Dr. Victoria Banuchi is a head and neck surgeon at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Her research interests include minimally invasive approaches to thyroid and parathyroid surgery. It is considerable honor for AOT to interview Dr. Banuchi on her article “Starting an inner city transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA) program – patient recruitment strategies” contributing to the focused issue, conditions of patient recruitment in her TOETVA program and, tips and technical issues for performing TOETVA.
