SCIENCE@ITSCON
Science at ITSCON is an exciting mix of concepts, controversies, practice at cusp and evolving ideas. The program is a melange of plenaries, lectures and symposia, clinical case seminars, debates and meet the expert session allowing the discerning clinician to choose and learn in a format that he is most comfortable with. The program has been designed to maximise learning, minimise bias and improve interaction with the strong national and international faculty. A sample of the topics are below.
| Day 1 - Hall - A - 14th August 2026 (Friday) | |||
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| Time | Topics | Speaker | Moderator / Chairperson |
| 09.00 to 10.00 | Workshop: Congenital Hypothyroidism | ||
| 09.00 to 09.15 | Interpretation of Neonatal Thyroid Function Tests | Dr. Mohan Shenoy | Dr. P G Sundararaman |
| 09.15 to 09.30 | Levothyroxine Therapy in Infants: Dosing, Monitoring, and Challenges | Dr. Shriraam Mahadevan | Dr. Kumaravel V Dr. Jayashree Gopal |
| 09.30 to 09.45 | Transient vs Permanent Congenital Hypothyroidism | Dr. V Sri Nagesh | |
| 09.45 to 10.00 | Discussion | ||
| 10.00 to 11.00 | Workshop: Indeterminate Thyroid Nodule | ||
| 10.00 to 10.15 | AUS Thyroid Nodules: Repeat FNAC or Molecular Testing? | Dr. Sujoy Ghosh | Dr. S. Murthy |
| 10.15 to 10.30 | Ultrasound Risk Stratification in Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules | Dr. Saptarshi Bhattacharya | Dr. Hamid Ashraf |
| 10.30 to 10.45 | Optimizing Extent of Surgery in Molecularly Suspicious Nodules | Dr. Himagirish K. Rao | Dr. Subhash Yadav |
| 10.45 to 11.00 | Discussion | ||
| 11.00 to 11.45 | Clinical Case Seminar: Medical Management of Thyrotoxicosis (including indefinite medical therapy) |
Moderator: Dr. M V Rama Mohan |
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| Panel Members: Dr. S.V. Madhu Dr. Mini G Pillai Dr. Kavya J Dr. Ritesh Kumar Agarwala |
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| 11.45 to 12.00 | Break | ||
| 12.00 to 12.45 | Clinical Case Seminar: Autonomously Functioning Thyroid nodule | Moderator: Dr. G. Shanmugasundar |
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| Panel Members: Dr. George Thomas Dr. Smitha Nalla Dr. Chandan Kamath Dr. Aneez Joseph |
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| 12.50 to 13.30 | Welcome Honours Presidential Oration | Dr. Narendra Kotwal | |
| 13.30 to 14.15 | Lunch | ||
| 14.15 to 15.30 | Special Symposia: Drugs and Thyroid Function | ||
| 14.15 to 14.35 | Drug interference in thyroid absorption: An Update | Dr. Arun Menon | Dr. Alpesh Goyal |
| 14.35 to 14.55 | Immune and Cancer Therapies and thyroid dysfunction | Dr. Shashank R. Joshi | Dr. Manish S Kushe |
| 14.55 to 15.15 | Alternatives to early morning thyroid dosing: a review | Dr. Abhay Sahoo | Dr. Mahesh Sukumaran |
| 15.15 to 15.25 | Discussion | ||
| 15.25 to 16.35 | Special Symposia: Translational Thyroidology | ||
| 15.25 to 15.45 | Lessons from GWAS on the Genetics of Thyroid dysfunction and their clinical relevance | Dr. Joe George | Dr. N. K. Agarwal Dr. Ved Prakash |
| 15.45 to 16.05 | Placental handling of Thyroid and Iodine: What are the lessons | Dr. Pinnaki Dutta | Dr. Ganesh Moorthy |
| 16.05 to 16.25 | The T3BR as a metabolic switch: Clinical implications | Dr. Pramila Kalra | |
| 16.25 to 16.35 | Discussion | ||
| 16.35 to 17.30 | Special Symposia: Thyroid Eye Disease | ||
