Dr Vijay Pillai is the Consultant and Chief of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, Narayana Health City, and Consultant at Narayana Clinic, Bangalore.He has extensive surgical and clinical experience of more than 20 years covering clinical work in Head and Neck oncology, microvascular reconstructive surgery, maxillofacial surgery. He has trained extensively and holds a dual qualification of medicine and dentistry and specialization in Head and Neck Oncology. His areas of expertise include oral, laryngeal, salivary gland, thyroid tumors both benign and malignant and their management. His special interests are in advanced head and neck cancers and microvascular reconstruction, on the translational research his areas of focus are on the use of AI/ML and development of prediction models. He is the Director of the Head and Neck Fellowship Program at Narayana Health City, Bangalore. He has around 36 scientific publications, co-authored 7 textbook chapters on Head and Neck oncology. He is the Principal Investigator for 4 clinical trials, Program Director of the AOCMF Fellowship Program in India, Vice Chair of the AOMSI Oral Oncology Fellowship Program in India. He has presented extensively at National and International Scientific meetings as an invited speaker and guest faculty.

Dr Vijay Pillai is the Consultant and Chief of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, Narayana Health City, and Consultant at Narayana Clinic, Bangalore.He has extensive surgical and clinical experience of more than 20 years covering clinical work in Head and Neck oncology, microvascular reconstructive surgery, maxillofacial surgery. He has trained extensively and holds a dual qualification of medicine and dentistry and specialization in Head and Neck Oncology. His areas of expertise include oral, laryngeal, salivary gland, thyroid tumors both benign and malignant and their management. His special interests are in advanced head and neck cancers and microvascular reconstruction, on the translational research his areas of focus are on the use of AI/ML and development of prediction models. He is the Director of the Head and Neck Fellowship Program at Narayana Health City, Bangalore. He has around 36 scientific publications, co-authored 7 textbook chapters on Head and Neck oncology. He is the Principal Investigator for 4 clinical trials, Program Director of the AOCMF Fellowship Program in India, Vice Chair of the AOMSI Oral Oncology Fellowship Program in India. He has presented extensively at National and International Scientific meetings as an invited speaker and guest faculty.