IRCAD Brazil becomes a reality!

February 2010

The IRCAD South America is no longer a project, it has become a reality. The foundations are already established and the building should be finished by November 2010.

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A new lease of life for the French University Hospitals (UH)

May 2009

French President Nicolas SARKOZY accepts the key points of the Reform on the French University Hospitals elaborated by Professor Marescaux's Committee.

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Meeting with the spouses of NATO’s Heads of State

in Strasbourg

4th April 2009

On Saturday 4th of April, during the NATO summit that took place in Strasbourg, the spouses of NATO’s Heads of State were supposed to have visited the IRCAD with Jacques Marescaux as their guide. As the visit was cancelled at the last minute due to security threats, a delegation of IRCAD guests was invited to the luxurious Rohan Palace to meet up with the spouses, and in particular with the wife of the President of the French Republic, Mrs Carla Sarkozy.

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A renewed recognition of the IRCAD as a model of excellence

by Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic

January 9, 2009

During the inauguration of Strasbourg's New University Hospital, the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, entrusted Professor Jacques Marescaux, the IRCAD President, with the task of reforming the French University Hospitals.

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Majestic Opening Ceremony of
ASIA IRCAD Taiwan,

the training centre for excellence in minimal access surgery

26th May, 2008

Drums and Chinese dragons welcomed the French delegation led by Professor Jacques Marescaux. The IRCAD (Institute for Research on Cancers of the Digestive Tract) in Strasbourg now has its clone in Taiwan: the ASIA IRCAD Taiwan, a centre of 7,300 square meters modelled on the Strasbourg centre, was opened with great flourish on 26th May 2008 in partnership with the Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Lugang Town, Changhua County, Taiwan.

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Inauguration of HD links

between the New University Hospital and IRCAD

15th of May 2008

During this event, numerous officials took the opportunity to discover first-hand the full extent of the benefits brought about by this new technology. They were shown the new HD system for training in digestive and cancer surgery, the set-up of the international “IRCAD” network (Strasbourg, Taiwan, Buenos Aires and Dubai), and of course the new "intelligent OR1" operating room, the department of Virtual Reality dedicated to automatic 3D reconstructions of patient anatomy, and a tour of WeBSurg, the Internet’s very own university dedicated to laparoscopic surgery.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy

visited IRCAD on the 6th of September 2007

Four months after his election, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the IRCAD Institute (Research Institute against Digestive Cancer) on the 6th of September under the guidance of Professor Jacques Marescaux, President of the Institute. Theme of the visit: Research, Innovation, Robotics and New Surgical Technologies, Competitivity Pole. On this occasion, Nicolas Sarkozy also discovered the ASIA-IRCAD project, IRCAD's "twin" training and research center which will be inaugurated in May 2008 in Taiwan.

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Operation Anubis

A world first in no scar surgery

Jacques Marescaux (France)

On April 2nd 2007, at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, Professor Jacques Marescaux and his team, B. Dallemagne, MD, S. Perretta, MD, D. Mutter, MD, PhD, FACS, A. Wattiez, MD, D. Coumaros, MD, successfully performed the first no scar surgery. This first human incisionless operation was carried out using a flexible endoscope for transvaginal cholecystectomy in a 30-year-old woman with symptomatic gallstones...

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Operation Lindbergh

First transatlantic robot-assisted operation

Jacques Marescaux (France)

Surgeons Achieve World First with Successful TeleSurgery from New York on Patient in France

Operation Lindbergh, a complete telesurgical operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France, was a total success. This is the first time in medical history that a technical solution has proven capable of reducing the time delay inherent to long distance transmissions, thus making this type of procedure possible.

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Argonaute 3D

Broadband technology serving the medical community

Share patients' medical records in real time for in-depth analysis

A new experimental application known as Argonaute 3D makes it possible to share patients’ medical records in real time for in-depth analysis and enhanced preparation of optimum surgical strategies.
Following the success in 2001 of Operation Lindbergh - the world’s first transatlantic telesurgical procedure - France Telecom and IRCAD (Institute for Research into Cancer of the Digestive System) are continuing their partnership with the creation of the Argonaute 3D experimental platform...

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