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 held several leadership roles within national endocrine organizations, including previous member of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) Board of Directors, previous Associate Editor of Thyroid, past President of Women in Thyroidology, and past Clinical Science Chair for the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting. She is involved in writing the NCCN thyroid cancer guidelines and the upcoming ATA thyroid cancer guidelines. Dr. Haymart also has a history of NIH-funded research focused on optimizing thyroid care delivery. She received the American Thyroid Association’s Van Meter Award for outstanding contributions to research on the thyroid gland (2017), 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, 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 believes that through high-quality research, we can improve the care of patients with thyroid conditions.