International FSIE Connections: Hansen & Wolf Trekking in the Himalayas!

Dr. Shail Rupakheti was a visiting international fellow with FSIE in 2012 where he spent time observing a multitude of foregut and hepatobiliary procedures as well as joining the team at the annual SAGES conference in Baltimore. This year, Innovations team members Dr. Paul Hansen and Dr. Ron Wolf had the opportunity to visit Dr. Rupakheti as invited guest lecturers at the XIV International Conference of society of surgeons of Nepal (SSN) Kathmandu, Nepal November 30-December 1, 2018. The Society of surgeons of Nepal (SSN) is an official professional non-profit organization of surgeons of Nepal. It was established on June 1992 as a non-government organization to provide platform to share knowledge and experiences among surgeons for mutual benefit. It aims to promote professional, academic development of surgeons and surgical residents in order to provide quality, standard, scientific, evidence based surgical services in Nepal. Dr. Wolf presented “Safety of Minimally Invasive Pancreaticoduodenectomy in the Era of MIS” and Dr. Hansen spoke on “Techniques for Liver Tumor Ablation”.