This Week on ORLive (October 19, 2009): View Minimally Invasive Weight-Loss Surgery Options, Watch a Gastric Sleeve Weight-Loss Surgery Live and Interact With the OR via Twitter, View the Latest Virtual Brain Tumor Board, and Preview a Non-Surgical Appro
by admin on Nov.06, 2009, under Uncategorized
Market Wire, October, 2009
ORLive, the world’s leading medical and
surgical broadcasting company will broadcast a live review of minimally
invasive weight-loss surgery options from Thomas Jefferson University
Hospitals, broadcast a live gastric sleeve surgery from Shawnee Mission
Medical Center accompanied by a live Twitter feed, present the latest
installment of the virtual brain tumor board, and preview an upcoming
broadcast featuring the Gamma Knife Perfexion(TM) treatment of
metastatic brain tumors :
LIVE INTERACTIVE
VIDEO: Minimally Invasive Weight-Loss Surgery — What You Should Know
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, at 4:30 EDT — Join nationally recognized
bariatric surgeons David Tichansky, MD, FACS and Bernadette Profeta, MD, FACS from
the Jefferson Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Program as they review and
demonstrate state-of-the-art, fully laparoscopic procedures for weight-loss
that are safe and effective.
Viewers will be able to interact and ask questions via the ORLive website.
Learn more about this live video broadcast on ORLive.com
LIVE SURGERY VIDEO and TWITTER: Minimally
Invasive Gastric Sleeve Weight Loss Surgery
Thursday, October 22, 2009, at 7:00 EDT — Stanley Hoehn, MD, FACS , vertical sleeve gastrectomy will perform
a gastric sleeve surgery live from Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC).
Christopher Kowalski, MD, FACS ,
will moderate the session; answering questions live from the audience.
During the broadcast, physicians will also host a live chat via Twitter as
another way for viewers to submit their questions.
Viewers will be able to interact and ask questions via the ORLive website,
or by following the broadcast on the ORLive twitter account using the
hashtag #SMMC. Learn more about this broadcast on ORLive.com, or at
http://twitter.com/ORLive .
PREVIEW VIDEO: Gamma Knife Perfexion(TM)
Treatment of Metastatic Brain Tumors
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at 5:00 PM EDT — Stephen Tatter, M.D., Ph.D. ,
neurosurgeon, and Michael Chan, M.D. , radiation
oncologist, co-directors of the Gamma Knife Program at the Comprehensive
Cancer Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, will use
the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion(TM), the most advanced stereotactic
radiosurgery available, to treat a metastatic brain tumor.
This broadcast cast will premiere on ORLive.com on October 27 at 5 PM EDT.
NEW VIRTUAL BRAIN TUMOR
BOARD VIDEO: T12 Lesion, 39-year-old Male (ST)
This 39 YO male patient presented with back pain and leg weakness.
Imaging studies were done and MRI revealed a lesion at T12. This was
fairly extensively involved involving all areas of the bone. He had a CT
guided biopsy done three times, which was negative
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