About ISE
History and Mission
The Institute for Surgical Excellence (ISE) is a 501(c)(3) public non-profit organization formed in 2014. Its mission is to create solutions for complex healthcare problems related to emerging surgical technologies to improve patient outcomes and safety. ISE utilizes a consensus-driven approach to create new surgical standards by bringing together key stakeholders including surgeons, educators, researchers, engineers, computer scientists, hospital leadership, government, and industry innovators.
Through this process, ISE:
01. Identifies issues with the use of new technologies
02. Sets clearly defined goals to address the issues
03. Promotes collaboration among stakeholders
04. Determines and fills gaps in knowledge and skills
05. Promotes information sharing amongst healthcare professionals and healthcare consumers
ISE’s Full-Cycle Model for Education, Training, Assessment, and Surveillance for robotic-assisted surgical procedures is providing a roadmap for areas where consensus is needed, and standardization can be achieved. Each component of the full-cycle model was addressed through a series of consensus conferences to develop new standards for robotic-assisted surgery.
To date, ISE has hosted, facilitated, and participated in 17 consensus conferences to continue to progress towards expert-driven and evidence-based surgical standards.
01. Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery (FRS) Outcome Measures Consensus Conference
02. FRS Outcome Measures Consensus Conference
03. FRS Curriculum and Simulation Development Consensus Conference
04. Consensus Conference for the FRS Curriculum Effectiveness Evaluation Study Design
05. Robotic Training Network (RTN) Consensus Conference
06. Specialty Specific Curricula Consensus Conferences - Gynecology
07. Specialty Specific Curricula Consensus Conferences – Thoracic Surgery
08. Train-the-Trainer Consensus Conference – Curriculum Development
09. Train-the-Trainer Consensus Conference – Teaching to Train and Assess Regarding Errors
10. Credentialing Consensus Conference – Improving Standardization
11. Credentialing Consensus Conference Update -Dissemination, Adoption, and Implementation
12. Robotic Registry Consensus Conference
13. AI and Surgical Metrics Consensus Conference – Driving Consensus on a 10-year Roadmap
14. AI and Surgical Metrics Conference – Automating Surgical Skills, Assessment, and Feedback
15. CAARSS AI Research Meeting – Setting the Stage for Collaboration
16. CAARSS AI Research Meeting – Finalizing the Collaborative Research Protocol
17. Robotic Coordinated Registry Network (CRN) Update
ISE will continue to drive consensus in partnership with hundreds of robotic surgical experts from around the world, educators, researchers, engineers, surgical societies, government, industry, and with input from patients.