Kris Maes is one of the organizers of SRS 2023 , the world congress of the Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS) , which this year takes place in Melbourne, Australia, and will gather more than a thousand specialists from all over the world in the coming days July 24th to 26th. The coordinator of the Center for Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Hospital da Luz Lisboa was invited by SRS to be the European representative on the organizing committee of the congress, with his expected participation as moderator in several sessions. The main intervention by the specialist from Hospital da Luz Lisboa, however, will be the presentation “Techniques to Improve Urinary Continence Outcomes: What’s the Evidence? What Works?”, done on the first day of the Congress, in the first working session dedicated to urology. Kris Maes and his HLL team also submitted to SRS 2023 four works in uro-oncology and robotic surgery (two papers and two videos), all approved for presentation in the session dedicated to these studies. The Hospital da Luz Lisboa team is, this time, the only Portuguese representation in this congress , placing the Hospital, once again, on the world map of robotic surgery and reinforcing its position of reference, and that of its professionals, in this clinical area. The annual meeting of the Society for Robotic Surgery brings together physicians from various specialties who work with robotic surgery. This year, once again, the SRS congress will address advances in robotic surgery techniques and procedures in urology, orthopedics, cardiac surgery, gynecology, bariatric surgery and head and neck surgery, among others. This is in addition to the presentation of 45 new robotic systems, in the various clinical areas. As in previous editions, the objective will be to share knowledge and experience on how to deal with the complex issues of robotic surgery , talking about current and future robotics, innovation and new technologies in this area and the future of surgical education.
