The University of Arizona
Department of Surgery
 

News

On Television

Robotic Arms Open New Doors for Heart Patients - October 12, 2011
Dr. Molly Szerlip and Dr. Robert Poston interviewed on Arizona Illustrated

 

Robotic Bypass Surgery in the News

'Heart Team' Pairs PCI and Robotic CABG, MedPage Today, May 13, 2012

Hybrid Procedure Offers Heart Patients Best of Both Worlds, SCAI, May 10, 2012

Operation Robot, Tucson Lifestyle, April 2012 issue

Heart Lecture Focuses on Robotic Surgery - Green Valley News, October 25, 2011

A Better Bypass - Vim & Vigor Fall 2011

Robot-assisted surgery lifts man's quality of life - The Sierra Vista Herald, August 14, 2011

Robot-assisted surgery aids quick recovery – The Northwest Explorer, May 11, 2011

Sarver Heart Newsletter - Spring 2011

Bypass now leaves the chest uncracked  – Arizona Daily Star, February 17, 2011

UMC hires two more respected surgeons – Arizona Daily Star, January 29, 2011

Scalpel, Sponge, Robot Arm Please – ABC News, May 27, 2008

Bot’s a smooth operator – Boston Herald, May 25, 2008

Academic Papers

Establishing the Case for Minimally Invasive, Robotic-Assisted CABG in the Treatment of Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

Comparison of Economic and Patient Outcomes with Minimally Invasive Versus Traditional Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Techniques

Simultaneous ‘Hybrid’ Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Minimally Invasive Surgical Bypass Grafting: Feasibility, Safety and Clinical Outcomes

Effectiveness and Safety of Total Endoscopic Left Internal Mammary Artery Bypass Graft to the Left Anterior Descending Artery
 

 

What Our Patients Say


Patient Mathews

Paul Mathews recounts his story from believing he had indigestion to becoming a grateful patient of Dr. Robert Poston at University Medical Center.


Patient Wakefield

Ms. Wakefield underwent closed-chest bypass surgery just five weeks before this recording where she shares significant advantages to the new surgical techniques using robotic surgery available in Arizona only with Dr. Poston's surgical team.


Patient Fish

After seeing his normally tough brother's grueling and painful experience with traditional heart-bypass surgery, Larry Fish flew over 2,000 miles to Tucson for the innovative, robotic minimally invasive closed-chest bypass surgery .