THYROID CANCER

Emad Kandil, MD

Professor & Elias Hanna Foundation Chair in Surgery
Chief, Division of General, Endocrine and Oncological Surgery

Areas of Specialty

  • Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) of thyroid Nodule
  • Scarless Robotic Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery with No Neck Scars (Transaxilary, Facelift, Transoral Approaches)
  • Intraoperative Nerve Monitoring Technology
  • Radio-Guided Minimally Invasive Parathyroid Surgery
  • Robotic and Laparoscopic Adrenal Surgery
  • Redo Parathyroid Surgeries and Neck Dissections for Recurrent Diseases

Medical Degree

Cairo University School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt, 1997

Residency Training

Surgical Resident, Department of Surgery, State University of New York (SUNY) Health Sciences Center, 2000-2005

Fellowship Training

  • Clinical Fellow, Surgical Endocrinology and Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2006-2007
  • Research Fellow and Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Department of Surgery, State University of New York (SUNY) Health Sciences Center, 2002 2003
  • Neuroendocrine Research Fellow, The Neuroimaging Laboratory, New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, 2000

Additional Training

MBA, Tulane University, 2015

Board Certifications

American Board of Surgery

Research Focus

Clinical outcomes related to endocrine surgery; endocrine tumor genetics; identification of novel targeted therapies directed at specific genetic mutations in thyroid cancer.