FLORENCE BIHAIN

French board‑certified general surgeon with advanced training in endocrine and surgical oncology and a strong academic focus on endocrine surgery. Extensive experience in minimally invasive, endocrine, bariatric, and surgical oncology with a robust publication record in high‑impact peer‑reviewed journals. Currently completing a U.S.‑based research fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine, with the goal of pursuing an academic surgical career in the United States.

Dual citizenship (Belgium-USA)

• Endocrine surgery (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal)
• Surgical oncology
• Minimally invasive & laparoscopic surgery
• Bariatric surgery
• Emergency general surgery
• Perioperative and critical decision‑making

• General surgery and endocrine surgery outcomes
• Minimally invasive and robotic surgery
• Perioperative physiology and metabolic outcomes
• Quality improvement and patient safety in surgery
• Surgical technology and intraoperative neuromonitoring

• 2024, Nomine-Criqui C, Bihain F, Nguyen-Thi PL, Scheyer N, Demarquet L, Klein M, Guerci B, Brunaud L. Patients with prediabetes improve insulin resistance after surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism. Surgery. 2024.
• 2023, Bihain F, Caron B, Ayav A, Peyrin-Biroulet L, Laurent V, Germain A. Preoperative magnetic resonance enterography to predict pathological specimen length in Crohn’s disease. Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 2023.
• 2023, Marciniak C, Bihain F, Caiazzo R, Brunaud L. Robotic thyroidectomy: recommendations of the AFCE, SFE, and SFMN. Journal of Visceral Surgery. 2023.
• 2022, Bihain F, Nomine-Criqui C, Guerci P, Gasman S, Klein M, Brunaud L. Management of patients with pheochromocytoma: a critical appraisal. Cancers (Basel). 2022.
• 2022, Al-Jehani A, Al-Ahmed F, Nguyen-Thi PL, Bihain F, Nomine-Criqui C, Demarquet L, Guerci B, Ziegler O. Insulin resistance is more severe in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. Surgery. 2022.
• 2022, Houy S, Streit L, Drissa I, Rame M, Decraene C, Moog S, Brunaud L, Lanoix J, Chelbi R, Bihain F, et al. Dysfunction of calcium-regulated exocytosis causes catecholamine hypersecretion in patients with pheochromocytoma. Cancer Letters. 2022.
• 2022, Streit L, Moog S, Hugel S, Rame M, Tanguy E, Andry V, Schmid HA, Brunaud L, Bihain F, et al. Somatostatin analogue pasireotide inhibits catecholamine secretion in human pheochromocytoma cells. Cancer Letters. 2022.
• 2022, Poirier A, Albuisson E, Bihain F, Granel-Brocard F, Perez M. Does preventive negative pressure wound therapy reduce local complications following lymph node dissection in metastatic skin tumors? Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery. 2022.
• 2021, Bihain F, Nomine-Criqui C, Demarquet L, Blanchard C, Gallet P, Nguyen-Thi PL, Mirallie E, Brunaud L. What is the impact of continuous neuromonitoring on the incidence of injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve during total thyroidectomy? Surgery. 2021.
• 2021, de Vendin OE, Fuchs-Buder T, Schmartz D, Nguyen DT, Gallet P, Bihain F, Nomine-Criqui C, Brunaud L. Impact of rocuronium on intraoperative neuromonitoring vagal amplitudes during thyroidectomy. Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery. 2021.
• 2020, Bihain F, Klein M, Nomine-Criqui C, Brunaud L. Robotic adrenalectomy in patients with pheochromocytoma: a systematic review. Gland Surgery. 2020.
• 2020, Koubaity O, Mandry D, Nguyen-Thi PL, Bihain F, Nomine-Criqui C, Demarquet L, Croise-Laurent V, Brunaud L. Coronary artery disease is more severe in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. Surgery. 2020.
• 2020, Brunaud L, Payet C, Polazzi S, Bihain F, Quilliot D, Lifante JC, Duclos A. Reoperation incidence and severity within 6 months after bariatric surgery: a nationwide propensity-matched study. Obesity Surgery. 2020.
• 2019, Bihain F, Demarquet L, Fuchs-Buder T, Nomine-Criqui C, Brunaud L. Needle electrodes inserted in the thyroid cartilage may provide better neuromonitoring signals during thyroidectomy. Gland Surgery. 2019.

• American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES), Dallas, TX, 2024, Intraoperative hemodynamic instability during laparoscopic adrenalectomy
• American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES), Birmingham, AL, 2023, Impact of surgery on insulin resistance in primary hyperparathyroidism
• French Association of Endocrine Surgery, Lille, France, 2019