The Future of Surgery is Digital

The Society for Digital Surgery brings together practitioners, technologists and funders to incubate the future of surgery.

Our thesis

Digital surgery —defined as "the use of technology for the enhancement of preoperative planning, surgical performance, therapeutic support, or training" [1]— can substantially improve outcomes in surgery and reduce harm to patients.

[1] Lam et al. A Delphi consensus statement for digital surgery. npj Digit. Med. 5, 100 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00641-6

Initiatives

Forum

The Society for Digital Surgery Forum is a yearly global meeting bringing together practitioners, technologists and funders to catalyze initiatives in digital surgery.

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Proceedings

The Proceedings of the Society for Digital Surgery is a planned gold open access scholarly publication for the dissemination of frontier original research on digital surgery.

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Handbook

The Society for Digital Surgery Handbook is an authoritative guide to help practitioners, technologists and the general public to learn more about and delve deeper on digital surgery.

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Join the Society

Apply to become an inaugural member of the Society for Digital Surgery.

Inaugural member benefits include permanent free access to hundreds of resources in digital surgery via the Society for Digital Surgery Handbook, editorial opportunities at the Proceedings of the Society for Digital Surgery, and free admittance to the Society for Digital Surgery Forum.

Society for Digital Surgery members are also eligible to join the inaugural 2024-2025 Society for Digital Surgery Leadership positions, to help shape the future of digital surgery.

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