The Annual Congress of the Asia Pacific Thyroid Society
9,11 April 2026
Singapore
The annual congress of the Asia Pacific Thyroid Society was recently conducted at Singapore on 9-11 April 2026. The meeting focused on exchange of knowledge and philosophy of thyroid disorders management across the globe. The .n contingent led by President Dr Kaustubh Patel and Secretary Dr Abhishek Vaidya comprised of more than 40 faculty and delegates, . being second largest delegation in the meeting. .n faculty members participated in key prestigious positions in the main programme including invited talks, panel and symposium participations. Senior members such as Patron Dr Madan Kapre, Immediate Past President Dr Jyoti Dabholkar, Immediate past secretary Dr KK Thankappan, Governing council members Dr Subramaniam Iyer were invited faculty. .n delegates also participated actively in the award paper and poster presentations and Dr Rupjyoti Das from B Baruah Cancer Institute won the second prize in poster award for predictors of central compartment nodal metastases in differentiated thyroid cancers.
The .n Society of Thyroid Surgeons symposium was a 2 hour special session in the congress. The academic content, variety of niche areas in thyroid care covered, were widely appreciated by all attendees. The significant progress made by .n doctors in the field of remote access surgery, surgical adjuncts, thyroid cancer genetics and our recently published .n Thyroid Cancer guidelines were prominently recognized.
Following were the contributions of the ISTS members in the scientific programme –
Dr. Divya G M – Speaker – extra-laryngeal Branching of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve & Its Impact on Post Operative Vocal Cord Function
Dr. Krishnakumar Thankappan – Speaker –
(i) Autofluorescence Guided Re Implantation of Parathyroid Gland
(ii) Trans-thyroid Cartilage Electrodes for Neuromonitoring in Thyroid Surgery
Dr. Madan Kapre –
(i) Panelist – Capacity Building and Sustaining Impact in Diverse Settings
(ii) Speaker – Parathyroid Vasculature
(iii) Panelist – Parathyroid surgery: focused vs four-gland exploration vs re operative ablation
Dr. Subramania IYER – Panelist –
(i) Should IONM be standard of care in all thyroidectomies?
(ii) Should parathyroid autofluorescence be routine in thyroid / parathyroid surgery?
Dr. Ashok Mohan Shenoy – Speaker – Microanatomy of Central Neck Dissection – Minimizing Complications
Dr. Anuja Deshmukh – Speaker –
(i) Troubleshooting in IONM
(ii) Genetic Testing and Prophylactic Thyroidectomy in Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Dr. Dushyant Mandlik – Speaker –
(i) Tracheal Resection / Mediastinal Lymph Node Clearance in Thyroid Cancers
(ii) Role of Surgery in Advanced Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma
Dr. Jyoti Dabholkar – Panelist –
(i) Contentious issues in DTC
(ii) Balancing affordability with innovation in thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment
Dr. Gouri Pantvaidya – Speaker – Current Updates in Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Dr. Rajjyoti Das – Speaker – Management of Neck in MTC
Dr. Kaustubh Patel – Speaker – Sternotomy for Thyroid Cancers – When & When Not
Dr. Kapil Sikka – Panelist – Remote access approaches: TOETVA, BABA, retro auricular, trans-axillary – which is best and for whom?
Dr. Alok Thakar – Panelist – continuous vs intermittent IONM – which improves outcome?
Dr. Murad Lala –
(i) Speaker – Primary Hyperparathyroidism – Planning for Surgical Success
(ii) Speaker – Management of Post-operative Hypoparathyroidism – An Algorithmic Approach
(iii) Panelist – Parathyroid surgery: focused vs four-gland exploration vs re operative ablation
Dr. Neeti Kapre – Speaker – DTC Management: Updates from ATA 2025
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The academic content of the ISTS symposium was as follows –
- Dr. Kaustubh Patel – Welcome and Introduction
- Dr. Gouri Pantvaidya – Neoadjuvant Treatment in Thyroid Cancers: When and When Not
- Dr. Harsh Dhar – ISTS Guidelines in Context of ATA 2025
- Dr. Sandeep Peraje Nayak – Remote Access Thyroid Surgeries in .: Current Status and Future
- Dr. Aditya Joshipura – Our Experience of Neuromonitoring in 1500+ Nerves
- Dr. Vikram Kekatpure – Moderator – Point Of View
- Abhishek Vaidya – Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma Surgery
- Karan – Surveillance
- Murtuza Laxmidhar – Ablation
- Vikram Kekatpure – Final Comments
- Challenging Cases in Thyroid Cancer Panel Discussion
- Deepak Sarin – Moderator
- Ashok Das – Panelist
- Rajendra Toprani – Panelist
- Dushyant Mandlik – Panelist
- Kyung Tae – Panelist
- Shivakumar Thiagarajan – Panelist
- Sourav Datta – Panelist
- Sowrabh Kumar Arora – Panelist
- Subramania Iyer – Panelist
- Ritesh Agrawal – Panelist
- Dr. Jyoti Dabholkar – Vote Of Thanks
