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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Innovations in Surgery: Surgical Robotics

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the third episode of the “Innovations in Surgery” series, Behind the Knife’s surgery education fellow, Dan Scheese, sits down with Adam Sachs and Dr. Igor Belyansky to discuss the current state and future of surgical robotics. They discuss the start up of Vicarious Surgical and how they are working to improve the current state of surgical robotics with their innovative ideas.

Link for the Vicarious Surgical website which includes a short video demonstration of their single port design: https://www. vicarioussurgical.com/

Adam Sachs is the CEO and Co-founder of Vicarious surgical, a surgical robotics company founded in 2014. As an MIT trained roboticist, Adam has combined his passion for robots with this passion for helping patients and enhancing the work environment for surgeons through the development of proprietary surgical robotics.

Dr. Igor Belyanksy, an internationally-recognized expert in the field of abdominal wall reconstruction and complex laparoscopic and robotic hernia repair. Dr. Belyansky has earned his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, completed his residency at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, and completed a minimally invasive fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center. Dr. Belyanksy is currently the Medical Director of Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis Maryland.

Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more.

If you liked this episode, check out other Innovations in Surgery episodes here: https://behindtheknife.org/podcast-series/innovations-in-surgery/


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Relevant and engaging content to sign to help you dominate the day.

0:42.9

Before we get started with this episode, we,

0:56.1

behind the knife, wanted to let you know that we do not endorse any particular surgical robot,

1:00.7

nor did receive any monetary support from Vicarious surgical for this episode.

1:05.7

We intend only to highlight innovations in surgery,

1:08.9

and we hope you enjoy the episode.

1:11.2

Welcome to Behind the Knife.

1:12.9

My name is Dan Shees, and I'm one of the surgical education fellows here at Behind the Knife.

1:18.0

Prior to AppSite season, we released the first two episodes of our new series titled

1:22.2

Innovations in Surgery, where we highlighted the utilization of artificial intelligence

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