| 16.35 to 16.50 | Dysthyroid orbitopathy in India: Are there regional differences in prevalence and what are the causes | Dr. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy | Dr. Anulekha Mary John Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| 16.50 to 17.15 | Steroid use in Dysthyroid orbitopathy: Evidence, Regimen and Current Role | Dr. Sachin Mittal | Dr. Venkata Rakesh |
| 17.15 to 17.30 | What is the role of surgery and radioiodine in the management of Dysthyroid Eye disease? | Dr. Bharath Ramji | |
| 17.30 to 17.40 | Discussion | ||
| 17.40 to 18.20 | Special Symposia: Practical Thyroidology | ||
| 17.40 to 17.55 | Thyroxine Malabsorption: Recognition Diagnosis and Care | Dr. P K Jabbar | Dr. K. Vamsi Krishna |
| 17.55 to 18.10 | Inconsistencies in Thyroid formulations in the market and its implications for patient care | Dr. Sailaja A | Dr. Sankarnath Jha Dr. Kavitha S |
| 18.10 to 18.20 | Discussion | ||
| 18.30 to 19.30 | General Body Meeting in Hall B | ||
| 19.30 onwards | Inauguration & Entertainment & Dinner | ||
| Day 1 - Hall - B - 14th August 2026 (Friday) | |||
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| Time | Topics | Speaker | Moderator / Chairperson |
| 09.00 to 10.00 | Special Symposia: Thyroid disorders and environmental determinants | ||
| 09.00 to 09.15 | Environmental Goitrogens and their clinical implications | Dr. Beatrice Anne | Dr. Sudeep Putta Manohar |
| 09.15 to 09.30 | Nutritional Modulation in Thyroid disease: Fact or Fiction | Dr. Ravishankar. E | Dr. Ravikannan |
| 09.30 to 09.45 | T3 mimetic endocrine disruptors: a primer for the clinician | Dr. Nitin Kapoor | Dr. Meher Prasad |
| 09.45 to 10.00 | Discussion | ||
| 10.00 to 11.00 | Special Symposia: Thyroid axis and Inflammation | ||
| 10.00 to 10.15 | The Thyroid axis in Obesity | Dr. Sambit Das | Dr. Saumik Dutta |
| 10.15 to 10.30 | Thyroid dysfunction in Immuno-Inflammatory disease | Dr. Manoj Chadha | Dr. Sumit Chakraborty |
| 10.30 to 10.45 | IgG4 related Thyroid Disease | Dr. Ameya Joshi | TBD |
| 10.45 to 11.00 | Discussion | ||
| 11.00 to 11.45 | Clinical Case Seminar: Thyroid hormone resistance | Moderator: Dr. Nilakshi Deka |
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| Panel Members: Dr. Leelavathy K Dr. Sharvil Gadve Dr. Warun Kumar |
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| 11.45 to 12.00 | Break | ||
| 12.00 to 12.45 | Clinical Case Seminar: Compressive and Retrosternal MNG | Moderator: Dr. Vasireddy Nayana Tara |
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| Panel Members: Dr. Ranjith Sukumar Dr. Sabaretnam Mayilvaganan Dr. Arunkumar R Pande Dr. Arun Mithra |
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| 12.50 to 13.30 | Oration Hall A | ||
| 13.30 to 14.15 | Lunch | ||
| 14.15 to 15.30 | Special Symposia: Thyroid Pathology | ||
| 14.15 to 14.35 | What constitutes - High Risk Thyroid Cancer Morphology - A pathologic approach | Dr. Anjali Sathya | Dr. Subhodip Pramanik Dr. Sanjay Saran Dr. Sai Vishnupriya Vittal |
| 14.35 to 14.55 | What is Bethesda III and What is not? A cytologic perspective | Dr. Sushama Patil | |
| 14.55 to 15.15 | Metastasis to the thyroid - Clinico Imaging Correlates | Dr. Adlyne Reena A | |
| 15.15 to 15.25 | Discussion | ||
| 15.25 to 16.35 | Special Symposia: Difficult Thyroid Cancer | ||
| 15.25 to 15.45 | Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer : An Update | Dr. Amit Agarwal | Dr. A. Prem Kumar |
| 15.45 to 16.05 | Treatment options in Iodine Non-Avid Thyroid Cancer | Dr. Subbiah Sridhar | Dr. Jeo George Mangalan Dr. Kumaran M.P. |
| 16.05 to 16.25 | DTC with bone metastatsis | Dr. Chitraselvan | |
| 16.25 to 16.35 | Discussion | ||
| 16.35 to 17.30 | Workshop: Nuclear medicine therapies and the thyroid | ||
