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Quan-Yang Duh is a pioneering endocrine surgeon whose work has fundamentally reshaped the surgical approach to thyroid and parathyroid disease. His research centers on advancing minimally invasive and remote-access techniques, with a particular focus on robotic and endoscopic thyroidectomy. Duh’s major contributions include demonstrating the safety and efficacy of transoral robotic thyroidectomy, which eliminates visible neck scars. In a landmark 2020 propensity-score-matched analysis (62 citations), he showed that transoral robotic thyroidectomy offers comparable surgical outcomes to the transoral endoscopic approach, providing crucial evidence for the robotic method’s adoption. Earlier, his 2011 work on robot-assisted endoscopic thyroidectomy (34 citations) helped establish the foundational principles for robotic neck surgery. Duh has also been instrumental in defining the field itself, co-authoring key papers that classify and standardize minimally invasive and remote-access thyroid and parathyroid procedures. His work at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has been particularly influential, combining rigorous outcomes analysis with technical innovation. With a career spanning over two decades, Duh’s research has directly shaped modern endocrine surgery, offering patients safer, scarless options while setting the standard for evidence-based surgical innovation.