Faculty
BARIATRIC SURGERY
Alex Gandsas, MD
Director, Metabolic Surgery Program
Anne Arundel Hospital
Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Surgical Telementoring Using a Robot
Ninh Nguyen, MD
Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
UC Irvine School of Medicine
Irvine, California, USA
Telementoring and the FAME Grant
OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Carl H. Snyderman, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology
Co-director of the UPMC Center for Skull Base Surgery
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Telementoring for Patient Care and Physician Expertise
PEDIATRIC SURGERY
Todd Ponsky, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Akron Children’s Hospital
Akron, Ohio, USA
Pediatric Telementoring
Surgical Skills Acquisition
Steven Rothenberg , MD
Chief of Pediatric Surgery
Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children
Denver, Colorado, USA
Comparative Technology in Telementoring
Logistical Challenges
ADULT GENERAL SURGERY
Brian Dunkin, MD
Chair in Surgical Innovation and Technology
Head, Section of Endoscopic Surgery
Medical Director MITIE℠
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas, USA
Comparative Technology
SAGES Presidential Address
Knut Magne Augestad , MD , PhD
Specialist in General Surgery
Oslo University Hospital AHUS, Oslo, Norway
Research manager
Norwegian National Centre of Telemedicine Tromsø Norway
Novel Use of Existing Software for Telementoring
Conor Delaney, MD, PhD
Chairman of the Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Comparative Technology in Telementoring
Shafi Ahmed, PhD, FRCS
Associate Dean of Bart’s Medical School
The Royal London and St. Bartholomew’s Hospitals
London, England
Snapchat Spectacles Broadcast Surgery
Rifat Latifi, MD
Director of Department of Surgery
Chief of General Surgery
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York
PPT – International Telemedicine and eHealth New Way of Providing Medical Care
Liam Horgan, FRCSI, FRCS (Gen Surg)
Northhumbria Healthcare Trust
North Shieds, England, UK
UK Laparoscopic training to Tanzania
ROBOTIC SURGERY
Mehran Anvari, MD
Chair of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Surgical Innovation
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Telementoring as an Educational Tool
Christopher Schlachta, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology,
Medical Director,
CSTAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics)
Western University and London Health Sciences Center
London, Ontario, Canada
Standards for Advanced Laparoscopic Telementoring
Walter Chitwood, MD
East Carolina Medical School
Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Robotic Mitral Valve