2025 STS Workshop on Robotic Thoracic Surgery

Foundations Group Lectures

• 8:30 – 8:50 a.m.: Principles of Port Placement and Energy 
                               Natalie Lui, MD, Stanford University
• 8:50 – 9:10 a.m.: Lobectomy – Fissure Dissection 
                              John F. Lazar, MD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
• 9:10 – 9:30 a.m.: Lobectomy – Fissureless (Anterior-Posterior, Superior, Inferior Approaches)             
                              Jennifer Wilson, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• 9:30 – 9:50 a.m.: Break / Visit Exhibits
• 9:50 – 10:10 a.m.: Typical Segment  
                                Jason M. Long, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina
• 10:10 – 10:30 a.m.: Robotic Navigational Bronchoscopy / SABR 
                                  Andrew Brownlee, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• 10:30 – 10:50 a.m.: 3D Imaging and Preoperative Planning for Segmentation 
                                  Elliott L. Servais, MD, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
• 10:50 – 11:30 a.m.: Panel Discussion 

Advanced Lectures - Hotel

• 12:45 – 1:05 p.m.: Typical Segment 
                                Jason Long, MD, MPH
• 1:05 – 1:25 p.m.: Atypical Segment – 3D Imaging 
                              Nathaniel R. Evans III, MD, Thomas Jefferson University
• 1:25 – 1:45 p.m.: Bronchial Sleeve 
                              Lana Y. Schumacher, MD, Tufts Medical Center
• 1:45 – 2:05 p.m.: Sleeve – Double Sleeve 
                              Abbas Abbas, MD, Brown University  
• 2:05 – 2:25 p.m.: Break / Visit Exhibits
• 2:25 – 2:45 p.m.: Pneumonectomy 
                               Sudish Murthy, MD, Cleveland Clinic
• 2:45 – 3:05 p.m.: Obtaining Vascular Control in Complicated Cases 
                               Michael Zervos, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center
• 3:05 – 3:25 p.m.: Nuances in Localization Techniques 
                               Nicholas Baker, MD, WVU Medicine
• 3:25 – 4:00 p.m.: Panel Discussion 

Plenary Lectures

• 4:30 - 5 p.m.: How I Do It: First Rib
                          Bryan Burt, MD, UCLA
  • 5 - 5:30 p.m.: Panel Discussion
                           All faculty

Foundations Group Lectures - at Hotel

• 8:30 – 8:50 a.m.: Anterior/Posterior Mediastinum (Non-Thymomas) 
                               Alicia Bonanno, MD, Emory University
• 8:50 – 9:10 a.m.: Thymectomy 
                              Jacob Klapper, MD, Duke University Medical Center
• 9:10 – 9:30 a.m.: Diaphragm Plication and Hernias 
                              Samuel S. Kim, MD, Northwestern University  
• 9:30 – 9:50 a.m.: How to Teach Robotics as a New User 
                               Svetlana Kotova, MD, OHSU / PeaceHealth
• 9:50 – 10:10 a.m.: Break / Visit Exhibits
• 10:10 – 10:30 a.m.: Intra-Operative Complications 
                                 Jason Long, MD
• 10:30 – 10:50 a.m.: Being Prepared: Disaster Drills/Simulation 
                                  Feiran Lou, MD, UMass Memorial Health Care
• 10:50 – 11:10 a a.m.: Building a Program/Talking with C-Suite 
                                    Brian Mitzman, MD, University of Utah
• 11:10 – 11:30 a.m.: Panel Discussion  

Advanced Group Lectures - at Hotel

• 12:45 – 1:05 p.m.: First Rib 
                                Bryan Burt, MD
• 1:05 – 1:25 p.m.: Tracheobronchoplasty 
                              Onkar V. Khullar, MD, MSc, Emory University
• 1:25 – 1:45 p.m.: Single Port Experience 
                              Robert Merritt, MD, The Ohio State University
• 1:45 – 2:05 p.m.: Esophagectomy Anastomosis 
                               Lana Y. Schumacher, MD
• 2:05 – 2:25 p.m.: Break / Visit Exhibits
• 2:25 – 2:45 p.m.: Tips and tricks of esophageal conduit preparation 
                               Manu Sancheti, MD, Emory University
• 2:45 – 3:05 p.m.: Expanding your program 
                               Brian Mitzman, MD
• 3:05 – 3:25 p.m.: Managing Disasters: Ask the Experts – Submissions  
                               Panel  
• 3:25 – 4:00 p.m.: Panel discussion