| 16.35 to 16.50 | Current Indications for Radioiodine Therapy in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer | Dr. KVS Harikumar | Dr. Prabhu E Dr. Arun Prashanth |
| 16.50 to 17.05 | Radioiodine Therapy for Graves' Disease: Contemporary Perspectives | Dr. Gagan Priya | Dr. Maharajan R |
| 17.05 to 17.20 | PET-CT and Nuclear Imaging in Thyroid Cancer | Dr. Santhosh Sampath | Dr. Aashish Reddy Bande |
| 17.20 to 17.30 | Discussion | ||
| 17.30 to 18.25 | Workshop: Minimally invasive or non-invasive thyroid interventions | ||
| 17.30 to 17.45 | Patient Selection for Non-Surgical Thyroid Interventions | Dr. Sridhar S | Dr. Warun Kumar |
| 17.45 to 18.00 | Comparative Outcomes of RFA, Laser, and Microwave Ablation | Dr. Aneesh Ghosh | Dr. Palanivel S |
| 18.00 to 18.15 | How Endocrinologists Can Build an Interventional Thyroid Practice | Dr. Subramanian Kannan | Dr. Dheeraj Kapoor |
| 18.15 to 18.25 | Discussion | ||
| 18.30 to 19.30 | General Body Meeting | ||
| 19.30 onwards | Inauguration & Entertainment & Dinner | ||
| Day 1 - Hall - C - 14th August 2026 (Friday) | |||
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| Time | Topics | Speaker | Moderator / Chairperson |
| 09.30 to 10.30 | Oral Paper presentation | Judges: | Judges: |
| Dr. Priyadharsini R Dr. Alpesh Goyal |
Dr. Anulekha Mary John Dr. Dheeraj Kapoor |
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| 10.30 to 11.30 | Oral Paper presentation | Judges: | |
| Dr. Nivethitha Karthika Dr. Akil Joshi |
Dr. Shruthi Bettegowda Dr. Durairaj Arjunan |
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| 11.30 to 12.30 | ITS Guidelines Discussion | ||
| 11.30 to 12.30 | Thyroid Cancer Working Group | ||
| 12.50 to 13.30 | Oration Hall A | ||
| 13.30 to 14.15 | Lunch | ||
| 14.15 to 15.00 | ITS Primary Care Focus: Subclinical Hypothyroidism - Screening Work up and Care | Moderator: Dr. Manikandan R M |
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| Panel Members: Dr. Sandeep Devi Reddy Dr. Sneha Sharvil Gadve Dr. Vaibhav Dukle Dr. Arun Kannan K |
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| 15.00 to 15.45 | ITS Primary Care Focus: Thyroxine use in clinical care - initiation titration and maintenance | Moderator: Dr. Suresh Prabhu R |
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| Panel Members: Dr. Arul Prakash Dr. Ankush Desai Dr. Tarun Sekhri Dr. Nivethitha Karthika |
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| 15.45 to 17.00 | Management of thyroid disease in special populations: | ||
| 15.45 to 16.00 | Thyroid Disorders in Children | Dr. Ganavi Y P | Dr. Krishna Reddy Thaduri |
| 16.00 to 16.15 | Thyroid Disorders in Pregnancy | Dr. Jayashree Gopal | Dr. B. Harish Darla |
| 16.15 to 16.30 | Thyroid disorders in Elderly | Dr. Sadishkumar Kamalnathan | Dr. Balaji Chidambaram |
| 16.30 to 16.45 | Perioperative thyroid management | Dr. Narayanan NK | |
| 16.45 to 17.00 | Discussion | ||
| 19.30 onwards | Inauguration & Entertainment & Dinner | ||
| Day 2 - Hall - A - 15th August 2026 (Saturday) | |||
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| Time | Topics | Speaker | Moderator / Chairperson |
| 09.00 to 10.00 | Workshop: Advances in Thyroid Ultrasound | ||
| 09.00 to 09.15 | Ultrasound Risk Stratification Systems: ATA vs ACR TI-RADS vs EU-TIRADS | Dr. Ashu Rastogi | Dr. Sudeep Gandra Reddy Dr. Sidduq Nikith. Z |
| 09.15 to 09.30 | Beyond TI-RADS: Advanced Thyroid Imaging | Dr. Deep Dutta | Dr. Divya C Ragate |
| 09.30 to 09.45 | Artificial Intelligence in Thyroid Ultrasound | Dr. Om Lakhani | |
