Biomedical Engineering in Gastrointestinal Surgery

Dr Schneider is a biomedical engineer with 16 years’ experience in research and development. He received his master´s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Technische Universität München. He was awarded the European Radiology ESGAR Award in 2009, and the Boston-Scientific-Innovationspreis award in 2010. He has contributed to over 50 articles, has a H index of 30 and is a frequent conference presenter. Both he and Dr Feussner are members of several international scientific associations like CARS and SMIT. Professor Feussner is a senior consultant surgeon who has been doing minimally invasive surgery for 30 years. He is a pioneer in laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery which he introduced into clinical practice in 1989. In 1999, Professor Feussner established the Institute for Minimally Invasive Interdisciplinary Therapeutic Interventions (MITI). He is the Secretary General of the Section for Computer and Telematic Assisted Surgery (CTAC) of the German Surgical Society since 2001 and of the German Society for Dysphagia (DGD). He is an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Surgeons and other international surgical societies. He has authored more than 300 peer reviewed articles and holds 9 international patents.

1. Surgery and biomedical engineering2. Anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal tract: specific considerations3. Principles of gastrointestinal surgery4. Preconditions of successful (gastrointestinal) surgery5. Diagnostic procedures6. Classical (open) surgery7. Operative (surgical) laparoscopy8. Interventional flexible endoscopy9. Combined laparoscopic-endoscopic procedures and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES)10. Mechatronic support systems and robots11. Future OR environment for visceral intervention12. Tracking and Navigation Systems13. Hospital Information Systems14. Training and simulation