Simulation in Medical Education (SiME) Seminar Series
DATE & TIME: June 26, 2009 @ 12 noon, Light lunch will be served.
LOCATION: Goodman Simulation Center, Room H3552
SPEAKER: Dmitry Oleynikov, MD, FACS
AFFILIATION: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER
TITLE: ROBOTS FOR NOTES
DETAILS: This talk will be on the use of robotic technology to enable doctors to perform Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery, Current Endoscopic technology is very limited and does not allow the degree of freedom and dexterity to perform many procedures. Robotic technology holds a promise of improving the surgeons ability.
DR. OLEYNIKOV is board certified in General Surgery and is an Associate Professor and Director The Center for Advanced Surgical Technology and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He also holds a joint appointment as the Adjunct Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska. Dr Oleynikov completed his surgical residency at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2000. Upon completing his residency, Dr. Oleynikov served as Acting Instructor and Senior Fellow at the Center for Videoendoscopic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University Of Washington School Of Medicine in Seattle, WA. Since his arrival at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Dr. Oleynikov has been active in developing robotic and Minimally invasive surgery. He holds 11 filed or pending patents and is the Director of a University wide Center for Advanced Surgical Technology with funding of over 5 million dollars from NIH, Department of Defense, NSF, and State Grants. His research interests include development of novel robotic and surgical devices. He serves on multiple national societies and has published over 80 peer reviewed scientific papers and has presented over 100 abstracts at both local and national meetings. He is also the director of the University Of Nebraska Swallowing Center. He has a busy esophageal and general surgery practice in Omaha where he performs robotically assisted esophagectomy, Heller myotomy and Nissen fundoplication, as well as laparoscopic colectomy, and gastrectomy.
