring junior faculty and trainees resulting in her receipt of the MICHR Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor Award (2021) and the Women in Thyroidology and American Thyroid Association Woman of the Year Award (2021) for promoting the advancement of women, both within the organization and field.

Thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer

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Cancer care delivery research, specifically the role of patients, providers, and health systems in thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment.