Keynote Speakers

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Dr. Miyauchi is President of Kuma Hospital, Center for Excellence in Thyroid Care, Kobe, Japan. He is an endocrine surgeon, especially interested in thyroid and parathyroid diseases. About 1,300 thyroid canceroperations are done every year at Kuma Hospital. He is Chairman of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons.He is also President of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons.

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He is currently the Director, Oncology – Apollo Hospitals, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi. Awarded the Honorary FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Dr.D’Cruz is the first Indian to hold the prestigious post of President Elect (2018-2020) and President (2020-2022) of the Union International for Cancer Control, Geneva, Switzerland which is the largest cancer organisation globally committed to the cause of cancer control. Prior to joining Apollo Hospitals, Dr.D’Cruz was Director of at Tata Memorial Hospital and Chief of Head Neck Services. He has held leadership positions and is on the board of numerous professional organisations, universities, research organisations and cancer institutions across the country and abroad. His landmark contribution on the management was neck nodes in oral cancer was awarded the prestigious plenary at the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 2015. With more than 250 peer reviewed publications and chapters to his name, Dr.D’Cruz is on the Editorial Board of many reputed national and international journals.

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Feng-Yu Chiang, MDis a Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head &. Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan.Now, he is the Director of Asia-Pacific Society of Thyroid Surgery (APTS) and Board member of International NeuroMonitoringStudy Group (INMSG). Dr. Chiang’s clinical expertise and research focus on thyroid and parathyroid surgery with a special emphasis on intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) of recurrent laryngeal nerve.

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Dr. Hang-Seok Chang is Professor, and General Director of Cancer Hospital of Gangnam Severance Hospital,Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

He is the Chairman of Korean Association of Thyroid-Endocrine Surgeons (KATES), the Chairman Elect of the Korean Thyroid Association (KTA), and the Vice President of the Korean Society of Head and Neck Oncology (KSHNO).

He is author of more than 200 articles, including over 100 SCI articles. He wrote 2 Textbook on Endocrine Surgery.(in Korean)

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• Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
• Director, Hanyang University Hospital Cancer Center, Seoul, Korea
• Secretary-General, Asia-Pacific Society of Thyroid Surgery (APTS)
• Vice President, International Guild of Robotic & Endoscopic Head and Neck Surgery
• Former President, Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (2014-2015)
• Former Vice President, Korean Thyroid Association

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Dr. R. Michael Tuttle is Chief of the Endocrinology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, N.Y. He has designed and validated the first real time risk assessment model for thyroid cancer management in which individual risk estimates are modified over time as a function of response to initial therapy. His research continues to center on important management aspects of thyroid cancer including efforts to better define (1) the risk of recurrence and death from thyroid cancer for individual patients, (2) the role of active surveillance in properly selected patients with low-risk papillary thyroid cancer, and (3) the proper application of minimalistic management options to better tailor the intensity of therapy and follow-up to the risks of undesirable outcomes. His clinical practice is entirely devoted to the evaluation and management of patients with thyroid cancer

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Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine with a specialty in Head & Neck Surgery. He is the Director of Robotic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and a Co-Leader of the Head & Neck Cancer Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

Dr. Duvvuri has authored and co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Head & Neck Society, American Academy of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, American Association for Cancer Research, and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, as an NCI Investigator.

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“From Felix to the Helix, and from the Cradle to the Grave – Semon’s contribution to Thyroid Surgery.”

Biography: John Watkinson qualified from the Royal Free Hospital, London in 1979, and trained in ENT, Head and Neck and Plastic Surgery at Guys Hospital and The Royal Marsden. He has Fellowships in General Surgery and Otolaryngology, an MSc in Nuclear Medicine and MS in Surgery. He is an elected member (by thesis) of both the American Triological Society and the American Head & Neck Society. He held visiting professorships at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and then Duke in Carolina, USA before completing his training with a further Plastics Fellowship at Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow.

He was a Consultant Head and Neck and Thyroid surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Birmingham NHS Trust (1992 – 2017), and Consultant Thyroid Surgeon at The Royal Marsden Hospital, London (2016 – 2017). He is currently Honorary Paediatric Head and Neck and Thyroid Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), and lectures in Anatomy at UCL, London.

He had a large thyroid clinical and research practice, supervised over 30 Higher Degrees and in 1998 was Hospital Surgical Doctor of the Year. He has published on all aspects of Head & Neck and Thyroid surgery; organised the Birmingham Head and Neck course (1997-2006) and is Chief Editor of several major textbooks including Scott Brown, Stell and Maran,Tips & Tricks in Endocrine Surgery, and has edited the latest Neck Section in Gray’s Anatomy. He was President of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists (2009-2011), President of British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (2011-2013) and is the first ENT surgeon to hold that honour.

He was President of the Royal Society of Medicine Laryngology Section (2014-2015). He has been involved in a number of National guidelines including NICE, BTA, BAHNO, DAHNO and ENT-UK, and was awarded a Hunterian Professorship in 2009 from The Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was appointed by [Dame] Tessa Jowell to serve on ARSAC (Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee) for the Government (1994 – 2002). From 2003 – 2010 he was an examiner for the Part III FRCS-ORL Exam. In 2015, he was awarded the Jobson Horne Prize by the BMA for his lifetime contribution to medicine in ENT, and in 2019 was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the President and Counsel of BAHNO. John was also a member of the NCIN and NICR national committees.

John has given a number of eponymous lectures including the Stell memorial lecture (2005), John Palmer (Toronto 2007), the Leegard lecture (2009), Hunterian (2009), the Wilde Discourse (2011), RSM Presidential Address (2014) and the Thomas Tatum Lecture (2016). Recently, he co-wrote the ‘History of the Semon Lecture’ (www.semonlectures.org). In 1994, together with Adrian Drake-Lee, the Warwickshire Cricketers, Dr Hilary Jones, the late Roy Castle and Peter Scudamore he co-founded The Get A-Head Charitable Trust (www.getahead.org.uk).

John is married with two children, enjoys travelling, watching all sports, fishing and fine wine!

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• Lab Director of the Centre for Oncopathology, Mumbai
• Head of Histopathology, SL Raheja Hospital, Mumbai.
• Member of the National Accreditation Board for Testing & Calibrating laboratories, India.
• Chairperson of the Advisory Committee for Medical Labs, NABL.
• Surgical Cancer Pathologist with over forty years of working in cancer pathology.
• Special interest in Head & Neck pathology, lymphoid neoplasms, and the mechanisms of metastasis
• Passionate teacher who believes in opening minds to possibilities beyond the mundane.