New Frontiers: Robotic Surgery Program at UAB
UAB Med Cast
English - February 19, 2018 15:00 - 12.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHealth & Fitness uab medicine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
UAB surgeons are pioneering procedures for robotic surgery for head-and-neck, lung, and other cancers to help push the technology far beyond its original emphasis on prostate cancer. In the process, UAB has become one of the busiest, most diverse, and most comprehensive robotic surgery programs in the nation with more than 20 surgeons in nine specialties performing more than 900 surgeries annually.
Of the surgeries at UAB, fully 75 percent are oncologic.
In this exciting segment, Dr. John Porterfield joins the show to share how UAB is setting new surgical standards and pushing the robotic surgery platform into previously untouched frontiers in a variety of fields.
For more information about our Surgical Training Programs, explore the webpages below.
General Surgery Residency – www.uab.edu/medicine/surgery/education/residents/gsr
OBGYN Residency - www.uab.edu/medicine/obgynresidency/
Urology Residency - www.uab.edu/medicine/urology/education
Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery Residency - www.uab.edu/medicine/otolaryngology/education/residency
