SAGES 2008 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations

April 9-12, 2008
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2008 SAGES Karl Storz Lecture:
Inventing Our Future: Lessons Learned from Our Past and Stargazing to Our Future
Thomas Krummel, MD

Emile Holman Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Susan B. Ford Surgeon-in-Chief, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital; Director, Surgical Innovation Program at Stanford

Dr. Krummel’s career defines innovation. Having earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, he went on to become Professor and Chair, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics Chief, Hershey Medical Center of Penn State, University College of Medicine, and Chairman, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Medical College of Virginia. Along the way he has become an expert in innovative techniques for teaching surgery and his groundbreaking work in surgical simulation has helped to change how we teach and how we learn surgery.As part of that work he is Director, Surgical Innovation Program,Co-Director, Biodesign Program, both at Stanford and Director, Goodman Simulation Center.

He has published more than two dozen papers just on simulation, computer science in medicine and surgery. That research includes work in tactile feedback during MIS surgery, Psychomotor Learning Curves, Developing suture techniques with virtual reality and haptic virtual environments. He has created a large body of research in repair and regeneration, and extracorporeal life support. Dr.Krummel is a member of more than 30 medical associations, is editor of three journals and reviewer for eight more. He served as a director of the American Board of Surgery, has sat on a dozen committees of ACS as well as the joint SAGES/ACS FLS committee. He has presented more than 150 lectures or visiting professorships, clearly because he has something to teach us about where surgical education is going.

We are honored to have Dr.Thomas Krummel, a SAGES member, innovator and educator to present the 2008 Karl Storz Lecture.