Watch a Robotic-assisted Prostatectomy
Watch as Ashok K. Hemal, M.D., a pioneer of urologic robotic surgery throughout the world, performs a robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. Hemal, director of the Robotic and Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery Program at Wake Forest Baptist, helped develop the initial surgical protocols currently used by many urologists. A. Karim Kader, M.D., Ph.D., and Joseph A. Pettus, M.D., specialists in urologic oncology in the Department of Urology at Wake Forest Baptist, narrate the procedure and answer questions.