Dr Fouad Khoury: President of the first robotic surgery congress in Lebanon and hosting Professor Alexandre Mottrie, CEO of ORSI academy, the largest robotic surgery training center in the world and President of the EAU Robotic Urology Section.
The Congress was held on the first of March 2016 at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center (SGHUMC) in Beirut and featured multiple lectures on the use of robotic surgery in medicine.
A convention between SGHUMC and OLV hospital in Belgium was signed in order to facilitate patient transfer from Lebanon to undergo Robotic surgery procedures in a referral center under the supervision and care of Dr. Fouad Khoury who was appointed Director of the Robotic Surgery program.
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The programme launched at that congress continues in practice. Dr. Fouad El Khoury performs and supervises minimally invasive procedures in Lebanon and refers selected complex cases abroad through the partnership described above. You can read more about the technique and the conditions it is used for on our robotic surgery page, or see a documented case of a complex robotic assisted partial nephrectomy.