HealthExec September 26, 2019
General surgery in robotics is taking off, and its advantages are helping doctors perform more procedures and reduce risks, according to a profile in The New Yorker.
Pier Giulianotti, MD, chief of general, minimally invasive and robotic surgery at University of Illinois Health, is known as a leader in the surgical robotics movement, leveraging robotic arms for use in surgery soon after seeing a demonstration of the technology in 1999.
Using joysticks and foot pedals to control the technology, Giulianotti and his team...