Training activities

Expert trainer and lector in the “ St John” Laparoscopic Training Center– leaded by Professor Corneliu Dragomirescu: Since 1995, the experience over 16 years of practice counts: 7 courses per year, 12 to 20 participants per course, more than 1200 trainees/ participants. This record is recognized as the largest activity of a laparoscopic training center in Romania.

Most of the courses were including training activities on live pigs. The theoretical lectures and live operations transmissions from different ORs are organized in dedicated Conference Rooms; the animal laboratory is set up in the Faculty of Veterinary School.

Between 1995 and 2000, the above mentioned Laparoscopic Training Center was the Reference Training Center of Olympus in Romania.

Between 2001 up to now (2011), the Laparoscopic Training Center has been the Reference Training Center of Karl Storz in Romania.

The activity of the Laparoscopic Training Center of has been increased in 2009, since the Center ‘s activity was endorsed by the Romanian Association of Endoscopic Surgery (RAES) . The RAES Laparoscopic Training Center  has more than 50 local and international experts, an yearly increasing number of participants - from Romania and countries around – and a wide range of minimally access training activities (including NOTES, bariatric surgery, gynecological procedures, urology etc)

Course Director or Co-Director of Basic and Advanced Laparoscopic Techniques Training Courses organized in:

·         Laparoscopic Training Center of St. John Hospital, Bucharest - since 2005, in 38 courses (Colorectal, GERD and Hiatal Hernia, Inguinal Hernia Repair, Bariatric Procedures, Endocrine Surgery)

Additional Laparoscopic Training Activities:

·         Bucharest,CMR, Minimal Invasive Surgery for GERD, March, 2000

·         Pius Branzeu Training Center, Timisoara, Romania (3 courses): Laparoscopic Repair of Hiatal Hernia(1999), Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery (2006), Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery (2003, 2007- conferences and live demonstration of bariatric procedures)

·         Bucharest, during the IASGO Romanian Chapter: Gastric Sleeve for the Treatment of Morbid Obesity (April, 2007) conference and live demonstration of the bariatric procedure.

·         Bucharest, during the ISSO Course , April 2008, Laparoscopic Total Mesorectal Excision - conference and live demonstration of the  procedure

·         Constanta, Romania  - during the National Congress of The Romanian Society of Surgeons, – June, 2008, Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery (100 participants)

·         Baile Felix, , Oradea, Romania The PreCongres Course on Laparoscopic Surgery of Obesity, during the National Congress of The Romanian Society of Surgeons, – May, 2006, Surgery of Obesity

·         Timisoara, Romania during the Congress of the Romanian Association for Endoscopic Surgery-The pre-congress courses of Obesity Surgery and of Hiatal Hernia Repair (October, 2006)

·         Cluj- Napoca, Romania: Gastric Sleeve and Obesity - conference and live operative demonstration (May, 2007), Laparoscopic Surgery of Obesity , conference and live demonstration of bariatric procedures (July, 2007, October, 2007), NOTES Workshop (May, 2008)

·         Bucharest, Romania - Bariatric Surgery Symposium (November 2007)

·         Bucharest, Romania – Professor of the First Course of the International School of Surgical Oncology, April, 7-12th 2008

·         Targu Mures, Romania, Bariatric Surgery Symposium (November 2008) Live demonstration and lectures (Covidien)

·         Oradea, Romania – Laparoscopic Surgery Workshop (January,2009) Live demonstration and lectures (Covidien)

·         Constanta Romania, Laparoscopic partial or total hysterectomies (august,2009) Live demonstration and lectures (STORZ)

·         Sinaia, Romania, World Congress of SMIT, Co-director of the NOTES Workshop, October, 7^th,2009

·         Co- Director on the Course on Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery during The 5^th Congress of the Romanian Association for Endoscopic Surgery, November, 11-14th,2009,Rin Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania  

·      Co- Director  – Course on Single Port Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy during  the Interventional Endoscopy and Endoscopic Surgery Workshop “ Paving The Way to NOTES” 26 March 2011, Craiova, Romania