Performs major liver resections and Whipple procedures for pancreatic cancer totally laparoscopically. Directing testing of a robotically controlled holder for the scope and camera that provides a “third hand” for the surgeon, increasing precision and control. “Removing the head of the pancreas is the most difficult abdominal surgery. Americans were the first to do it laparoscopically, in the early ’90s, but it didn’t catch on because it was too complicated and took 12 hours. I had to take a fellowship in France to learn it — now it’s a six-to-seven-hour operation done through five small incisions, with fiber-optic cameras and magnified images on a screen.”