Springer Publishers (winner of the Medgadget Most Orwellian Slogan Award for “We Manage Knowledge“) have launched the Journal of Robotic Surgery. I, for one, welcome our new robotic surgeon author overlords, led by Drs Kang and Kodos…
Springer, one of the world’s leading science, technology, and medicine publishers, is launching the Journal of Robotic Surgery. This new journal will be the first to focus exclusively on emerging robotic applications in surgery, and is positioned to become the world’s foremost clinical resource for robotic surgical education. Four issues will be published annually, starting January 2007.
The Journal of Robotic Surgery will publish papers on robotic surgical applications in urology, cardiac surgery, gynecology, ENT, neurosurgery, and general surgery. The scope of this new journal is extensive, including original articles, techniques, reviews, simulation and imaging, videos, and educational training. Vipul Patel, MD, Director of The Center for Robotic and Computer Assisted Surgery and Associate Clinical Professor of Urology and Bioinformatics at The Ohio State University, will be Editor-In-Chief. Dr. Patel is an internationally recognized expert in minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic urologic surgery.
More from the press release and the JoRS main page…
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