Speakers

Quan-Yang Duh, MD, FACS

University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Dr. Quan-Yang Duh specializes in surgery to treat tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands, as well as other endocrine and gastrointestinal malignancies. He has a special interest in laparoscopic surgery and minimally invasive endocrine surgery. Duh earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also completed his residency training in surgery and a fellowship in endocrine surgery. He is the past president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and the San Francisco Surgical Society, as well as president of the American College of Surgeons (Northern California chapter). Duh has been a professor at UCSF since 1988 and is listed in the publication Best Doctors in America. He is board certified in surgery.

Vidal Fortuny Jordi, MD,

Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland 🇨🇭 Originally from Barcelona, Dr Jordi Vidal Fortuny completed his university education in 2001, and left Spain in 2004 to make his way to Switzerland and train as a surgeon. Dr Vidal Fortuny has two specific areas of specialization: General Surgery and Endocrine Surgery. He was one of the pioneer in Transoral Endosocpic Thyroidectomy in Switzerland and European Countries. His interest now is using the ICG with thyroid and parathyroid surgeries. He conducted and publish many researches about ICG.

Gustavo Fernandez-Ranvier, MD, FACS

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA Dr. Gustavo Fernandez-Ranvier is currently an Assistant Professor in Surgery at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. His areas of specialty and research interests include thyroid and parathyroid disease, adrenal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, and minimally invasive and bariaric surgery. He went to Thailand to learn TOETVA from Dr. Anuwong, and how he is doing a lot of TOETVA cases and spreading this technique in the USA.

Ram Moorthy, MD

Wexham Park Hospital, Royal Berkshire Hospital, United Kingdom.🇬🇧 Ram Moorthy is a highly qualified consultant otolaryngologist and ENT head and neck surgeon with private clinics at The London ENT and Balance Centre, The Bridge Clinic in Maidenhead, Spire Thames Valley Hospital, Wexham and The Princess Margaret Hospital in Windsor. He offers a full general adult and paediatric ENT service with specialist training in head and neck surgery, including thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He is the only surgeon to locally offer a coblator intracapsular tonsillectomy and transnasal oesophagoscopy. Dr Moorthy is a high volume thyroid and parathyroid surgery utilizing modern techniques to deliver the best possible results to patients. He led the team that undertook the first “scar-less” thyroid and parathyroid procedures in the UK – Transoral Endoscopic Thyroid/Parathyroid Endoscopic Vestibular Approach.

Hoon Yub Kim, MD, PhD, FACS

Korea University Hospital, South Korea . Associate Professor of Surgery; Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery. Dr. Hoon Yub Kim is specialized in Endoscopic & Robotic Thyroid Surgery. He is currently doing over 200 cases of the transoral robotic thyroidectomy pre-mandibular technique in real human being. He is also one of the most famous surgeons regarding Intra operative neural monitoring (IONM)

Yoon Woo Koh, MD

Yonsei University, South Korea Dr. Yoon Woo Koh is a pioneer in Robotic Retroauricular Neck Dissection for Thyroid and Head & Neck cancer. He has substantial contribution in developing “Minimally invasive Head & Neck surgery and Thyroid surgery with Retroauricular approach” in particular. He has written over 100 original articles, book chapters regarding endoscopic and robotic Thyroid and Head & Neck surgery. He has the largest experience in the world with Robotic Retroauricular Neck Dissection for Thyroid and Head & Neck cancer. He was also the first surgeon in the world who performed Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy using Davinci SP.

Yu Hsien Chen, MD

Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan Dr. Chen is an endocrine surgeon. He did an international endocrine fellowship with Dr Angkoon and Dr Kim. Now, he specialized in transoral thyroidectomy, both endoscopic and robotic.

Young Jun Chai, MD, MS

Seoul National University, South Korea Dr. Young Jun Chai is currently working at Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea. He is an endocrine surgeon, experienced in Robotic Thyroidectomy BABA approach. He can perform the Endoscopic BABA approach and TOETVA. He is one of the experienced surgeon currently doing TOETVA in thyroid cancer and neck dissection.

Gregoire Deroide,MD

Institut Hospitalier Franco-British in Levallois, France 🇫🇷 Dr. Deroide is a visceral, digestive and endocrine surgeon. He has a sprecial interest in surgery to treat thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands. Dr Deroide also one of the leading in Minimally Invasive Thyroidectomy in France. He is also the pioneer in TOETVA and already did about 300 cases of Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy and Parathyroidectomy in France. This specialty treats also pathologies of the abdomino-pelvic organs, such as cancers of the colon and rectum, pathologies of the gallbladder and stomach, pathologies of the abdominal wall such as inguinal hernia and proctology . He is member of The French Academy of Surgery.

Li Hok Nam, MD

Hong Kong Dr Li is one of the famous Head and Neck surgeon, previously working at Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong. He is very experienced surgeon in head and neck region especially thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He is performing most cases of TOETVA in Hong Kong

Nguyen Xuan Hau,MD

Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam🇻🇳 Dr. Hau is one of the leading Endocrine Surgeon in Vietnam. He is also very specialize in Endoscopic Thyroidectomy. He published a lot of studies and researches in this fields. Also, he did more than 2000 cases of Transroal Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach (TOETVA) in Vietnam.

