Past APTS Congress


4th Congress of Asia-Pacific Society of Thyroid Surgery (APTS 2023)
Date: March 23 – 26, 2023
Venue: Le Meridien Kochi, Kochi, India
Theme: Thyroid: Controversies of Consensus
Organizing Chairman: Subramania Iyer, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, India
Organizing Secretary: KK Thankkappan, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, India
Scientific Chairman: Pankaj Chaturvedi, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India




Keynote Lectures

Keynote Lecture 1 Chairperson: Akshat Malik
Bipin T Varghese
Genomic Hallmarks of Thyroid Neoplasia Anita Borges 
Keynote Lecture 2  Chairperson: Lenin Chathuruthy
Pen-Yuan Chu
IONM in thyroidectomy- Recent advances and what the users have to know Feng-Yu Chiang                 
Keynote lecture 3  Chairperson: Arun Kumar PT
Rajeev Sharan
The management of the central neck in Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Dan Fliss
Keynote lecture 4  Chairperson: Kuldeep Thakur
Rajjyoti Das   
Molecular features of advanced Thyroid Cancer Uma Maheswar Duvvuri
Keynote Lecture 5 Chairperson: Krishnappa R
Ravi Meher
Risk stratification in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: from pre-diagnosis to final follow up R Michael Tuttle (online)
Keynote Lecture 6 Chairperson: Madan Kapre
Bini Faizal
Transoral Thyroidectomy: Is it a real game changer? Kyung Tae
Keynote Lecture 7 Chairperson: Praveen Gopinath Kaberi Kakati
Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. Who are good for active surveillance? What were the outcomes? Akira Miyauchi
Keynote lecture 8 Chairperson: Vineet Viswam
Mitali Dandekar
Attributes of a Modern Thyroid Surgeon Amit Agarwal
Keynote Lecture 9 Chairperson: Muhammed Naushad
Richa Vaish
Management of neck recurrences of well differentiated thyroid carcinomas Luiz Kowalski
Keynote lecture 10 Chairperson: P Shanmugha Sundaram
Yasuhiro Ito
Management of Radio Refractory Thyroid Cancers  C S Bal
Keynote Lecture 11 Chairperson: Kwan Hyun Kim
Daxesh Patel
Machine learning with medical informatics: A method to identify patients with hyperparathyroidism WITHOUT calcium & PTH values Brendan C. Stack (online)
Keynote lecture 12 Chairperson: Rahul Modi
Chang Myeon Song
30 years of experience in thyroid surgery John C Watkinson (Online)