Dr. Kandil is a Professor of Surgery, the Elias Hanna Chair in Surgery and the Chief of General, Endocrine and Oncological Surgery Division at Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, LA. He is also an executive member of the Tulane Cancer Executive Council and the director of the clinical Endocrine Surgery Fellowship at Tulane. Dr. Kandil is a fellow of the prestigious American Surgical Association and a member of the Southern Surgical Association. He is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He serves on several national and international committees and has served in multiple institutional leadership positions, including being the Chair of the General Medical Faculty. Dr. Kandil has written approximately 300 original articles, invited reviews and book chapters, and served on numerous editorial boards. Dr. Kandil has a special interest in robotic endocrine surgery and he has the most experience in the country with robotic thyroid and parathyroid surgery. His research interests have focused on clinical outcome research related to endocrine surgery. His laboratory research focus is on the identification of novel genetic markers and examining the anti-tumor efficacy of multiple pathways targeting thyroid cancer using in vitro and mouse-model cells in addition to human specimens.