Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Describe the development of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery
2. Describe the development of transvaginal cholecystectomy and understand why it did not become widely utilized
3. Discuss the latest developments in per-oral endoscopic myotomy

Faculty

John Romanelli, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate
General Surgeon
Baystate Medical Center 

Faculty Disclosure
None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.