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Dr. John R. Valvo, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. John R. Valvo, M.D., F.A.C.S. is currently the Chief of Urology and Director of Robotics at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, New York. Following a 20 year career in performing open surgery Dr. Valvo founded the robotic program at Rochester General Hospital in early 2004, which currently ranks in the top 4% of robotic surgeries in the United States, having over 30 robotic surgeons and over 3,000 robotic surgeries performed. In addition to being an exemplary mentor to many attending physicians and residents, authoring more than 100 scientific articles and starting many robotic programs in the northeast, Dr. Valvo's focus on robotic surgery credentialing has led to a notable published paper on policy guidelines for robotic surgery. This publication has become a template for many upstart robotic surgery programs throughout the country. He has a keen interest and unique talent in performing complex urologic surgery for cancers of the genitourinary tract through the surgical platform. Dr. Valvo earned his Bachelor of Science at Marietta College and his M.D. from SUNY Buffalo. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and American Urological association and is board certified by the American Board of Urology. He is also a member of the Monroe County Medical Society, Minimally Invasive Robotic Association, and Society for Lap Endoscopic Surgeons.
Dr. Douglas Boyd, MD
Dr. Douglas Boyd is Head of Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida. He is board certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in general and cardiothoracic surgery. In 1999, Dr. Boyd completed the world’s first closed-chest, beating-heart coronary artery bypass surgery with the use of the ZEUS Robotic Surgical System, and is recognized throughout the worldwide medical community for his pioneering work in cardiothoracic surgery and the use of robotic surgical systems. As principal investigator in numerous clinical research trials, Dr. Boyd’s research has focused on invasive robotic surgery, image guided minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery, minimally beating heart surgery, and improving patient safety in cardiac surgery. He has been an invited lecturer at regional, national and international symposia and conferences on his specialty interests. Dr. Boyd has authored or co-authored book chapters in medical textbooks on robotic cardiac bypass surgery and computer-assisted interventions among many other heart-related topics and has published numerous abstracts on his specialty interests.
Dr. Boyd has received numerous fellowships, scholarships and awards including a fellowship in Medical Education from the University of Ottawa and a fellowship in Transplantation/Mechanical Assist Devices from the Ottawa Heart Institute, where he was a Clinical Scholar. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada awarded him a fellowship in surgery and Washington University granted him a mini-fellowship in lung transplantation. He is named in the 2003 edition of Florida’s Top Doctors. In 2004, Good Housekeeping Magazine named Cleveland Clinic Florida’s Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery as the “Top Cardiovascular Center in the Nation.” In 2004, Castle-Connelly named him as one of America’s Top Doctors in Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Dr. Bill Cohn, MD
Dr. Cohn has been awarded over 40 patents for his medical devices which help surgeons operate on a beating heart, a task thought to be impossible for many years. A native Houstonian, he graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1986 and was recruited to Boston’s Beth-Israel Hospital where he focused on minimally invasive surgery. Dr. Cohn creates procedures and devices to minimize the invasiveness of heart surgery and uses new techniques that avoid the employment of the heart-lung machine, thereby allowing the heart to continue beating during surgery and reducing the risk to the patient. In 2000, he was named Distinguished Inventor of the Year by the Intellectual Property Owners’ Association, and he later appeared on the ABC television series Miracle Workers. In Spring of 2004, Dr. Cohn returned to Houston to join the renowned Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital as well as the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine. Today he continues his clinical research activity at the Texas Heart Institute and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, where he is serving as Director of Minimally Invasive Surgical Technology and Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Research Laboratories.
Dr. Bob Kiaii, MD
Dr. Kiaii is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Western Ontario. He is a cardiac surgeon and Director of the Minimally Invasive Robotic Cardiac Surgery Program in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the London Health Sciences Centre University Hospital. He is also one of the founding members of Canadian Surgical Advanced Technology and Robotics (CSTAR) of the Lawson Health Research Institute. Dr. Kiaii is one of the most experienced minimally invasive robotic cardiac surgeons nationally and internationally, and received a Canadian Foundation for Innovation New Opportunities Fund Grant, which allowed him to do the research for performing simultaneous integrated coronary artery revascularization. Dr. Kiaii has performed ground-breaking robotic-assisted cardiac procedures including the first North American simultaneous integrated coronary artery revascularization procedure on September 1, 2004. Since then, he has had the most experience and has performed the largest series of simultaneous integrated coronary artery revascularizations in the world.
Dr. Garth H. Ballantyne, MD
Dr. Ballantyne is one of the nation's leading laparoscopic surgeons. In 1994 he was appointed the founding director of the Center for Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he also served as chief of the Division of Laparoscopic Surgery. In 1997, Dr. Ballantyne was recruited to Hackensack University Medical Center where he was appointed Professor or Surgery and Director of Minimally Invasive and Tele-robotic Surgery. Before joining St. Luke's-'Roosevelt, Dr. Ballantyne spent 10 years on the faculty of the Yale University Medical School, where he established a reputation as a pioneer in the field of laparoscopy, introducing new techniques into surgical practice. Dr. Ballantyne has one of the largest laparoscopic colorectal practices in the world.
Dr. Ballantyne is co-editor of Laparoscopic Surgery the major reference work for physicians on the subject, and he has written some 40 papers and book chapters on laparoscopy. He has lectured on minimally invasive surgery to physicians around the world, conducted courses, and traveled widely to guide other surgeons in performing laparoscopic surgical procedures. His next book, Atlas of Laparoscopic Surgery, is currently in press. Dr. Ballantyne earned his bachelor's degree at Harvard University (Magna Cum Laude in Biology) and his M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Following his general surgical residency at St. Luke's Hospital in Cleveland, he was a clinical fellow in colon and rectal surgery at the Mayo Clinic.
An active researcher, Dr. Ballantyne has authored more than 200 scientific articles. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. He is a member of numerous scientific and medical societies, including the Society of University Surgeons, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopists; and the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons.
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