Los Angeles California, Estados Unidos de Norteamerica el doctor Rene Sotelo y su esposa Patricia a la derecha, Invitado Especial del Dr
Inderbir Gill a su bienvenida a USC, con reconocidos actores de Holywood (Warren Beaty y su esposa y la célèbre Shirley McLaine)
KENNETH J. PALMER (1.970) Uno de los puntales jovenes de la Urologia nacional venezolana con
proyeccion internacional. A continuación mostraremos sus credenciales
MD Diploma, 1.997. "La Universidad del Zulia" (LUZ), Maracaibo, Venezuela. General Surgery, 2.002.
"Universidad Central de Venezuela" (UCV), Caracas, Venezuela; Urology: Honorary mention, 2.005, UCV, Caracas,
Venezuela; Neuro‐Urology, Urodynamics and Female Urology Fellowship, Hospital de Clínicas Caracas, Venezuela; Co‐
Founder, 1st Robotic Surgery Program in Latin America, Hospital de Clínicas Caracas, Venezuela. 2.006; Robotic and
Minimally Invasive Urological Surgery Fellowship. Center for Robotic and Computer‐Assisted Surgery. Department of
Urology, The Ohio State University Medical Center The James Cancer Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA. 2.007; Robotic
and Minimally Invasive Urological Surgery Fellowship. Global Robotics Institute, Celebration Health/Florida Hospital,
Orlando, Florida. 2.008; Excellence Prize: College of Medicine, Committee for Postgraduate Studies of the Central
University of Venezuela, June 2.008; awarded for responsibility, disposition, outstanding and significant contribution
to activities related to all postgraduate courses of the College of Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela; Co‐
Founder, Robotic Urologic Surgery Program, University Hospital, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
2.009; First live robotic prostatectomy performed in a public hospital in Latin America, transmitted to Europe (Spain),
USA (Florida) and Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia); University Hospital, College of Medicine, Central University
of Venzuela, December 2.009.
Director, Robotic Surgery SOLCIMI (Latin American Society of Minimally Invasive Surgery); Associate
Professor of Urology, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, USA; Managing Editor, Journal of Robotic
Surgery, Springer, UK; Associate Editor, UroVirt, Journal of Urogynecology of the American Confederation of Urology
(CAU); Associate Editor, Archivos Españoles de Urología, Madrid, Spain; Associate Editor, Clinics, College of Medicine,
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Dentro de sus actividades cientificas tenemos: Total Nutritional Therapy (TNT). August 2001;
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS). ACS. March 2.002; Visual Communication. The scientific poster and oral
presentations. Nov 2.002; VI Congress of Oncological Urology (Update). February 2.004; American Urological
Association (AUA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco. May 2.004; I National Meeting, Urology Residents. July 2.004; I
Urogynecology Meeting. July 2.004; Urodynamics Workshop. I Urogynecology Meeting. July 2.004; I Workshop on
Basic Sexology for Urology Residents. Sept 2.004 (Head, Org. Committee); The art of healing pain. Venezuelan
Association for the Study of Pain. Nov 2.004; XXII Confederación Americana de Urología (CAU) Congress, Dominican
Republic. Dec 2.004; Localized prostate cancer. (Dr. William Catalona) CAU 2.004; XVI Internacional Course on
Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Urological Surgery, March 2.005 (Dr. Paúl Escovar‐Díaz, Instituto Docente de Urología,
Valencia, Carabobo); American Urological Association (AUA) National Meeting, San Antonio. May 2.005; Evaluation of
the Infertile Male (Dr. Marc Goldstein, Cornell University, PG Course, AUA 2.005); Diagnosis and Treatment of the
Infertile Male: A practical review (Dr. Larry Lipshultz, Baylor College of Medicine, IC Course, AUA 2.005); II
Urogynecology Meeting. June 2.005; Urodynamics Workshop. II Urogynecology Meeting. July 2.005; Advanced
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