Session: Diagnostics

• Radiological Workup for Thyroid Pathologies - what a Surgeon/Clinician needs to Know
• Bethesda and Beyond – Improving results of FNAC in thyroid nodule
• Improving Dialogue between the Pathologist and Thyroid Surgeon (CPC)
• Debate: Has the era of Molecular Diagnostics in Indeterminate thyroid nodule finally arrived in the Indian Context?

Session: Low risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

• Approaches to incidentaloma
• Role of radiofrequency/ MW ablation in thyroid nodules
• Philosophy of Surgery in Low-Risk DTC
• Debate: When to offer remnant Radioiodine ablation in the Low-Risk Group
• Panel: Management of the Indeterminate Nodule and Low risk DTC (case-based approach)

ISTS Oration
Speaker: Joseph Scharpf
Topic: Thyroid Mutations and Implications for clinical practice

Session : Medullary Cancer Thyroid

• MTC-The role of Genetic Profiling in the Management of MTC
• Basic Surgical Principles in Management of MTC
• Role of systemic/targeted therapy in Recurrent/Metastatic MTC
• Theranostics in MTC
• PANEL: Case based discussion on MTC covering Work up, Molecular analysis, Surgical principles, Adjuvant and R/M MTC

ISTS Keynote Address:
Speaker: Dr. Julie Sosa
Title: Assembling evidence to change practice in the Management of Thyroid Cancer

Session : Risk Stratification, RAI, Follow up and Radioiodine Refractory Disease

• Adjuvant RAI & Response Assessment, Dynamic Risk Stratification
• PANEL: Recurrence, Redo surgery, Metastatic DTC, RRDTC
• ZOOM Talk by Dr. Maria Cabanillas - Advances in Molecular Therapeutics of Anaplastic Thyroid Ca and PDTC
• How to formulate Guidelines – What’s new and what’s missing? (Expert Panel)

Instructional course – IONM
Variations of RLN

Session: Complications

• Voice management in a patient with RLN palsy
• Management of Post Thyroidectomy Hypocalcemia and Presurgical Optimization
• Complications Panel

Session: Robotics

• Retro-auricular Robotic Thyroidectomy
• BABA approach for Thyroidectomy
• BABA approach - neck in Robotic Thyroidectomy/Evolution of the Transaxillary Robotic approach
• Indications and extent of neck dissection in MTC
• Central Compartment Clearance- when and how?
• Panel Discussion: Management of the Neck in Differentiated Thyroid Malignancies

Session: Oral Paper

Session: Pediatric and Locally Advanced Thyroid

• Pediatric Thyroid cancer
• Tips and Tricks regarding Preservation of the RLN & Parathyroid in Thyroid Surgeries
• Locally advanced Thyroid – when the going gets tough
• Panel Discussion: Locally advanced Thyroid - Surgical principles, Mx of the central and lateral Neck, Mx of RLN, Airway and Esophagus, and NGS

Session: Poorly Differentiated and Anaplastic Cancer thyroid

• Pathological Spectrum - PDTC, Anaplastic ca: diagnostic dilemmas a pathologist faces
• PDTC/ Anaplastic Cancer – Role of Surgery
• Panel Discussion: PDTC and Anaplastic Cancer thyroid

Keynote Address:
Speaker: Dr Joseph Schrapf
Title: Recurrent and redo Thyroid Surgeries

Session: Disorders of the Parathyroid

• Work up and Management of Sporadic PHPT
• Challenges in Parathyroid - Familial PHPT
• Panel Discussion: Parathyroid - Case based discussions –
  • Work up
  • When to operate
  • 4 Gland exploration
  • Persistently raised PTH
  • Parathyroid Cancer
  • Developing a parathyroid practice

Session: STUMP THE EXPERTS

Session: RFA/Microwave Instructional Courses

Session: Invited Videos

• Neck Dissection
• Laryngeal Innervation
• Total Thyroidectomy
• Central Compartment Dissection
• Tracheotracheal Resection Anastomosis
• Intraoperative Identification of Parathyroid

• Transoral
• Postauricular axillary

Session: Induction Chemotherapy and Adjuvant Radiation in Thyroid Cancer

• Experience with Lenvatinib in LATC
• Neoadjuvant Therapy in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
• Role of Adjuvant Radiation in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Session: Competition Videos