University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA ๐บ๐ธ 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.
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA ๐บ๐ธ Dr. Grogan is an endocrine surgeon at the Michael Debakey Department of Surgery, where he performs operations for thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, and endocrine pancreas disease. In addition to being a practicing surgeon he is also the Director of the Endocrine Surgery Research Program that encompasses translational and health services research. He is the founder and Co-PI of the North American Thyroid Cancer Survivorship Study, a longitudinal cohort study that investigates the short and long-term psychosocial effects of a thyroid cancer diagnosis. He is the one who is currently doing TOETVA in the USA.
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA ๐บ๐ธย 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 bariatric 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.
Rabin Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ Prof. Bachar is a Head and Neck surgeon, who was one of the pioneer in Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach (TOETVA) in Israel. He is very active in doing this technique in Israel.
Korea University Hospital, South Korea ๐ฐ๐ท. 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)
Yonsei University, South Korea๐ฐ๐ท Dr. Yoon Woo Koh is a pioneer in Robotic Retroauricular Neck Dissection for Thyroid and Head & Neck cancer. He has substantial contribution in developing โMinimally invasive Head & Neck surgery and Thyroid surgery with Retroauricular approachโ 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.
Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan ๐น๐ผ 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.
Seoul National University, South Korea ๐ฐ๐ท 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.
Ege University, Turkey ๐น๐ท Prof. Makay is an expert in nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery as well as TOETVA, and has been a guest faculty member in South Korea, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Bulgaria. He has received 17 awards and honors for his scientific studies. He has authored a 300-page book on nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery.
Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong ๐ญ๐ฐ Dr Li is one of the famous Head and Neck surgeon, currently 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
Rajavithi Hospital, Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand ๐น๐ญ Professor of Surgery; Department of Surgery, Rajavithi Hospital. He is also the president of Thai Endocrine Surgeons Society (TESS). He was one of the pionner in Endoscopic Thyroidectomy in Thailand and South East Asia. His technique is called โ4 ports โ Transaxillary Endoscopic Thyroidectomyโ which is the largest series in Asia-Pacific Region.
Vietnam National Cancer Hospital, Vietnam ๐ป๐ณ 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.ย He is currently doing over 500 cases of TOETVA
Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand ๐น๐ญ 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.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand ๐น๐ญ He is one of the most famous Otolaryngologist at Chulalongkorn university hospital. He is now currently perfoming TOETVA with a good number.
Siriraj Hospital, Thailand ๐น๐ญ 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.
Chiang Mai University, Thailand ๐น๐ญ 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.
Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand ๐น๐ญ 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.
Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand ๐น๐ญ One of the active member in Police General Hospital, she works very close with Dr Anuwong, Her surgical skll especially endoscopic and robotic thyroidectomy skills are excellent. She did a lot of TOETVA cases and help Dr Angkoon in many aspects.
Veteran General Hospital, Thailand ๐น๐ญ 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.
Charoenkrung Pracharak Hospital, Thailand ๐น๐ญ He was also Dr Angkoon fellows, with a very talent and expert skills in TOETVA.