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.

September 1997:

Hair Harvest Medical Center opens its 1^st 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.

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

Thomas n the late Dr Sundarason , regarded as father of hair transplant in Singapore , examining a attendee

Thomas delivering his speech

Mr Ian See , our HK director speaking with Dr Sundarason

A Attentive participant posing a Q to the panel

March 2000:

Another 2^nd 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.

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.

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 29^th year, I attended my 1^st ISHRS annual scientific congress in the year 1995 at Orlando which was the 3^RD 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

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

** at the 5^th 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