Controversies in Endocrine Surgery

Dr Rajeev Parameswaran is a Senior Consultant & previous Head of Division of Endocrine Surgery at National University Hospitals (NUH, Alexandra Hospital and Ng Teng Fong Hospital), Singapore. He is also an Assistant Professor on the research track under the department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He pursued his surgical training In India and UK, worked as a Consultant in UK before moving to Singapore. He is also a core member of the healthy longevity translational program and council member of Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons. Dr Rajeev established the endocrine surgical fellowship at NUH and leads the endocrine surgical fellowship. He has several peer-reviewed publications, textbook chapters, 3 textbooks in endocrine surgery and delivered many national and international lectures. He has conducted many postgraduate courses in endocrine surgery in Singapore and overseas, and lead the Masterclass Programs in South and South East Asia. He is also the associate editor of World Journal of Endocrine Surgery. His clinical interests include reoperative surgery, paediatric endocrine surgery and surgery for cancers of the endocrine gland. His main research interests are aberrant glycosylation in endocrine cancers.

Dr Amit Agarwal is currently the Director of Endocrine and Breast Surgery Department, Medanta Hospital, Lucknow, India. He has been the former head and professor, department of endocrine and breast surgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow. He has trained several generations of Endocrine and Breast Surgeons and he is widely regarded as Teachers of Teachers. He has also been the immediate past president of the Indian Thyroid Society, Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons and the International Society of Oncoplastic Endocrine Surgeons. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles in national and international journals, delivered more than 500 lectures, written numerous book chapters and edited many books. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the World Journal of Endocrine Surgery. He performed the first robotic surgery in Uttar Pradesh, India. His research interests include the study of molecular biology of thyroid and parathyroid tumors.

Dr Roma Pradhan is currently the associate director of the endocrine and breast surgery department at Medanta Hospital, Lucknow, India. She is a dedicated endocrine and breast surgeon and has established and headed the department of endocrine surgery at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia, Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. She has been a council member of the Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons and is presently in the Executive Committee of Indian Thyroid Society. She has published several peer-reviewed articles, delivered lectures, and written numerous book chapters in national and international journals. She has also edited the IAES book of Endocrine Surgery. She was the first to use continuous neuromonitoring in north India in thyroid surgery. Her clinical interests include robotic thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery, oncoplastic and whole breast reconstructive surgery.