These days, offering quality products and servicing them is not enough, we also need to participate in the education of medical doctors and nurses, maintain broad expert knowledge, and act more as surgeons’ partners. This is what Alan Munteanu, Sales Manager of surgical division at B.Braun Medical s.r.o., said in our interview. B.Braun Medical s.r.o. is the main partner of the 5th Congress of Mini-invasive and Robotic Surgery.

We have interviewed professor Peter Kothaj, chairman of the Slovak Surgical Society and the Vice-President of the 38th Joint Meeting of the Czech and Slovak Surgeons.

HOSPIMED Corporation – technological partner of the 5th International Congress of Mini-invasive and Robotic Surgery – will present the latest generation da Vinci Si robot in Brno. We have interviewed Martin Kaloš, Msc, director of the High-Tech Division at HOSPIMED, spol. s r. o. about the development of robotic surgery in the Czech Republic as well as about the prepared congress.

Johnson & Johnson as the general partner of the Joint Meeting of the Czech and Slovak Surgeons and the Congress of Mini-invasive and Robotic Surgery invests a lot of time and care to the preparation of this year’s event. On this occasion, Johnson & Johnson is holding two satellite symposia at the Brno Exhibition Centre and intends to introduce suture materials with antibacterial action, new circular stapler with adjustable height of the staples, and a new linear cutter. Read more details in the interview with Helena Nebeská, MD, director of the Ethicon and Ethicon-Endo-Surgery divisions.

The Brno congress will be exceptional in its range as well as the cast. Those who confirmed their participation will be, among others, professor Claude Deschamps, the head of surgical disciplines at Mayo Clinic from Rochester, USA, and Francesca Melfi – the guru of European robotic surgery.