Sharona Ross
University of Central Florida, USA
Biography
Sharona Ross, MD FACS served in the Israel Defense Forces. She moved to the US to attain her undergraduate degree and received her Medical Degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine. After General Surgery residency training at the University of South Florida, she completed two Fellowships, one in Advanced GI Minimally Invasive Foregut & HPB Surgery and the other in Gastroenterology and Endoscopy. She is a Professor of Surgery at the College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, USA. She is also the Director of the Advanced GI Foregut and HPB Surgery Fellowship at Florida Hospital Tampa, USA. As the Director of MIS and Surgical Endoscopy at Florida Hospital Tampa, she continues to develop new and innovative techniques to promote the safety and application of minimally invasive laparo-endoscopic single site (LESS) surgery and robotic surgery. She is one of the few surgeons to offer patients robotic complex abdominal operations for malignancies of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, biliary system, gallbladder, liver and small bowel. She has numerous peer reviewed publications and book chapters to her credit. She is also the Founder and Chair of the International Women in Surgery Career Symposium.
Abstract
Abstract : Development of proficiency with robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy