Endoscope

VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Joshua Gafford, Ph.D. Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer EndoTheia Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: EndoTheia: Augmenting the Capabilities of Flexible Endoscopes Abstract: Historically, clinical applications of flexible… Read More

VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Hrishikesh Deo, PhD Founder and CEO, Ergami Endoscopy Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Flexible endoscope hygiene and infection prevention strategy: Innovations in endoscope design Abstract: Flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes are… Read More

Proprioceptive technology uses magnetic coupling to draw endoscopes forward, sparing patient and clinician injuries. Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III PhD and Duke Herrell MD is developing a surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy. The collaboration between a mechanical engineer (Webster) and a urologic surgeon (Herrell) resulted in an award of $2.1 million from a National Institutes… Read More

Picture sitting back while a robotically controlled capsule endoscope swims through your patient’s gut, or conducting an upper endoscopy and viewing the procedure on your smartphone instead of investing in a monitor. If two experimental devices presented at Digestive Disease Week 2017 pan out in clinical trials, these scenarios could… Read More