MIGS surgeons discuss vNOTES in roundtable panel discussion
Contemporary OB/GYN® Deputy Medical Editor Jon I. Einarsson, MD, PhD, MPH, hosts a panel discussion with fellow minimally invasive gynecologic surgeons (MIGS) on the novel technology of vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES).
In this roundtable panel discussion, Jon I. Einarsson, MD, PhD, MPH, deputy medical editor of Contemporary OB/GYN®, hosts fellow minimally invasive gynecologic surgeons (MIGS) Grover May, MD; Brandi Hardin, MD; and Thomas Pitman, MD, to discuss vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES).
Jon I. Einarsson, MD, PhD, MPH, is deputy medical editor of Contemporary OB/GYN®; director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, Massachusetts.
Brandi Hardin, MD, is affiliated with Spartanburg Medical Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and is on the medical executive committee of the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Spartanburg.
Grover May, MD, managing partner of a large obstetrician-gynecologist (ob-gyn) private practice in Johnson City, Tennessee, was an early adopter of single-incision laparoscopic surgery and has provided contemporary mixed techniques to his patients for over 20 years.
Thomas Pitman, MD, is board certified in obstetrics, gynecology, female pelvic medicine, and reconstructive surgery, and practices in Southaven, Mississippi.
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