Milestone & Accolades

May 1996

Founding Chairman Thomas Tham signed a Master Franchise with Dr. Matt Leavitte of MHR Orlando USA to spearhead the state of the art Hair transplant technology into SE Asia. An elite team of medical doctors, nurses, and marketing consultants were sent to Medical Hair Restoration  (MHR) for a 4 to 6 months training.

January 1997:

Hair Harvest received its initial pair of Ambassadors from HK, Mr. Roger N Mr. Perkins to carry out the medical hair procedure at Their Orchard Clinic. Both gentlemen were fully satisfied with the services rendered that they consented to be our first Overseas Ambassadors who later participated in Hair Synergy Guangzhou Seminar at The Famous  Garden Hotel.

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Ambassadors Fr HK 1st 2 customers

September 1997:

Hair Harvest Medical Center opens its 1st clinic in the prime shopping Orchard district at Ngee Ann City.

November 1997:

Hair Harvest held the first public Hair Loss Seminar, approved by MOH at The Suntec Convention Centre, and received an overwhelming response with more than 500 attendees. Dr. Russel Knudsen, incumbent President of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) was the guest speaker.

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Suntec Talk

February 1998:

A Sales office is set up in Hong Kong soon to be followed by a clinic in Shanghai in cooperation with a JV technology subsidiary of world-renowned Shanghai Medical University. Its main focus is to attract customers from Singapore Malaysia and Hong Kong to do the medical hair procedure under a carefully marketed medical tourism programme.

October 1998:

The hair seminar event at Guangzhou The Garden hotel in October 1998

March 2000:

Another 2nd  independent clinic opens in Guangzhou with Professor Wang of the Keli Plastic Surgery Clinic supervising a medical team of doctors n technicians.

April 2001:

Hair Synergy together with The DHI Group, in Athens  Greece achieved another first by acquiring the NO TOUCH technique in hair transplant, using the unique CHOI hair implanters.

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HS nurses in Athens

January 2002:

Bosley’s of USA which is still currently the world’s longest established and renowned industry leader in Modern Hair Restoration, started a series of discussions and visits to acquire Hair Synergy for their objective of establishing their presence in Asia. The acquisition sum was discussed around a 7 figure quantum and unfortunately did not conclude due to bureaucracy. MOH put a restriction on who can do the hair restoration procedure.

September 2003:

Mr. Thomas Tham after many attempts through the media and government channels finally appealed successfully to MTI  and MOH to lift the ban forbidding GP’s to perform the medical hair procedure. Health Minister Mr. Khaw Boon Wan revoked the ruling and allow general medical practitioners with sufficient experience and relevant training to perform the hair restoration methods of operation.

June 2004:

In cooperation with 2 medical doctors in KL, Hair Synergy introduced the FUE “no-touch “ technique and received tremendous response.

2006/2007:

Mr. Tham was appointed Consultant to the Parkway Shenton group to jumpstart the FUE technology and introduce  Hair Transplant services as an additional specialty. Together with their trained doctor and an experienced technician, we successfully launched the FUE technique both in Singapore and Vietnam and were able to further offer eye brows, beards, mustaches, and side burns enhancements for the vanity males.

2008/2014:

Consultant cum director attached with a local major wellness salon chain and also marketing consultant to an established Hair Transplant clinic in Bangkok.

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JV partner with dr Viroj of HHH clinic bkk

2016/2019:

Until before the Covid-19 pandemic as business development and market consultant to two of the BIG FOUR  Hair Transplant Group in China, each with at least 25  clinics throughout China,  acting as a bridge between the East and The West, forging close ties and exchange of know-how n latest technology.

As a veteran in the hair restoration industry, Thomas is an associated or full member of the various prestigious and professional hair restoration industry. These are :

  • ISHRS       The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery
  • AAHRS    Asian Association Hair Restoration Surgery
  • CAHRS    China Association Hair Restoration Society
  • RHRS        Regenerative Hair Restoration Society

Annual Scientific Congress and Medical Conferences are held periodically apart from in-depth highly educational latest discovery workshops many times a year.

For the ISHRS which is now in its 29th year, I attended my 1st ISHRS annual scientific  congress in the year 1995 at Orlando  which was the 3RD ISHRS  event

Since then I have attended no less than fifteen of such important and prestigious gatherings where you renew n make new friends n global acquaintances as well as keeping oneself ahead of the industry.

The following are some of which I attended  Photos insert can tell a good story and identify “who is who”

ISHRS  annual scientific  global congress which I attended

  • 3rd   Annual  1995   Orlando
  • 5th Annual 1997     San Francisco
  • 14th annual 2006  San Diego
  • 15th  annual 2007 Les Vegas
  • 16h annual 2008  Montreal
  • 18th annual 2010 Boston
  • 20th  annual 2012  Bahama
  • 22nd annual 2014  KL Malaysia
  • 24th annual 2016 Les Vegas
  • 25th Annual 2017  Prague
  • 26th Annual  2019  Bangkok

** at the 5th AAHRS Scientific n Live workshop held in BKK April 2017, I was also a guest speaker delivering a paper on Aspects of Hair Transplant Market in Asia  . and  again in Shanghai at the CAHRS annual meeting in 2018

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Annual ISHRS conference show thomas delivering a paper 2019

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