Laparoscopy Today

2011 SLS EXCEL AWARD

Michel Gagner, MD, PhD
2011 SLS Excel Award Recipient

Established in 1991, the Excel Award has been presented to 25 surgeons who have made outstanding contributions to laparoscopy, endoscopy, and minimally invasive surgery. The Excel Award may be presented to an individual, in any field, who has made outstanding contributions to laparoscopy, endoscopy, and/or the field of minimally invasive surgery. Previous recipients have been from various specialties and various nationalities.

Three Outstanding SLS Programs for Residents

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROGRAMS: MAY 6, 2011
Download the Flyer or Get Details at www.SLS.org/awards

1. $1000.00 Michael S. Kavic Award for Best Resident Paper
2. SLS Annual Meeting and Endo Expo Scholarships
3. SLS Outstanding Resident Award 

REPORT FROM THE SPECIAL SLS WORKSHOP: Recent Findings About How Our Brains Learn: Implications for How we Teach

by Ann Conti Morcos, MA, ELS

The brain can’t handle nonsense, but it can handle meaning.
--Hilliard Jason, MD, PhD

A special workshop was held at the 19th SLS Annual Meeting and Endo Expo in New York City for faculty, moderators, residents, and fellows. Hilliard Jason, MD, PhD, and his wife Jane Westberg, PhD, education experts, discussed “Recent findings about how our brains learn. Implications for how we teach.” 

Being a Great Surgical Teacher

"Being effective teachers, like being effective clinicians, depends in part on what we do, and in part on who we are. In both domains we deal with people, and in both domains everything begins with an accurate and complete diagnosis. (Yes, great teaching also begins with being a diagnostician.)

Good brain research is confirming that we are all unique in the ways we perceive the world and in the ways we learn. We are even more diverse as learners than we are in the ways we manifest our medical needs." -- excerpted from Being/Becoming a Great Surgical Teacher by Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD 

Even if you missed the learning session or teaching workshop presented by Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD, at the SLS 19th Annual Meeting and Endo Expo 2010, you can still get the distilled notes.  Review 8 questions you should ask yourself as a teacher, and get the opportunity to go further into the topic through the suggested reading list.

FROM THE 19TH SLS ANNUAL MEETING: AWARD FOR BEST POSTER OVERALL

The 19th SLS Annual Meeting and Endo Expo 2010 Award for Best Poster went to Michael C. Lee, MD, for his presentation "Tumor in Solitary Kidney: Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy Versus Laparoscopic Cryoablation." To compete for the $500 Award, recipients must score high

19TH SLS ANNUAL MEETING PHOTO GALLERY NOW OPEN

 View the 19th SLS Annual Meeting Photo Gallery and Proceedings / General Session Abstracts.

FROM THE 19TH SLS ANNUAL MEETING: Award Winning Resident Paper

 Vadim P. Koshenkov, MD, (left) received the Michael S. Kavic (left) Award for Best Resident Paper for his abstract submission to the SLS 19th Annual Meeting and Endo Expo 2010

Laparoscopic Approach After Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Recurrence

Khaled El Zarrok Elgazwi, MD, PhD, Prof. Ivo. Baca, MD, PhD, Akrem Elshakhy, MD,  Arash Khani, MD
Klinikum Bremen ost. Bremen, Germany 

Background: Recurrent inguinal hernias have occurred after endoscopic inguinal hernia repair, although far less frequently than after conventional repair (in the literature between 0.1% to 1.5%). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether these recurrences can be repaired by using the laparoscopic approach with acceptable complication and recurrence rates.

FROM THE 18th SLS ANNUAL MEETING: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PLENARY SESSION CANCER AND LAPAROSCOPY

The Role of Robotics in Gynecologic Oncology: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly presented by Farr Nezhat, MD

The robot has many advantages. It is 3-dimensional, tremor filtration, intuitive movement, 90-degree articulation, and fewer assistants are needed. However, it does have disadvantages.

FROM THE 18th SLS ANNUAL MEETING: HONORARY CHAIR PRESENTATION

The Development of Laparoscopic Surgery in Guatemala and Central America
presented by Roberto Gallardo Diaz, MD, Honorary Chair

 In the third world, 50% to 60% of surgeries are open; however, surgeons are starting to learn laparoscopic techniques.  They work hard and try to stay up-to-date. Now technology is open to everyone, so laparoscopy is becoming more widespread in areas like Central America.

FROM THE 18th SLS ANNUAL MEETING: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PLENARY SESSION CANCER AND LAPAROSCOPY

Advanced Robotic Technique as a Surgical Treatment Option for Prostate Cancer
David Samadi, MD

What you leave behind is as important as what you remove. Robotic treatment of prostate cancer offers benefits over other approaches.