After 3+ years of work, excited to see our @MHEducation @MHMedical textbook on #AI in #surgery available for pre-order! Written with a non-technical audience in mind & priced to be accessible, we hope this helps introduce topics in #surgicalAI! amazon.com/Artificial-Intell…

Great to have @HopkinsEngineer @IMERSE_jhu Axel Krieger as @PennEngineers @GRASPlab speaker on autonomous surgical robots!

First @PhilAcadSurgery lecture of the season and an amazing Erb lecture by @Laparoscopes on AI and #Surgery the future is now and we need to engage and prepare -thought provoking exciting and scary @AmCollSurgeons @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @FoxChaseCancer @DukeSurgery

So amazing to see phenomenal leader and educator @BrenessaL taking on such an important leadership role! Congrats!!!

Almost 15 million Americans live in a county with no general surgeon. Read about our new @AmCollSurgeons analysis in collaboration with @uncsheps (led by @ErinFraher ): facs.org/media-center/press-… Access the surgical workforce mapping tool: facs.org/advocacy/health-pol…

Congrats md/phd candidate and general surgery applicant @chrisvarghese98 on talk at @AmCollSurgeons. Keep 👁️ out for this rockstar applicant on interview trail this fall! newswise.com/articles/artifi…

Fascinating session about Artificial Intelligence in surgery at #ACSCC26. Interesting to see 2 speakers and 1 moderator with @hopkinssurgery connections. Past Halsted residents @MeguidRobert @bratogram and current student @JuoTungChen

Love the slide with all the expert surgeons leading in the Artificial Intelligence space including you, @SurgEdMD @callcura @CarlaPughMDPhD @cjtign @_TylerLoftus and more. #ACSCC26

Well deserved standing ovation for @TomVargheseJr's @AmCollSurgeons #ACSCC26 Gibbons Lecture on #leadership #performance #AI Great to see growing number of surgical AI "base camps" around the world!

Great job @PennMDForum @pennsurgery MS4 Sharon Lee on presenting her work @AmCollSurgeons #ACSCC26 on ML derived radiomics for para esophageal hernias! A frmr software eng turned future surgeon bringing in great expertise! Heads up to gen surg residency programs!

Also @FigureAii @Apptronik Would best approach be combo of industry+academic surgical robotics research programs like @GRASPlab @DukeSurgery @PennTrauma @MGHSurgery @UCSFSurgery @hopkinssurgery @UMichSurgery?

The DARPA Surgical Competition is officially live, and I don't think I have been this excited about anything in my career. I have been part of the surgical robotics and AI community since 2017, and the progress has been remarkable to watch. Ask anyone who actually works in this space and they will tell you full surgical automation is not possible today, even if the popular press suggests otherwise. But what I have always believed is that this community never needed a headline. It needed a chance to take a real crack at the problem. This is that chance, and it is the first of many. We will find out what works, what does not, and where the research still has to go. When DARPA ran its first self driving challenge, the course was 142 miles and the winner made it just over 7. Today we have an entire self driving car industry. I expect much the same here. Falling short is not failure. It is a starting line, and DARPA is giving this community the opportunity to stand on it. There is funding. There is a real test setup. There is data. And there is no requirement to use a cleared clinical system. Bring whatever robot and team makes it work. Why does this matter? Because we ask our service members to face danger every single day, and when things go wrong, minutes and seconds decide who comes home. A wounded soldier cut off from evacuation. Someone stranded in a remote corner of the world. An astronaut on the moon. This is the technology that reaches them when no one else can. If you want in, start here: Register for the competition: centralfloridatechgrove.org/… Industry Day, September 22 in Arlington, Virginia, with a virtual option. Registration closes September 16 at 4 p.m. ET, so do not wait: darpa.mil/events/2026/indust… Competition overview and resources: darpa.mil/research/challenge… I am proud to be working on this from the government side, and I cannot wait to see what this community builds. The problem is psychotically hard. Good. Let's go. @Ken_Goldberg @Oz_Meireles @FilicoriMD @Laparoscopes @MichaelYipUCSD @Ken_Goldberg @krieger_axel @DanStoyanov @prokarurol @AjhungMD @RoboticsUrology @berkeley_ai @AUTOLab_Cal @GRASPlab @CMU_Robotics @SRV_Group @socroboticsurg @SAGES_Updates @acsJACS @traumadoctors #RoboticSurgery #SurgicalAI #MedicalRobotics #MedTech

Can surgeons overcome metacognitive bias? Drs. Acker, Hashimoto @Laparoscopes & Kelz @surgeryspice suggest learning from athletes to calibrate metacognition via: ✅Transparent metrics use ✅Dedicated coaching ✅Frequent, graduated data review @pennsurgery doi.org/10.1097/AS9.00000000…

Daniel Hashimoto, MD, MTSR, a national leader in research on data science and the use of AI in surgery, will join Duke Surgery this fall as an Associate Professor in the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery. Read more: bit.ly/4wCqmuX @DukeMedSchool

#ORena Challenge at MICCAI 2026—three tracks with one goal of breaking new barriers in AI x surgery—can we train models to detect foreign bodies? 🤖 Record: $60k in prize 💵 Spread the word to competitive teams!

On 6/26/26 from 6:45-7:15am EDT, @Laparoscopes & PGY3 Nithya Kanagasegar discuss “Endoscopic Management of Remnant Gastropleural Fistula After RYGB” at @CleClinicMD @CleveClinicFL #SurgeryLive Register at  cmrccf.webex.com/webappng/si…!

New @SAGES_Updates official white paper led by @laparoscopes: Risk and Liability in Deployment of AI systems Tripartite Framework of Risks & Medicolegal considerations in use of #AI in surgery Open-source paper: link.springer.com/article/10…