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The webinar will feature a presentation, “Creating Robotic Technology for Ultra-minimally Invasive Surgery,” by Pierre Dupont, Ph.D, Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering and staff scientist in Cardiovascular Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Dupont researches technologies that enable minimally invasive interventions for procedures that are currently performed as open surgery. Minimally invasive surgical techniques generally reduce the collateral trauma and risks of surgical interventions, and facilitate earlier intervention in the disease process.
In this presentation, Dr. Dupont, who is also a visiting Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, will address the challenges and opportunities of medical device development in an academic research environment. Recent cutting-edge innovations will be explored as he describes his research in image-guided robotics, which includes the creation of:
• new robot technology
• concentric tube robots
• robotic application to beating-heart intracardiac surgery
Dr. Dupont also will describe a new research direction to create small tetherless robots that are powered, imaged and controlled by an MRI scanner.
Dupont’s research, which draws upon many branches of engineering, focuses on the design and control of novel medical robots and instruments; modeling tool-tissue interaction; the development of multi-probe or multi-modal imaging techniques for surgical guidance; and the teleoperation or automation of instrument motion.
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