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.