Training Opportunities
Upcoming Presentations:
Dr. Kuppersmith will be faculty at the World Robotic Symposium in Orlando, Florida in April 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith will be a Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery on April 15, 2010
Dr. Kuppersmith will be guest faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Robotic Head and Neck Surgery Course, June 3-4, 2010.
Dr. Kuppersmith will be the Distiguished Guest Faculty for the 8th Annual Porubsky Symposium at the Medical College of Georgia, June 18-19, 2010.
Recent Presentations:
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:
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.
Information about surgical observation for interested surgeons will be available here soon.