SPECIAL EVENT: EXCEL AWARD PRESENTATION AND LECTURE
Friday, Sept. 19, 2008
12:45pm-1:45pm
Recipient: Harrith M. Hasson, MD
Presentation: Evaluating Surgical Performance
Established in 1991, the Excel Award has been presented to 23 surgeons deemed by the SLS Advisory Board to have made outstanding contributions to laparoscopy, endoscopy, and minimally invasive surgery. These outstanding surgeons are from various specialties and various nationalities.
Dr Harrith Hasson received his Medical degree from Ein Shams University Cairo, Egypt. He completed his residency at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. He also completed his OB/GYN residency at Presbyterian St. Lukes and West Suburban Hospitals in Chicago. Dr. Hasson served as Chairman of OB/GYN at Grant Hospital in Chicago (currently Lincoln Park Hospital) from 1981-1995. Following his term at Grant Hospital, he served as Chairman at Weiss Hospital in Chicago from 1996-2003.
Dr Hasson served as Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, Associate Professor at Rush University, and Clinical Professor at University of Chicago. Currently he serves as voluntary Associate Professor at University of New Mexico. Dr Hasson has published and lectured extensively on intrauterine contraception, laparoscopic surgery, and simulation. He currently serves on the editorial and advisory board of several Journals. He founded the Society for the Advancement of Contraception (SAC), and served as trustee and president of the AAGL and the SLS. Currently, Dr Hasson serves as the Immediate Past President of SLS.
Dr Hasson retired from practice in 2003 to devote his time to developing laparoscopic simulators and teaching. In 2004, he founded RealSim Systems, a company dedicated to developing laparoscopic surgical simulators. Dr Hasson holds 52 patents in medical devices and has developed the technique and instrumentation of open laparoscopy for which he received several awards. He is currently dedicated to replacing the current system of evaluating laparoscopic technical skills and operative performance on the basis of subjective evaluations with one based on objective measures and to enable doctors to achieve technical proficiency in laparoscopic surgery through simulation training. He currently writes, lectures on surgical simulation and assessment of core competency in laparoscopic surgery.
