Best Paper and Best Reviewer 2020 for Laparoscopic, Endoscopic and Robotic Surgery

Best Practices for Robotic Surgery Programs

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Robotic surgical programs are increasing in number. Efficient methods by which to monitor and evaluate robotic surgery teams are needed. METHODS Best practices for an academic university medical center were created and instituted in 2009 and continue to the present. These practices have led to programmatic development that has resulted in a process that effectively m...

Best practices for robotic surgery training and credentialing.

PURPOSE With the rapid and widespread adoption of robotics in surgery, the minimally invasive surgical landscape has changed markedly within the last half decade. This change has had a significant impact on patients, surgeons and surgical trainees. This is no more apparent than in the field of urology. As with the advent of any new surgical technology, it is imperative that we develop comprehen...

Ten Best Readings Relating to Robotic-Assisted Surgery

Park BJ, Melfi F, Mussi A, et al. Robotic lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): longterm oncologic results. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012;143(2):383-389. A large series of patients with early-stage, non–small-cell lung cancer undergoing robotic-assisted lobectomy (RAL) was reviewed to assess long-term oncological efficacy. The authors determined that RAL is associated with low rate...

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SOM Best Paper Award

It is a great pleasure to announce that the 2009Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Best Paper Award goes to Nicole DeHoratius, Adam J. Mersereau, and Linus Schrage for “Retail Inventory Management When Records Are Inaccurate” (2008). This annual award is given to one paper, published in one of the prior three volumes of M&SOM. Nominees were first appraised byM&SOM associate editors t...