JHU Minimally Invasive Surgical Unit Tour
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 · 6 - 8 PM
Off Campus
This event is being hosted by the Baltimore ASME Professional Chapter, not UMBC's ASME chapter. The tour is an incredible opportunity to see the challenges faced by surgeons and gives attendees the opportunity to try out laproscopic surgical tools and a surgical robot in a training facility used by Johns Hopkins surgeons.
From the Baltimore Chapter of ASME's newsletter:
The Johns Hopkins/United States Surgical Minimally Invasive Surgical Training Center (MISTC) was launched February 6, 2002 with $3.5 million in funding from U.S. Surgical and equipment donations from Stryker Communications and Steris Corp. This center offers specialists at Hopkins and elsewhere a place to practice minimally invasive surgeries on animate and inanimate models and mannequins. It also provides a venue for surgical and medical device companies to test new instruments.The facility features two laboratory training areas with a total of nine operating tables, a state-of-theart conference room with seating for 34, locker rooms and office space. Robotic surgery may be performed in either suite. Faculty and trainers standing at the conference room's podium can view and discuss operations conducted in the next room. Telemedicine capabilities will allow lectures to be broadcast anywhere in the world and permit physicians to direct operations in distant locations.
On February 23, 2011 from 6-8 pm, we will get an inside look at the MISTC and have the opportunity to try out the DaVinci surgical robot and other laparoscopic surgical techniques, see the challenges faced by surgeons, and learn about the history and future of minimally invasive surgery. Please join us for an exciting, hands-on visit to this facility.
