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Dec. 1, 2009 In a speech on his own contributions to laparoscopic surgeries at the AAGL Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 18, 2009, Dr. Camran Nezhat recognized Rami Kaldas, M.D., as one of his most notable students who uses his innovations in everyday practice. Kaldas, a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist at Women’s Care of Wisconsin, started his practice after training under Nezhat, an internationally renowned laparoscopic surgeon, scientist and innovator at Stanford University Medical Center. Originally known as the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, AAGL is now global and the leading association promoting minimally invasive gynecologic surgery among surgeons worldwide. “I have trained many hundreds of fellows,” Nezhat said. “Rami is a self-motivated, dedicated physician who has devoted his life to helping patients. He was brilliant as a student and honorable now. Physicians like Rami make the world a better place.” It was only in the late 1980s and early 1990s when surgeons first began performing minimally invasive surgeries. The surgical approach gained momentum after Nezhat put a video camera on a laparoscope, a thin, flexible tube inserted through a quarter-sized incision in the abdomen and operated while viewing a video monitor. The technique earned him the title “father of modern laparoscopy.” Before that, surgeons would have to bend over the operating table and look into a little hole, making it difficult to do anything procedurally significant. Kaldas was one of the first doctors to bring minimally invasive surgical techniques to Wisconsin. “I recently read that 300 gynecologists can do this kind of surgery in the United States today and in our group, we have 12 of them,” said Kaldas, who has performed more than 3,000 minimally invasive surgeries to date. “I have taught every one of them, but they are each in their own right fantastic surgeons. They take credit for what they do now, not me.” Women’s Care of Wisconsin is based in Neenah, has six office locations, 15 providers and 100 employees, and is leading the charge to make minimally invasive surgery the standard rather than the exception in Wisconsin. The Fox Valley practice has even surpassed what is being done at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s very astonishing and humbling to have your teacher, who has taught hundreds of fellows and enabled you to make a livelihood, think of you as one of his foremost students,” Kaldas said. “His acknowledgement of me is a recognition of his own contribution to changing the way people practice medicine in Northeast Wisconsin.” A host of major conditions are now treated locally through minimally invasive surgery because of the work of Nezhat and Kaldas. “When I came here 14 years ago, 80 percent of the hysterectomies at Theda Clark and Appleton Medical Center were done by opening up patients with the potential for serious complications,” explained Kaldas. “Now we don’t open anybody and half my patients go home the same day, even after major surgery. “This is extremely significant and a huge cost savings. If you do not have to admit a person to the hospital, you have just saved thousands and thousands of dollars.” |
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