Reviewers

Mehran Anvari, MB BS, PhD, FRCSC, FACS

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton - McMaster University,
Hamilton, CANADA

Associate Editor on WebSurg.com

Prof. Mehran Anvari received a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom in 1983 and a PhD from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1996.

In 1999, Prof. Mehran Anvari spearheaded the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS), a McMaster University Centre located at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. CMAS is a centre that develops telemedicine technologies to help Canadian physicians in isolated communities gain better access to the latest medical knowledge, techniques and specialists. Prof. Anvari is currently a professor in the department of surgery at McMaster and since 1999, is also the Director of the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery.

In 2003, Prof. Anvari, at St. Joseph's Healthcare successfully performed the world's first hospital-to-hospital telerobotics-assisted surgery on a patient in North Bay, Ontario, nearly 400 kilometres away from Hamilton.

Prof. M Anvari has a fellowship in General Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is also a member of the Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES).

Prof. M Anvari has no financial affiliations that would affect the content of his presentations nor will he be discussing any US FDA non-approved uses for pharmaceutical or medical devices products.

Erik Dutson, MD

UCLA Department of Surgery, Los Angeles,
UNITED STATES

Dr. Dutson was trained at Eastern Virgina Medical School. He completed five years of general surgical training. He is a Board certified general surgeon with one year of experience in private practice. He is currently undertaking a two-year fellowship in advanced minimally invasive surgery and robotics. Additionally, he is an Associate Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has an active interest in web-based surgical education and works with the editorial staff at WebSurg.

Dr. Dutson has no financial affiliations that would affect the presentation of content.

Abe Fingerhut, MD

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal, Poissy
FRANCE

Lael Forbes, MD

Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo,
UNITED STATES

Dr. Lael Forbes got her Doctor of Medicine degree at Albert Einstein Medical School, Bronx, New York in 1994.

Dr. Forbes has a mini-fellowship in minimally invasive bariatric surgery at Montefiore Institute for MIS, Bronx, New York. She also worked as a fellow in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery at the European Institute of TeleSurgery (EITS)/IRCAD, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, France.
She did both her Internship and Residency in General Surgery in St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York City, New York.

From February 2002 to May 2004, she was an instructor in the Guthrie Clinic Residency Program, Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA. She is currently Assistant Professor in the University of Buffalo (SUNY) Residency Program and also Assistant Director at Kalieda Health Comprehensive Weight Loss Center.

She is a member of the American Medical Association, American Society of Bariatric Surgeons, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, and Associate Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She is also a member of Doctors without Borders.

Dr. L Forbes has no financial affiliations that would affect the content of her presentations nor will she be discussing any US FDA non-approved uses for pharmaceutical or medical devices products.

Faek Jamali, MD

American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut,
LEBANON

Dr. Jamali was an active surgeon on the staff of Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Rush Medical College, and Chief, Section of Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and has also completed two fellowships, one in Surgical Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh and one in Laparoscopic Surgery at the European Institute of TeleSurgery. He has an active interest in the oncologic applications of laparoscopy both in basic science and the clinical arena and has been developing a program of laparoscopic colorectal as well as hepatobiliary surgery at Cook County Hospital.

Dr. Jamali has no financial affiliations that would affect the presentation of content.

Gregory Peachey, MD

McMaster University, Continuing Health Sciences Education
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Gregory Peachey is currently Associate Clinical Professor, Dept. of Anesthesia, Director of Anesthesia Residency Training, and Assistant Dean at McMaster University, Continuing Health Sciences Education Program, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Peachey got his Doctor of Medicine degree at Memorial University, Newfoundland in 1986. In 1991, he got his General Practice Licence at Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a fellow and member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is also a member of the Canadian Medical Association, Medical Council of Canada, Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society.

He will not be discussing any US FDA non-approved uses for pharmaceutical or medical device products.

Michelle K. Smith, MD

Alpha Surgical Specialists, London, KY,
UNITED STATES