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Topic: Searching for a Better Definition of Robotic

Surgery: Is It Really Different from Laparoscopy?

Prof. Andrew A. Gumbs

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de POISSY/SAINT-
GERMAIN-EN-LAYE, Poissy 78300, France.
Email: aagumbs@gmail.com

Prof. Gumbs was previously Director of the Minimally
Invasive Hepatic-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery Program
at SMG-MD Anderson Cancer Center and, prior to

that, the Director of Minimally Invasive Hepatobiliary
Surgery and at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He has been Instructor of Clinical Surgery
at Cornell-Weill Medical College, Instructor of Clinical

Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons, and Assistant Professor of Surgery in the
Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer
Center. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence

Surgery and is a member of the editorial boards for
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer, Mini-Invasive Surgery
and Digestive Medicine Research. He is certified in
general surgery, hepatic-pancreatic and biliary surgery

and laparoscopic surgery. He has delivered local, regional,
national, and international invited presentations, focusing
on minimally invasive surgical techniques for the liver,
pancreas, and digestive organs. His articles have been

published in Annals of Surgery, Journal of the American
College of Surgeons and the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science. He volunteers for Doctors Without
Borders.