Robotic laparoscopic surgery

Charles-Henry Rochat - Robotically assisted laparoscopic surgery
2006 ACTIVITY REPORT
ROBOTIC LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY
Charles-Henry Rochat, MD
Associate Professor
Chief surgeon for Urology at the Multidisciplinary Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Center in
Geneva (www.beaulieu.ch)
Secretary General of the European Group of Robotic Surgery (www.egru.ch)
Board Member of the French-speaking Association of Robotic Surgery "Association
francophone de chirurgie robotisée"
President of the « Société Médicale de Beaulieu » (www.smb-cgb.ch)
Board Member of the "groupe genevois d’étude du cancer de la prostate"
President of the 2005 Robotic Urology Symposium
(http://www.gfmer.ch/Medical_education_En/pdf/Robotic_urology_symposium.pdf)
Conferences and presentations
° 3 February: « Transperitoneal robotic prostatectomy », Robotic Surgery Symposium, Zürich
° 15-18 February: « Robotic surgery in urology », Training Course in Oncologic
Laparoscopy, Oncologic Hospital, St Petersbourg
° 27 April: « Robotic in Urology », conference, Uni Dufour, Geneva
° 8 June: « Laparoscopy in the treatment of localized prostate cancer » 2nd Urology Congress
in the French-speaking part of Switzerland for nurses and OT nurses, Geneva
° 8 September: « Le robot da Vinci, miroir aux alouettes ou pierre philosophale » Swiss
Society of Urology, Geneva
° 9 September: « Status Report of European Data Base » ERUS 06, Stockholm
° 13 November: « From Fistula Repairs to Robotic Surgery, an Amazing Journey » Roswel
Park Cancer Institute Buffalo
Chair
7 September: “Mini-invasive surgery” Swiss Society of Urology Congress, Geneva
Videos
8 September: « Robotic Radical Prostatectomy: development in 2006 » Swiss Society of
Urology, Geneva
Publications
 Rochat CH. Prostatectomie radicale robot assistée (Da Vinci ®) : abord transpéritonal.
J Urol Urogynäkol. 2006 (CH); 8(4):17-21
 Rochat CH. Der transperitoneale Zugang bei der roboterassistierten radikalen
Prostatektomie (Da Vinci® - system). J Urol Urogynäkol. 2006; 13(4):17-21
Ongoing activities
° Awaiting the publication of the chapter « Comparison of Standard Laparoscopic and
Robotic Urology Surgery », co-author, Editor Vipul Patel.
° Drafting of the chapter « Transperitoneal access to robotic prostatectomy », Editors: Hubert
John and Peter Wiklund.
° Coordination, with T. Piechaud, Bordeaux, of the European Multicentric Study on the
results of robotic radical prostatectomy (European Multicenter dVP Study (EmdS).