Hi
I'm interested in the lecture below, but am unable to attend. Will there be
an audio/written transcript of the lecture available afterwards?
Many thanks
Mudit Matanhelia
On Dec 6 2006, Hughes, Jane wrote:
> You are all welcome to attend the final lecture in the How Do You Look?
> series.
>
>
>Professor Sir Ara Darzi, Imperial College London will speak on
>
>Cybersurgery: robots in the operating theatre
>
>Thursday 14 December 2006, 7pm
>Lecture Theatre 2, The Royal College of Surgeons of England
>
> Tickets cost £8/5 concessions and include a glass of wine and a visit to
> the Hunterian Museum, to book call 020 7869 6560 or email
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> At no other time in history has such a rapid transition to the future
> occurred. What had been a century of evolution from the Industrial Age to
> the Information Age has, over the past decade, become a revolution.
> Laparoscopic or minimal access surgery, which provided the "wake-up call
> to the information age" as the leading edge technology, has become the
> accepted standard of medical practice; now even more advanced
> technologies promise further improvements in the practice of medicine. It
> is interesting, but obvious, that the changes that led to the birth of
> surgery were contingent on the discoveries that ushered in the Industrial
> Age. This is being replaced by the Information Age, and conventional
> surgery is being replaced by a host of minimally invasive therapies and
> noninvasive procedures. Because we are currently in the middle of this
> transition, it is unclear now how the next generation of medicine and
> surgery will appear. Trends in the technologies are toward low-power,
> miniaturized, low-cost yet highly "intelligent" systems that eventually
> will transform surgery from minimally invasive into noninvasive
> procedures whose development will depend on the emerging Information Age
> technologies. Laparoscopic surgery is not an end-point; rather, it is a
> transitional phase between the radical approach of "open" surgery and the
> emerging forms of noninvasive image-guided procedures (Interventional
> MR). Now is the time that all of these separate elements that the unit is
> currently active involved in such as laparoscopic surgery, telepresence,
> virtual reality, digital imaging, and networking are coming together.
> This lecture will attempt to highlight some of these advances and
> potentials for the future.
>
> For more information on the How Do You Look? exhibition see
> www.howdoyoulook.co.uk . The exhibition closes at 5pm on 21st December
> 2006.
>
>
> Jane Hughes Audience Development Officer Hunterian Museum at The Royal
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