HEALTHCARE DAY – ROBOTIC SURGERY – DAY 1
Challenges, Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Robotics
CONFERENCE
Local Scientific and Organizational Committee:
Franco Mosca – Mauro Ferrari – Franca Melfi – Rodolfo Capanna – Cesare Selli – Stefano Berrettini – Francesco Francesca – Stefano Sellari Franceschini – Angiolo Gadducci
Chairs
Sir ALFRED CUSCHIERI, Director of the Institute of Medical Science and Technology (IMSaT), Dundee (Scotland)
MAURO FERRARI, Professore Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Pisa
ANDREA PIETRABISSA, Professor of General Surgery, University of Pavia
Keynote Lectures
Each Speaker is kindly asked to expose what he has validated, what he is doing and his vision of the future in his specialty.
30 min. for presentations
09.00 – 10.00
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
Claudio Vicini, Director of U.O. ORL and Cervical-Facial Surgery, G.B. Morgagni Hospital, Forlì (I)
George Lawson, Director Head & Neck Dept., Cliniques Universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne (B)
10.00 – 11.00
Orthopedic Surgery
Fares Addad, Professor at UCL Hospital, London (UK)
Eric Garling, University Medical Center, Leiden (NL)
11.00
Interval
11.30 – 12.30
Vascular Surgery
Alexey Arkhipov, Chief of Congenital Cardiac Surgery Dept., Head of Minimal Invasive and Robotics Sugery Centre, Novosibirsk (Russia)
Petr Vitasek, Dept. of Vascular Surgery, Na Homolce Hospital, Praha (CZ)
12.30 – 13.30
Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Bernard Park, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York (USA)
L. Wiley Nifong, Professor Cardiovascular Surgery Chair, Director of The Robotic Surgery Center for Training and Education, East Carolina Heart Institute (USA)
13.30 – 14.30
Interval
14.30 – 15.00
General Surgery
Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, Chief of Div. of Minimally Invasive, General & Robotic Surgery, University of Illinois of Chicago (USA)
15.00 – 15.30
Endocrinological Surgery
Woong Youn Chung, Chair Dept. of Surgery, Younsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul (Corea)
15.30 – 16.00
Urologic Surgery
Oussama El Hage, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
16.00 – 16.30
Gynaecological Surgery
Angelo Maggioni, Director of Gynaecological Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan (I)
Special talk
16.30
Conventional Min-invasive and Robotic Surgery can they increase volume and quality of organ donation?
Alessandro Nanni Costa, Director of National Transplant Centre, Roma
16.50
Conclusions of the day

