Richard Link
@RoboDocX
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Carlton-Smith Endowed Chair of Urologic Education, Professor of Urology, Director Div of Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine.
Houston, TX
Joined January 2009
Be careful to assess whether the contralateral kidney's collecting system extends across the midline in the isthmus of a horseshoe kidney. This case demonstrates a robotic left horseshoe heminephrectomy with exposed dilated right-sided collecting system in the transected isthmus
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Outpatient STEP procedure in 89 year old with 450 - 500 g prostate without prominent median lobe. 330g of prostate resected, 3 day catheterization. Although not a great case for early in your learning curve, very straightforward with modest experience provided you stick to
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Second SP came online this week and already busy opening up a significant bottleneck. This should support further rapid programmatic growth across specialties. Appreciative of the executive leadership at @StLukesHealthMD for their unwavering support of the transformative
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I'll be speaking at the 29th Innovations in Urologic Practice conference in Santa Fe, NM on September 19-21, 2025! 🌟 Join me and other urology experts to hear more on salvage nephron-sparing surgery and real world advice on building a reproducible training pathway for future da
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Thanks @Dr_Jen_Linehan. Really an all star team on the podium keeping me honest. Hopefully an interesting survey of empowering applications for remote suction in #SP surgery. @VascularTechInc
…. If you seek advice before your next case- the wisest robotic surgeon- someone who has known lap- MP -SP - retro/trans- see @RoboDocX - best tips on LAA kidney- pyeloplasty, and prostate, with an all-star panel #WCET25 @SocietySURS @mdstifelman @RyanNelson762 @UABUroOnc
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For purposes of keeping it simple - let’s define this case as post surgical extrinsic trauma, no radiation, normal capacity bladder.
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In an era of outpatient regionalized single site robotic surgery, how are you treating distal ureteral strictures (example shown). Transvesical reimplant? Retroperitoneal side to side reimplant? Something more traditional? What’s your rationale?
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You know it’s an excellent SP course when attendees stick around for 30 min after course end to ask questions. Awesome course faculty @RoboDocX @ZSchwen @oooitsjulz covered a breath of topics . We even had some pearls from the worlds expert in SP @drjkaouk in an avatar form
Great graphic highlighting this access @RoboDocX always looking to simplify SP surgery 💪
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Enjoyable time moderating a poster session on laparoscopy and robotics at #WCET25 with colleagues @RamPathakMD and Jinsung Park. Great job by the presenters in the hot seat.
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@Endo_Society #WCET2025 ALL about #Simulation & Single-PORT ✅ Wednesday Start-of-Art lecture '3D printing Innovations' ✅ Single Port Instruction Course Wednesday 5pm @RoboDocX @ZSchwen @oooitsjulz ✅ @SocietySURS Single Port & Endo (HoLEP) Hands Sim Tue to Thursday West Hall 1
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Lovely day yesterday spending time with @Kazumi_Taguchi doing three transvesical simple prostatectomies. @UABUrology is building quite the powerhouse in bph treatment (looking at you @jfunkmd 👍🏼). Thanks to Ryan Winn for organizing.
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SP is like having a camera with a bag of 10 lenses compared to a single lens. The options to approach a given task are much more numerous than the single lens option so more cognitive load. Once you figure out how you like to do things though it starts to even out.
@MaiasaurusRex @RoboDocX @mdstifelman Just had this conversation with one of my chief residents last week who did the SP cases that day with me & mentioned at the end of the day how he just felt mentally more tired. The cognitive load is definitely higher early on but thankfully it becomes more muscle memory in time
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This was a lot of fun to record. An honest discussion of the transformative power of regionalized single site robotics - both pluses and minuses. @mdstifelman and I have witnessed a lot of radical change in the MIS world over the past 20 years but somehow SP hits harder than
Single port robotic surgery is reshaping urology. @RoboDocX and @mdstifelman join @MihirShahMD to discuss surgical efficiency, recovery, case selection, and lessons from early adoption #URO238
https://t.co/cY09HwDIsy
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A short video discussing principles of salvage robotic surgery for kidney cancer. NARUS 2025 Insights: Salvage Partial and Radical Nephrectomy - Principles and Strategies | VuMedi https://t.co/TxZE1pIpyV via @vumedi
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So privileged to work with this amazing faculty at @IntuitiveSurg Connect 2025. An all star team of urologic surgical educators. “The rising tide lifts all boats.” Inspiring experience the past two days. Energized! @Dr_Jen_Linehan @RoboticsUrology @TheMobotMD @davidleegumd
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Da Vinci SP regionalized surgery through low anterior access can be particularly valuable for nephroureterectomy. Here's an example of a simple nephroureterectomy published in @urovidjournal with tips and tricks and suggestions for patient selection. https://t.co/E1TQT4dhwy
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