Training Opportunities
Upcoming Presentations:
Dr. Kuppersmith will be speaking at the Severence (Yonsei) da Vinci Live 2010 Symposium in Seoul, South Korea on July 16, 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith will be presenting a Miniseminar titled "Robotic Thyroidectomy: Why, How, When?" with Drs. Holsinger, Terris, and Wright at the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting in Boston on September 27, 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith and Dr. Holsinger will be teaching an Instruction Course (#2830-1) on "Robotic Thyroid Surgery" at the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting in Boston on September 27, 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith will be lecturing at the "Best of ORL 2010" at the American Hospital of Paris, France in October 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith will be giving the annual John Young Lecture at the University of Minnesota Department of Otolaryngology and a guest speaker at the Minnesota Academy of Otolarygology in January 2011.
Dr. Kuppersmith will be the Visiting Professor at the University of Cincinnati Department of Otolaryngology in January 2011.
Dr. Kuppersmith will be the guest speaker at the Annual Conference of the ENT-HNS Specialists Society of Istanbul in Istanbul, Turkey in April 2011.
Recent Presentations:
Dr. Kuppersmith was the Distiguished Visiting Professor for the 8th Annual Porubsky Symposium at the Medical College of Georgia, June 18-19, 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith was a guest faculty member at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Robotic Head and Neck Surgery Course, June 3-4, 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith was the Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery on April 15, 2010 and gave a Grand Rounds presentation on Robotic Thyroid Surgery.
Dr. Kuppersmith led a "da Vinci Thyroidectomy Training Program for Surgeons" in College Station and at the Methodist Intitute for Technology, Innovation & Education in Houston in April 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith lectured about "Training Issues in Robotic Thyroid Surgery" on a panel with Drs. Chung and Holsinger at the World Robotic Symposium in Orlando, Florida in April 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith was the Visiting Professor and spoke at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York on March 4, 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith spoke at the Pan American Robotic Oncology Symposium at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas on February 26-27, 2010 and participated as faculty in an Advanced Robotic Thyroidectomy Training Course.
Dr. Kuppersmith spoke on a panel about Robotic Surgery at the Combined Section Meeting of The Triological Society in Orlando, Florida on February 4-7.
Dr. Kuppersmith was a guest on Brazos Valley Health on KEOS 89.1 FM, January 14th from 6-7 pm, to discuss "Issues of Thyroid Health."
Dr. Kuppersmith was a guest speaker at the Long Island Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery meeting in New York on December 7, 2009.
Dr. Kuppersmith attended the Clinical Robotic Surgery Association Meeting in Chicago from October 9-10, 2009 and presented during a session on robotic thyroid surgery.
Dr. Kuppersmith attended the American Thyroid Association Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, September 23-27, 2009 and presented a poster on the feasibility robotic thyroid surgery in North American Patients.
Dr. Kuppersmith attended the World Congress on Thyroid Cancer in Toronto, Canada from August 6-10, 2009. He was on a panel moderated by Dr. David Terris on "Endoscopic and Robotic Thyroid Surgery - Emerging Techniques" and lectured about Robotic Thyroid Surgery.
Recent Publications:
Holsinger F.C., Terris D.J., Kuppersmith R.B. Robotic Thyroidectomy: Operative Technique Using a Transaxillary Approach without CO2 Insufflation. Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America. 2010: 43:381-388.
Orloff LA, Kuppersmith RB. American Thyroid Association's Central Neck Dissection Terminology and Classification for Thyroid Cancer Consensus Statement. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 2010: 142(1): 4-5.
Kuppersmith RB. Robotic Thyroid Surgery - Initial Impressions. ENT & Audiology News. November-December 2009.
Kuppersmith RB, Salem A, Holsinger FC. Advanced approaches for thyroid surgery. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 2009: 141(3): 340-342.
For information about surgical case observation and upcoming training programs for interested surgeons, email: info@roboticthyroid.com.