GS05: General Session V
Monday, November 16, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Faculty: Randa Jalloul, Jamal Mourad, Javier Magrina, Mauricio S. Abrão, Kathiane Augusto

General Session V:

• MedTalk V: 273 - We Measure What We Can—Not What Matters - Randa Jalloul
• Border-Less Surgery: The Next Frontier in Surgical Telementoring and Global Collaboration

MedTalk V: 273 - We Measure What We Can—Not What Matters
Presenter: Randa Jalloul

MedTalk Description: Modern gynecologic surgery excels at measuring what is easy—operative time, blood loss, length of stay, and complication rates—but often fails to measure what patients define as success. True surgical excellence is not determined in the operating room, but in the patient's life afterward. This MEDTalk challenges surgeons to rethink how success is defined, measured, and communicated in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (MIGS), shifting the focus from surgeon-centered metrics to patient-defined outcomes.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

1. Challenge entrenched definitions of surgical success
2. Encourage adoption of patient-defined outcomes in daily practice
3. Improve counseling, expectation management, and satisfaction and align surgical excellence with patient autonomy and outcomes-driven care

Panel: Border-Less Surgery: The Next Frontier in Surgical Telementoring and Global Collaboration
Panel Chairs: Jamal Mourad, Javier Magrina
Panel Faculty: Mauricio S. Abrão, Kathiane Augusto

Panel Description: Access to advanced surgical mentorship is traditionally bound by geography, time, and significant travel costs, creating disparities in global surgical care. This postgraduate course introduces a scalable solution: High-Fidelity Surgical Telementoring. Moving beyond basic teleconferencing, we explore how next-generation "immersive telepresence" ecosystems—combining robotic computing hubs, low-latency cloud streaming, and augmented reality (AR)—allow experts to virtually "scrub in" to guide complex procedures in real-time. This comprehensive session explores the complete lifecycle of a global surgical collaboration. We begin with the historical evolution of remote surgery, distinguishing modern success factors from past limitations. We then examine the technical architecture, demonstrating how to integrate high-performance robotic data systems with cloud-based platforms to create a "digital cockpit" for remote mentors. Expanding beyond robotics, we explore wearable technologies, showing how smart glasses and AR telestration allow mentors to see through the eyes of the local surgeon in laparoscopic and open environments. Finally, we validate the clinical impact through the "mentee perspective," illustrating how virtual access to world-class experts elevates the entire local surgical team, standardizes techniques, and improves patient outcomes in resource-limited or remote settings. Attendees will leave with a strategic roadmap to democratize access to surgical excellence and define the infrastructure of the future global operating room.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

1. Evaluate the technical architecture of immersive telepresence, specifically how integrating robotic data hubs with wearable AR devices creates a low-latency, bi-directional environment for surgical instruction.
2. Demonstrate the clinical application of "virtual scrubbing" across different modalities—from robotic platforms to smart glasses—utilizing Augmented Reality (AR) telestration to guide dissection planes in real-time.
3. Construct a strategic roadmap for implementing a global telementoring program, assessing the "multiplier effect" on local surgical teams and addressing barriers such as credentialing, data privacy, and connectivity.