Department of Surgery Grand Rounds
When
Where
Arizona Health Sciences Center, Room 5403
1501 N. Campbell Ave. Tucson, AZ 85724
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Presenter Details
“The History of Minimally Invasive Surgery”
Nathaniel Soper, MD, FACS, MAMSE
Professor and Chairman, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
Surgical Director of Perioperative Operations, Banner University Medical center - Phoenix
Chair, Department of Surgery
Nathaniel Soper, MD, leads the Department of Surgery as The Jean and Harlan Stone Endowed Chair of Surgery. His career is significant for trailblazing the field of minimally invasive surgery, foregut surgery and surgical education. As one of the first academic surgeons performing laparoscopic surgery both nationally and internationally, he now continues to be involved in the early clinical experience with Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery.
Soper is dedicated to innovation and educations with more than 200 manuscripts, 17 edited books and 100 edited chapters published to his credit. He earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa School of Medicine, then competed General Surgery residency with a year of laboratory investigation at the University of Utah Hospitals in Salt Lake City, UT. He also spent two years as a National Institutes of Health funded fellow at the Digestive Disease Center at the May Clinic in Rochester, MN. Previously, Dr. Soper served as Program Director for the General Surgery Residency and then for 12 years as Chair of the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University and Surgeon-in-Chief at Northwestern memorial Hospital.
Learning Objectives
- Incorporate into practice intraoperative teaching and feedback to improve operative performance.
- Incorporate cutting-edge surgical techniques and patient management strategies.
- Incorporate into practice results from recent randomized-controlled trials/studies.
- Communicate operative knowledge effectively to peers.
About
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement(s): All Faculty, CME Planning Committee Members and the CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with commercial interests that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.