| 09.45 to 10.00 | Discussion | ||
| 10.00 to 10.45 | Debate: Current TSH targets in pregnancy are an overkill | ||
| For | Dr. Sruthi Chandrasekaran | ||
| Against | Dr. Sowmik Goswami | ||
| Balanced Overview | Dr. Subhankar Chowdhury | ||
| 10.45 to 11.30 | Clinical Case Seminar: | Moderator: Dr. Usha Ayyagari |
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| Low risk DTC | Panel Members: Dr. SK Sharma Dr. Sunanda T Dr. S Umadevi Dr. Debmalya Sanyal |
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| 11.30 to 11.45 | Break | ||
| Day 2 - Hall - A - 15th August 2026 (Saturday) | |||
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| Time | Topics | Speaker | Moderator / Chairperson |
| 11.45 to 13.00 | Special Symposia: Potpourri | ||
| 11.45 to 12.05 | TSH to T-Score | Dr. Kumaravel V | Dr. R V Jayakumar Dr. Vidhya Rajeev Jahagirdar |
| 12.05 to 12.25 | TSH: Thyroid function and longevity | Dr. Mathew John | TBD |
| 12.25 to 12.45 | Autoimmune Thyroid Disease in Specific Genetic Disorders | Dr. Vimal MV | |
| 12.45 to 13.00 | Discussion | ||
| 13.00 to 13.25 | Keynote 1: The Thyroid - an evolutionary understanding | Dr. Krishna Seshadri | Dr. Muthukumaran Jayapaul |
| 13.25 to 13.50 | Keynote 2: Personalised thyroid care: When & How to use T3/T4 together |
Dr. Nisha Bhavani | Dr. Arun Menon |
| 13.50 to 14.00 | Discussion | ||
| 14.00 | Valediction followed by Lunch | ||
| Day 2 - Hall - B - 15th August 2026 (Saturday) | |||
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| Time | Topics | Speaker | Moderator / Chairperson |
| 09.00 to 10.00 | Workshop: Advances in Thyroid Surgery | ||
| 09.00 to 09.15 | Intraoperative Neuromonitoring and parathyroid preservation | Dr. Pradeep P V | Dr. Sai Krishna Vittal |
| 09.15 to 09.30 | Recent Advancements in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery | Dr. Ritesh Agarwal | Dr. Ramya C. Valiveru |
| 09.30 to 09.45 | Robotic Thyroid Surgery: Hype or Future Standard? | Dr. Roma Pradhan | Dr. Muhamed Faizal Ayub |
| 09.45 to 10.00 | Discussion | ||
| 10.00 to 10.40 | Debate: Tissue Hypothyroidism is a cure in search of a disease | ||
| For | Dr. Jayaprakash Sahoo | ||
| Against | Dr. Ipsita Mishra | ||
| Balanced Overview | Dr. PG Sundararaman | ||
| 10.40 to 11.20 | Clinical Case Seminar: Locally invasive thyroid cancer (including aerodigestive invasion) |
Moderator: Dr. Dhalapathy Sadacharan |
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| Panel Members: Dr. Rajesh Rajendran Dr. S G Ramanan Dr. Sahana Shetty Dr. Sharvil Gadve |
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| 11.20 to 11.30 | Break | ||
| 11.30 to 12.40 | Special Symposia: Thyroid and Public health | ||
| 11.30 to 11.50 | Universal Iodisation : The threats and Tribulations | Dr. Raman Marwaha | Dr. Paranthaman |
| 11.50 to 12.10 | Universal Neonatal Thyroid screening in India: Why is it still a challenge? | Dr. Parag Shah | Dr. Vignesh. G Dr. S. Chandrasekar |
| 12.10 to 12.30 | Screening for thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy - Are we ready yet? | Dr. S. K Wagnoo | |
| 12.30 to 12.40 | Discussion | ||
| 12.40 to 13.40 | ITS Primary Care focus - Management of Hypothyroidism | ||
| 12.40 to 12.55 | Interpretation of TFT in Clinical practice | Dr. Tara Nath Koirala | Dr. Geethalakshmi |
| 12.55 to 13.10 | Management of Refractory Hypothyroidism | Dr. Robin Maskey | Dr. Shanmugam K |
| 13.10 to 13.25 | Hypothyroidism and Atypical Presentations | Dr. Ganpathi Bantwal | TBD |
| 13.25 to 13.40 | Discussion | ||
| 14.00 | Valediction followed by Lunch | ||