Frances Dixon
@FrancesDixon
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Thames Valley General Surgery Registrar • Research Fellow @MKHospital • MBA from @ImperialBiz • Research interests: ergonomics, robotics, colorectal
Joined May 2009
RT @AmJSurgery: Sharper Minds, Safer Surgeries: Understanding the Importance of Cognitive Ergonomics – A Perspective Piece from @SocSurgErg….
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Surgery is a mentally, physically, and emotionally demanding endeavor. While physical ergonomics focuses on designing work systems to support the physical demands of the work of surgical teams,...
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Thank you to @ACPGBI and @jdcamcolorectal for inviting me to co-chair this session. Thanks also to my co-chair @TorkiJ for ruthless timekeeping! Excellent speakers & a really interesting breadth of topics.#ACPGBI2025.
Attend Where Coloproctology Meets at 11 am a multidisciplinary panel exploring intersections with endometriosis, bariatrics, transplantation, obstetrics, leadership & training.Panel moderated @TorkiJ @FrancesDixon .Broadening perspectives in #colorectalsurgery .#ACPGBI2025
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RT @ACPGBI: Join "Where Coloproctology Meets" #ACPGBI2025 a multidisciplinary panel exploring intersections with endometriosis, bariatrics,….
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RT @AmJSurgery: Robotic assisted surgery reduces ergonomic risk during minimally invasive inguinal hernia repair: the VOLTAIRE trial 🔪 @Bre….
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This is the first randomised controlled trial to assess the operating ergonomics of open console robotic surgery for inguinal hernia surgery.Intraoperative ergonomic risk was assessed using the Rapid...
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Thanks to @AmJSurgery & @SocSurgErgo for publishing our ErgoEd trial on surgeon education to improve laparoscopic ergonomics. Education helps to mitigate risk but more needs to be done to make lap surgery safe & low risk for surgeons. @barrie_keeler
ErgoEd: a Pre-post Trial Investigating the Effect of Ergonomic Education on Laparoscopic Surgeons’ Ergonomic Risk Scores🔪 @BrenessaL @herbchen @pferrada1 @PipeCabreraV @CiruAndes2 @SWexner @TomVargheseJr @sminaev2015 @Carmensolcar @gogo_gopss Link:
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Enjoyed presenting today at @RoboticWall 2025.Thanks to @FilipMuysoms for the invitation to talk about Versius hernia surgery at Milton Keynes & our research @barrie_keeler . Any excuse to talk about my favourite topic - surgeon ergonomics!. @MKHospital @UoB_medic @CMRSurgical
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Super proud to have won Best Poster at @ALSGBandI 2024 for the VOLTAIRE trial. Lots of discussion about the benefits of robotic hernia repair at this meeting (especially ergonomics!). Thank you once again to my supervisor @barrie_keeler & to @MKHospital @UoB_medic @CMRSurgical
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Thank you to @SocSurgErgo for this prize & for the opportunity to present our work on open console robotic ergonomics at the SSE symposium today #SSE24 . Big thanks as always to my brilliant supervisor @barrie_keeler & all at @MKHospital @UoB_medic @UniOfBuckingham @CMRSurgical
Congratulations to our #SSE2024 abstract award winners!!. Best Podium presented by @IntuitiveSurg .Winner: Dr. Frances Dixon presenting "Robotic Assisted Surgery Reduces Ergonomic Risk During Minimally Invasive Inguinal Hernia Surgery: the VOLTAIRE.Randomised Controlled Trial"
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RT @SocSurgErgo: Dr. Frances Dixon is back again presenting her work on designing a video to teach ergonomic principles during laparoscopic….
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RT @SocSurgErgo: Dr. Frances Dixon presents the results of the VOLTAIRE randomized controlled trial to demonstrate the ergonomic benefit of….
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RT @docmartin22: Me: I think you need to adjust your ergonomic settings on the robot consule. Resident:
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RT @RealDanAshmore: Filming the Basic Surgical Skills (BSS) for the @RCSnews. It’s going very well and looks amazing! @goldenglobes here we….
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RT @Emma_Collins100: Great day filming the 7th Edition of Basic Surgical Skills @KARLSTORZUK @RCSnews with @LondonVascSurg .
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RT @SocSurgErgo: 🚨10 days til #SSE24 abstract submission deadline🚨. Abstracts due June 3rd, 2024! Cant wait to review your submissions! 🤓….
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RT @SocSurgErgo: Fantastic work @FrancesDixon & team, reporting results of the VOLCANO trial providing evidence of ergo benefits with certa….
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Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery - Minimally invasive surgery benefits patients but poor operating ergonomics causes musculoskeletal injuries in surgeons. This randomised controlled trial aims...
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Open console robotic surgery reduces surgeon #ergonomic risk. Just published - the VOLCANO trial using #Versius for colorectal resection. Read it here: Huge thanks to my supervisor @barrie_keeler & to everyone at @MKHospital @UoB_medic @CMRSurgical
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🤖 Robotic assistance can reduce surgeon #ergonomic risk during #colorectalsurgery. Really enjoyed presenting the VOLCANO trial at #ESCP2023 @escp_tweets today. Getting surgeons thinking & talking about ergonomics is vital @SocSurgErgo. @barrie_keeler @MKHospital @UoB_medic
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Thanks to everyone who helped promote this survey last year and to all our respondents.@ALSGBandI @RCSEd @RCSI_Irl @ACPGBI @BAUSurology @SAGES_Updates @britdaysurgery @Dukes_Club @SocSurgErgo.
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Great to present our survey showing the impact of poor #ergonomics on lap surgeons at #ASGBI2023 yesterday. 90% of surgeons reported pain. Read the full report in @RCSnews Annals here: @ASGBI @MKHospital @barrie_keeler @PVitishSharma @AchalKhanna5
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