Kyung Tae, MD

Hanyang University, South Korea Dr. Kyung Tae is a professor in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. He is also the founder and Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Society of Thyroid Surgery (APTS) and the Director of Hanyang University Hospital Cancer Center. He served as the President of the Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in 2014-2015 and vice president of the Korean Thyroid Association in 2016-2017. Dr. Tae also served as General-Secretary of the Korean Society of Thyroid, Head and Neck Surgery, and the Korean Society of Head and Neck Oncology.
He is very expereice in robotic thyroidectomy especially transroal robotic thyroidectomy.

Woojin Cho,MD

Withsim Clinic, Seongnam, Korea Dr. Cho is an ENT surgeon who interested and specialize in thyroid thermal ablation. His reputation in doing in this field is well-known. He expertise in doing RFA for thyroid nodules.

Tai Kai Chun Dora, MD

Queen Elizabeth Hospital , Hong Kong Dr Dora is an endocrine surgeon working in Hong Kong. She has a lot of experience in head and neck area. She has studied and practice in doing TOETVA from Dr Angkoon and has a nice collaboration together.

Siddharth Shah,MD

Zydus Cancer Centre, India 🇮🇳 Dr Siddharth Shah is a consultant, Head & Neck, and Skull Base Onco Surgeon at Zydus Cancer Center, Ahmedabad. He has treated more than 4500 Head & Neck Cancer Patients. Dr Shah is committed to provide comprehensive, compassionate, evidence-based, and rationalized cancer care. He’s pioneer in starting scarless (transoral) thyroid surgery in the western India. With over 15 years of experience, Dr Siddharth is one of the most knowledgeable, expert, and yet humble head and neck cancer surgeon in India.

Mahbub Alam, MD

Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh 🇧🇩 Dr. MD. Mahbub Alam is an ENT Specialist in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is now very famous in his country, and did the first transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA) in Bangladesh. He contribute to this surgery and proctor the ENT surgeons over his country. Now this operation is very popular because of him.

Suchart Chantawibul, MD, FRCST

Rajavithi Hospital, Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand Professor of Surgery; Department of Surgery, Rajavithi Hospital. He is also the president of Thai Endocrine Surgeons Society (TESS). He was one of the pioneer in Endoscopic Thyroidectomy in Thailand and South East Asia. His technique is called ‘4 ports – Transaxillary Endoscopic Thyroidectomy’ which is the largest series in Asia-Pacific Region.

Ngo Quoc Duy, MD

Vietnam National Cancer Hospital, Vietnam Dr. Duy is a Head and Neck surgeon currently working at the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Vietnam National Cancer Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam. He is one of the pioneers in both TOETVA and Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy in Vietnam. He is currently doing about 1000 cases of TOETVA.

Angkoon Anuwong, MD, FACS, FRCST

Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand He is laparoscopic and endocrine surgery, one of the pioneer in transoral thyroidectomy. He has the largest series in the world of transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach, which has been recently published in 2015. He is also interesting in transoral parathyroidectomy and endoscopic neck surgery.

Varut Supanakorn, MD

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand He is one of the most famous Otolaryngologist at Chulalongkorn university hospital. He is now currently performing TOETVA with a good number.

Prachya Maneeprasopchoke, MD

Siriraj Hospital, Thailand Dr Maneeprasopchoke is an ENT surgeon, who interested in endoscopic thyroidectomy. He learned and collaborate with Dr Angkoon. His additional interest is also Intraoperative Nerve Monitoring (IONM). He studies and conducts some research regarding TOETVA and IONM.

Donyarat Raunmakeaw, MD

Chiang Mai University, Thailand Dr Raunmakeaw is one of a very active in endoscopic thyroidectomy field in the Norhern part of Thailand, especially TOETVA, she is currently doing most cases in the northern part of Thailand.

Thanyawat, Sasanakietkul, MD

Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand Dr. Thanyawat is an endocrine surgeon. He did an endocrine fellowship at Yale University, USA. He is one of the colleague of Dr. Anuwong. He specialized in thyroid, parathyroid and breast disease. He did around 100+ cases of TOETVA especially in thyroid cancer as well as parathyroid.

Tanyanan Jarmikorn, MD

Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand One of the active member in Police General Hospital, she works very close with Dr Anuwong, Her surgical skill especially endoscopic and robotic thyroidectomy skills are excellent. She did a lot of TOETVA cases and help Dr Angkoon in many aspects.

Thanadeth Vongjarukorn, MD

Veteran General Hospital, Thailand He was Dr Angkoon’s fellow. After graduated, he went back to his hospital and started TOETVA surgery, currently doing with a good numbers. He is very famous in the field.

Athiwut Borvornwattanavanich, MD

Charoenkrung Pracharak Hospital, Thailand He was also Dr Angkoon fellows, with a very talent and expert skills in TOETVA.