NERI Organizes International Consensus Panel on Best Practices in Robotic-Assisted Prostatectomy

Funded by City of Hope

September 9-10, 2011 in Duarte, CA

Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a state-of-the-art surgical technology for removing a man’s prostate with minimal incisions and maximum control of surgical instruments. Although this technology has existed for at least a decade, surgical procedures vary widely and the field has lacked a common agreement about the data supporting best uses of these devices.

NERI recently organized a 2-day international conference of RARP experts to review existing data about RARP and determine best practices for this technology. A panel of 17 internationally recognized experts with wide-ranging surgical and research expertise convened in Duarte, CA, to discuss issues such as patient selection, surgical techniques, cancer control, and surgical complications and sequelae. The decisions arising from the conference will be published as a consensus white paper, with additional papers summarizing the systematic data analyses that were conducted as part of the conference preparation.

NERI’s award-winning Media and Communications group led the development and organization of the conference. The scientific conference Co-Chairs were Dr. Ray Rosen (NERI), Dr. Alexandre Mottrie, President of the European Robotic Urology Society, Dr. Francesco Montorsi, Editor-in-Chief, European Urology, and Dr. Timothy Wilson, Pauline and Martin Collins Family Chair in Urology and director of the Prostate Cancer Program at City of Hope, Duarte, California.

For more information on NERI’s expertise in organizing state-of-the-science consensus conferences, contact Lisa Marceau at media@neriscience.com. For information about RARP, contact Dr. Raymond Rosen at rrosen@neriscience.com.