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




Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion 1: Thyroid Surgery- Who should do it? and How to train them Chairperson: George Thomas
Kuddush Ahmed
Panelists: Vishal Rao / Ravi Deo / Kannan S / C Gopalakrishnan Nair / Madan Kapre / Subramania Iyer / Luiz Kowalski Moderator: Pankaj Chaturvedi
Panel Discussion 2: Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Chairperson: Priyank Rathod
Soon Young Kwon
Panelists: Vijay Pillai / C S Mani / Vishal Choksi / Anoop R / Smitha NV / Amit Joshi / Satyendra Singh Moderator: Deepak Balasubramanian
Panel Discussion 3: Management of Low-Risk Thyroid cancer Chairperson: Rajeev Kumar
Arun Peter Mathew
Panelists: Akira Miyauchi / Anurag Srivastava / Siddharth Shah / Aseem Mishra / Archi Agrawal / Ajit Nambiar Moderator: Vikram Kekatpure 
Panel Discussion 4: ISTS Panel – Advanced Stage Thyroid Cancer Treatment Strategies Chairperson: Unnikrishnan K
Nageswara N Rao
Panelists: Cesare Piazza / Umanath Nayak / Sriprakash Duraisamy / Ashish Varghese / Pushpaja KU / Arun Philip / K Kumareshan Moderator: Arun P
Panel Discussion 5: Total Thyroidectomy and Completion Thyroidectomy: why, when and how to minimize complications? Chairperson: Ridhi Sood
Pirabu Sakthivel
Panelists: Shamit Chopra / Shilpi Sharma / Jerry Paul / Surij Salih / Amit Janu / Anish Jacob Cherian Moderator: Devendra Chaukar 
Panel Discussion 6: Dilemmas in the treatment of Medullary Cancer Thyroid Chairperson: Aditya Joshipura
Poonam Joshi
Panelists: Misha JC Babu / Murtuza Laxmidhar / Rahul Modi / Rajeev Parameswaran / Vijay Haribhakti / Anoop R / Rijju G Moderator: Sudhir Nair
Panel Discussion 7: AHNS Endocrine Surgery Section and ATPS conjoint panel - Thyroid Cancer Tumor Board: Novel Treatment Strategies and Therapeutics for Thyroid Cancer Moderators: Kyung Tae (APTS)
David Shonka (AHNS)
Lecture: Parathyroid Autofluorescence and Fluorescent Angiography: Best Practices Brendan Stack (Online)
Panelists: Yasuhiro Ito / Umamaheswar Duvvuri / Che-Wei Wu / Poonam Joshi / Ilya V. Sleptsov / Anil D’ Cruz / Vijay Patil  
Panel Discussion 8: Systemic Therapy in Thyroid cancers Chairperson: Purushottam Chavan
Hok Nam Li
Panelists: Narayana Subramaniam / Pavithran K / Adharsh Anand / Sabaretnam M / Richa Vaish / Amit Joshi Moderator: Arvind Krishnamurthy