UMKC Surgilab

03/18/2025

https://www.umkc.edu/news/posts/2025/march/what-did-you-say-operating-room-miscommunications-and-how-a-umkc-research-collaboration-works-to-solve-it.html

$1.9 Million Grant Funds Research to Study the Effects of Sound in the Operating Room

09/05/2023

Greetings to all UMKC medical students! Our lab is seeking participants for one of our research projects. Come join us!

12/20/2022

Exciting news! We have had 9 abstracts accepted at National meetings next year for poster and podium presentations! More details here:
https://med.umkc.edu/surgilab/

11/02/2022

Please join Dr. Sutkin and Dr. Brommelsiek for this fascinating webinar on Nov 16, 2022

10/14/2022

Woohoo - We're going to Chicago! We have had two abstracts accepted for Poster Presentation at the 2023 Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation, presented by the American College of Surgeons in March, 2023!

Stylianou AP, Arif Md, Cheng AL, King GW, Bachar A, Sutkin G. Kinematic Differences between Novice and Expert Surgeons during Simulated Midurethral Sling Surgery. Accepted Poster Presentation at the 2023 Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation meeting. Chicago, Il. March 1, 2023

Sutkin G, Mueller F, Arif Md, Stylianou AP, Bachar A, Cheng AL, King GW Estimating Surgical Instrument Position in Blind 3D Space during Simulated Retrop***c Trocar Passage. Accepted Poster Presentation at the 2023 Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation meeting. Chicago, Il. March 1, 2023

10/14/2022

Congrats to Dr. Majid Bani Yaghoub (UMKC) on his multi-disciplinary award from the CDC.
UMKC News: UMKC Infectious Disease Collaboration Awarded $879K Surgilab is proud and excited to be involved with this new multidisciplinary CDC research project. https://umkc.edu/news/posts/2022/october/umkc-infectious-disease-collaboration-awarded-879k.html?_ga=2.148883572.296637652.1665587677-1300006802.1654711912&_gl=1*1yojkvs*_ga*MTMwMDAwNjgwMi4xNjU0NzExOTEy*_ga_ED3TE3PHG0*MTY2NTc3Mjk2Ny40NDUuMS4xNjY1Nzc2OTg4LjU5LjAuMA.. #

Interdisciplinary team receives CDC grant to develop a new generation of mathematical and computational models of infectious diseases

07/28/2022

Congratulations to Arif and Shiva, on the occasion of their accepted publications:
*Arif MA, Stylianou AP, Bachar A, King GW, Sutkin G. Retrop***c trocar modified with a load cell to verify contact with p***c bone. In Press, Surgery, 2022, ISSN 0039-6060 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2022.06.011.

*Balasubramanian S, Wang X, Sahil S, Cheng A-L, Sutkin G, Shepherd JP. Risk factors for development of acute pyelonephritis in women with a positive urine culture. Neurourol Urodyn. 2022; 1- 8. doi: https//:www.doi.org/10.1002/nau.25005.

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06/23/2022

Surgilab is proud to announce the following publications, with our student team members as first authors:
Ablatt S, Wang X, Sahil S, Cheng AL, Shepherd JP, Sutkin G. Reoperation rates of stress incontinence surgery in rural vs urban hospitals. AJOG Global Reports, Volume 2(3). Aug 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xagr.2022.100059.

Mueller F, Brommelsiek M, Sutkin G. Mental 3D Visualization: Building Surgical Resilience for Performing High-Risk Procedures. Journal of Surgical Education. 2022 Feb 2:S1931-7204(22)00007-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2022.01.007. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35123912.

Kurian R, Kirchhoff-Rowald A, Sahil S, Cheng A-L, Wang X, Shepherd J, Sutkin G. The Risk of Primary Uterine and Cervical Cancer After Hysteropexy, Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery: March 2021(27)3:e493-e496. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001030. PMID: 33620910.

Liu C, McKenzie A, Sutkin G. Semantically Ambiguous Language in the Teaching Operating Room. Journal of Surgical Education. 2021 Apr 23:S1931-7204(21)00073-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.03.020. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33903062

06/23/2022

08/05/2021

Well done, Dr. Sutkin!

10/31/2020

Surgilab is proud to announce our founder, Dr. Sutkin, as the 2020 recipient of the Louise E. Arnold, PH.D., Excellence in Medical Education Research Award. He is an inspirational physician, mentor, and researcher. Congratulations, Dr. Sutkin! Thank you for all of your hard work!

10/19/2020

Today we’d like to introduce you to Imaima, a 4th year med student at UMKC. She recently participated in a research elective with the lab and now helps with our social media! She is a huge Marvel fan, and she is currently interested in OBGYN and Women’s Health