- Surgical Simulation and Training
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Anatomy and Medical Technology
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Airway Management and Intubation Techniques
- Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Hernia repair and management
- Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- Augmented Reality Applications
- Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
- Abdominal Surgery and Complications
- Breast Implant and Reconstruction
- Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
- Tumors and Oncological Cases
- Surgical Sutures and Adhesives
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Teratomas and Epidermoid Cysts
- Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
- Radiation Dose and Imaging
- Advanced Sensor Technologies Research
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
North Shore Diabetes and Endocrine Associates
2025
Lenox Hill Hospital
2023-2025
Mount Auburn Hospital
2015-2022
Harvard University
2014-2022
The University of Texas at Austin
2020
Harvard University Press
2015
University of Southern California
2010-2014
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2014
Southern California University for Professional Studies
2010
LAC+USC Medical Center
2009
Objectives. To conduct a review of the state virtual reality (VR) simulation technology, to identify areas surgical education that have greatest potential benefit from it, and challenges implementation. Background Data. Simulation is an increasingly important part training. VR developing platform for using teach technical skills, behavioral entire procedures trainees practicing surgeons worldwide. Questions exist regarding science behind technology most effective usage simulation. A...
The role of percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) or laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) in the management patients with acute cholecystitis presenting beyond 72 hours from onset symptoms is unclear and undefined. aim this study was to examine compare outcomes PC LC these patients, who failed 24 initial nonoperative management.A retrospective chart review between January 1999 October 2010 revealed 261 calculus management. Twenty-three (8.8%) underwent were compared a similar 1:1 matched cohort LC,...
In contrast to adult colonic intussusception in which malignancy is the dominant cause, small bowel intussusceptions are mostly benign. Although surgery accepted standard treatment, its necessity identified by CT scan unknown. Twenty-three patients from 2005 2008 (16 males; median age, 44 years) with acute abdominal pain and CT-proven were studied. Factors associated for determined. Among 11 who managed operatively, was deemed unnecessary two based on negative explorations. Follow up 10 of...
Tailgut cysts, also known as retrorectal hamartomas, are very rare neoplasms located in the presacral/retrorectal space that originate from embryonic hindgut. Although a majority of lesions this location benign, 30% reported cases literature were found to be malignant. This report describes case presacral mass on CT 37-year-old woman who initially presented with worsening abdominal pain and history ovarian cyst rupture. patient’s clinical picture was complicated by an enlarging cyst. The...