18th Annual Thyroid Surgical Workshop” held at Rural Hospital Chikhaldara under the joint aegis of Indian Society of Thyroid Surgeons, Thyroid Society Nagpur and Rotary Club of Nagpur South. It was attended by 40 delegates from all parts of the country registered for the workshop. They were given lecture demonstrations on Imaging and FNAC for Thyroid by Dr. Khandelwal and Dr. R. Ravi in Nagpur and then all delegates and faculty were taken to Chikhaldara. Faculty were Prof. Neil Tolley, Prof. Endocrine Surgery at Imperial College, London. Dr. Madan Kapre, Dr. Devendra Mahore, Dr. R. B. Deshmukh, Dr. Abhishek Vaidya . Dr. Deepak Abraham from CMC Vellore. Dr. Murad Lala from Hinduja Hospital , Mumbai. Dr. Jyoti Dabholkar and Dr. Rahul Modi from Mumbai. Anesthesia faculty were Dr. Vidula Kapre, Dr. Pallavi Godghate, Dr. Swapna Bhure, Dr. Kalyani Basekar and Dr. Rucha Vaidya.

In all 9 complex thyroid surgeries were performed.3 surgeries were performed completely under Cervical Epidural Anaesthesia. Intra operative Nerve Monitoring was demonstrated in 2 surgeries. There were lectures on various aspects of Thyroid Surgery.