Awards and Publications
The Reproductive Specialty Center is a world pioneer in reproductive microsurgery. This page will be updated often with new awards and publications.
Awards and Firsts
- RSC is ranked in the top 10 clinics for IVF (third place) as reported in the U.S. World and News Report, 1995.
- First ever animal Hands-on lab for laparoscopic microsurgery. Endoscopic Excellence by and for Experts Laparoscopic Macro and Microsuturing Video presentation. American Society of Reproductive Medicine Annual Meeting, October 18-22, 1997.
- Second prize video at the International Congress of Gynecological Endoscopy (AAGL 23rd Annual Meeting, October 22, 1994) in New York.
- RSC also recieved a second place movie award for laparoscopic microsurgery of the ureter.
- At the American Society for Reproductive Medicine International Meeting in October of 1996 our video, Laparoscopic Microsurgery of the Pelvic Ureter was awarded the 2nd Prize in the movie section. This presentation dealt with women with endometriosis of the ureter requiring various treatments including resection and anastomosis.
- Their world pioneer status for laparoscopic microsurgical tubal anastomosis was recognized with a first place award for their video at the conjoint American and Canadian Fertility Society meetings in Montreal in 1993.
Publications
Simplifying Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
Through use of The RUMI Systemâ Uterine Manipulator and the KOH Colpotomizerä System
The following articles appeared in a supplement
to OBG management, January 1998. ã Dowden Publishing Company.
Speeding
The Move To Laparoscopic Hysterectomy - By Charles Koh, M.D.
Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Simplified: A
New Technique - By Charles Koh, M.D.
The Enlarged Uterus And Total Laparoscopic
Hysterectomy - By Charles Koh, M.D.
Is There a Role for Micro- Or Mini-Laparoscopy in Total
Laparoscopic Hysterectomy? - By Charles Koh, M.D.
Bringing Life Through Technology - By John B. Clayton - Article
from Today's Health Care Magazine, Wisconsin Edition, January/February 1996
Publications
"A New Technique and System for Simplifying Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy"
Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists to be publishedMedical Video Productions
Video Journal of OB/Gyn video segment: "Voice-Activated Robotics for Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy." November 1997.
Video Journal of OB/GYN video segment: "A New Technique for Simpliflying Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy" December 1997Recent Book Chapters
Laparoscopic Microsurgical tubal anastomosis - In Endoscopic Management of Gynecologic Disease. Lippincott-Raven Publishers 1995.
Tubal Anastomosis by Laparoscopic Microsurgery, chapter. In: Atlas of Female Infertility Surgery, 3rd Edition. Hunt, soon to be published.
Anastomosis of the Fallopian Tube, chapter. In: Atlas of Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy Technique, 2nd Edition. Tulandi, 1997.
Laparoscopic Tubal Reanastomosis, chapter. In: Endoscopic Surgery for Gynaecologists. Sutton and Diamond, 1997.
Laparoscopic Microsurgical Tubal Anastomosis: Difficulties and Pitfalls, chapter. In: Complications of Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy, 2nd Edition. Corfman, Diamond, DeCherney, 1997.