With the prestige gained over years of individual and collective experience in the treatment of illnesses through minimal access surgery, Cuban experts are aware of the necessary challenge of continually modernizing and mastering knowledge related to the development of new technologies, such as robotics, in the field of surgery.
Thus the importance of an event, which will begin this Friday, February 3, in Havana's Hotel Nacional, devoted to updating and sharing scientific knowledge related to robotic and laparoscopic surgery, in the fields of Urology, General Surgery and Gynecology; three of the leading areas related to these processes, with a special emphasis on the use of robotics, according to Dr. Julián Ruiz Torres, director of Cuba's National Center for Minimal Access Surgery
(CNCMA) and Dr. Tania González León, head of the institution's Urology department, speaking to Granma International.
Attending the encounter, organized by the CNCMA, and the Cuban Endoscope Surgery and Urology societies, are numerous specialists from some of the country's top healthcare institutions, such as the Medical-Surgical Research Center (Cimeq), Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, Nephrology Institute and CNCMA itself.
Also scheduled to participate in the scientific event will be prestigious U.S. professors, including Dr. Vipul Patel, medical director of the Global Robotics Institute affiliated with the Florida-based Celebration Hospital; and professor of Urology at the University of Central Florida; who is also considered to be the leading expert on robotic surgery in the world.
Meanwhile, conferences will be given by Dr. Gaetano Ciancio, chief of medicine at the Miami Jackson Memorial Transplant Institute, in Florida; and Dr. Eduardo Parra-Davila, clinical assistant professor at Florida State University.
"This will be an important opportunity to strengthen ties of academic exchange between these institutions and the National Center for Minimal Access Surgery, in order to raise the quality of medical care in country, specifically in the field of minimally invasive surgery. However, it also represents a bridge to the path that will allow us, in the future, to master technologies to perform robot assisted surgeries," explained Dr. González León.
Two days of debates including, among other topics, innovations in the field of general surgery and the advantages of the use of robotics in this sphere, will contribute to the development of Cuban professionals in their effort to master more sophisticated procedures, such as non-scarring surgery: no longer a future, but a present objective.
