Endometriosis / Reproductive Surgery

Welcome to AAGL’s specialty page dedicated to minimally invasive surgeons with a focus on endometriosis and reproductive surgery.

The 2018 Goals of this SIG are:

1. REPRODUCTIVE SURGERY.
This has been neglected in this SIG despite the title – and should be promoted or removed from the title. The ASRM Committee opinion on the role of reproductive surgery in the era of assisted reproductive technology (2012) defines a role for laparoscopic reproductive surgery in the case of:
      a. Good prognosis distal tubal blockage – Laparoscopic neosalpingostomy
      b. Proximal tubal occlusion – hysteroscopic canalization
      c. Reversal of sterilization – laparoscopic anastomosis
      
The time is opportune for AAGL to take the leadership role in re-establishing and retraining the next generation of reproductive surgeons to fill this void in Fertility treatment – which is currently only IVF in these diagnoses.
      
2. ENDOMETRIOSIS.
      a. Encourage the adoption of TVUS as the gold standard for pre-operative triage in endometriosis before surgery. Establish standards to credential Endometriosis/DIE US among the AAGL centers of excellence. This modality is now established in numerous countries except the USA
      b. Surgeon credentialing by video review.
      c. Start an AAGL registry of DIE surgery and outcome.
      
3. ADENOMYOSIS.
A renewed interest in surgery by laparoscopy is emerging with sporadic reports. Good data is needed to assess this with pregnancy outcome.
      
4. SIG PG Course.
I propose:
      1. How to evaluate the fallopian tube and perform effective surgery in the era of ART
      2. Deep infiltrative endometriosis (DIE) – reproducibility of US exam
      3. DIE – how to approach successfully for the emerging laparoscopic gyn. Surgeon
      4. DIE – ultra deep dissection – how and when
      5. IVF and DIE surgery – which comes first?
      
I have faculty in mind who are superior at the above topics from my personal observation.

SIG Leadership
 

Charles Koh Chair

Iris Orbuch Vice-Chair

Ken Sinervo Immediate Past Chair

Board Members: Mark Dassel, Philippe Koninckx

Participants:

Baruch Abittan, Mauricio Abrao, Basim Abu Rafea, Rolando Alvarez-Valero, Louis Angelopoulos, Katia Apollon, Jeffrey Arrington, Bakytbubu Arynova, Jillian Babu, Paddy Baggot, Adrian Balica, Mona Bansal, Yochay Bar Shavit, Kenneth Barron, Frances Batzer, Mahmad Beebeejaun, Liane Belland, Benjamin Beran, Bala Bhagavath, Jeffrey Blake, Mercedes Borja Valverde, George Botros, Gustavo Botti, Douglas Brown, Tatnai Burnett, Hugh Byrne, Jaime Calderon Tapia, Brenda Camp, Maria Cano, Francisco Carmona, James Casey, Corival Castro, Maryann Chimhanda, Sarah Choi, Maurice Chung, Andrew Cook, Frederico Correa, Victor Dabelea, Marisa Dahlman, Karina Datsun, Donald Debrakeleer, Jerome Delotte, Nicole Donnellan, Alvina Driscoll, Jean Dubuisson, Noor Ebbiary, Scott Edwards, Jon Einarsson, Mohamed Elmahdy, Elizabeth Espinoza Rojas, Soorena Fatehchehr, Muhammad Fatum, Afshin Fazel, Rashad Feddah, Marco Flores Miranda, Nicholas Fogelson, Eduardo Fonseca, Antonio Francisco, Gary Frishman, Thomas Fromuth, Robert Furr, Preetam Ganu, Francisco Garcini, David Ghozland, Rachel Gibbs, Daniel Ginn, Jeffrey Goldberg, Rodrigo Gomez Cardoso, Luiz Fernando Goncalves Borges, Luis Gonzalez, Xiaoming Guan, Ashley Gubbels, Richard Guido, Heather Guidone, Karissa Hammer, Gerald Harkins, Peter Heinlein, Syarief Hidayat, Sheila Hill, Wagner Horst, Kathy Huang, Joseph Hudgens, William Hurd, Keith Isaacson, Rotimi Jaiyesimi, Grace Janik, Felipe Jofre, Deven Jogal, Bimal John, Krishnan Karthigasu, Salma Kayani, Hanif Khan, Zaraq Khan, Pallavi Khanna, Veerapol Khemarangsan, Thembi Khoale, Do-Gyun Kim, Jin Hee Kim, Cara King, Nathaniel Klein, Xianchao Kong, Nicholas Kongoasa, Jamie Kroft, Kumar Kunde, Tamer Labib, Melisandro Lacerda, Rachel LaMonica, Ted Lee, Jose Leon, Veronica Lerner, Michael Lewis, Paul Lin, C.Y. Liu, Franklin Loffer, Sandra Lopez, Marco Lopez Zepeda, Anthony Luciano, Danielle Luciano, Mohammad Luky Satria, Gisella Luque Clavel, Kristin Lyerly, John Lyons, Jesus Macias Duvignau, Peter Maher, Mohamad Mahmoud, Antonio Maiorana, Daniel Martin, Charles Miller, Manoj Mohan, Shanti Mohling, Iris Moore, Fred Morgan-Ortiz, Vadim Morozov, Cindy Mosbrucker, Janelle Moulder, Felix Muhlanga, Latasha Murphy, Sean Murphy, John Navas, Tahereh Nazari, Jose Negron, Camran Nezhat, Veronica Nicolalde, Junichi Nishida, Kazem Nouri, Albert Odom, David Ogutu, Jessica Opoku-Anane, Laurence Orbuch, Luis Pacheco, Rafael Padron, Steven Palter, Constantinos Panayotidis, Fernando Paredes, Kajal Parikh, Jun-Sook Park, Nima Patel, Yamal Patel, Ricardo Pereira, Rafael Perez Vidal, John Petrozza, Susan Pierce-Richards, Juan Pons, James Presthus, Alexandre Pupo Nogueira, Alphy Puthiyidom , Andreas Putz, Liliana Puycan Caceres, Ritu Rana, David Redwine, Harry Reich, Duarte Ribeiro, Francisco Ribeiro Da Costa, Radames Rivas, Claudia Rodriguez, Alan Rothblatt, Malay Roy, Tal Saar, Marco Sacoto, Andres Sacristan, Anibal Scarella, Tamer Seckin, Xenia Shepeleva, Divyesh Shukla, Shobha Sikka, Alyssa Small Layne, J'Leise Sosa, Michael Sprague, Andreas Stavroulis, Kamlan Subrayen, Eric Surrey, Christopher Sutton, Morva Tahmasbi Rad, Suresh Thani, Philip Thomas, Abraham Topete Diosdado, Esperanza Torres Arones, Nicole Tran, Jim Tsaltas, Amartuvshin Tumenjargal, M. Jean Uy-Kroh, Nirmala Vaithilingam, Fernando Valerio, Maria Vargas, Rodrigo Vasquez Garcia, Hugo Vazquez, Sanjay Vyas, Corey Wagner, Chin-Jung Wang, Michael Werkema, Wendy Winer, David Wiseman, James Wurzel, Xiang Xue, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Patrick Yeung, Jose Renato Zuardi, Nadeem Zuberi

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