Gastrointestinal cancer surgeons at the UC San Francisco have performed the health system’s 15,000th robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery, making it the first University of California health center to reach this milestone. UCSF Health has the busiest robotic surgery program in the UC health system and is the leading academic medical institution for robotic surgeries in the western U.S.
The milestone surgery was a robotically assisted duodenal resection performed by Mohamed Adam, MD, a UCSF hepato-pancreato-biliary cancer surgeon who specializes in using minimally invasive robotic techniques. The patient was Elena Ceja, a 52-year-old woman with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Adam performed the surgery with the da Vinci Surgical System, in use for many robotic procedures at UCSF.