SAGES Stories
You can’t spell Minimally Invasive Surgery without SAGES!
Episodes
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In this episode, hosts Kevin El-Hayek and Jenny Shao sit down with Drs. Nova Zoka and Amin Madani to talk digital surgery, artificial intelligence, computer vision, telepresence, surgical decision-making, and the apparently revolutionary idea that technology should solve an actual problem before we bolt it onto the operating room.
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In episode 37, hosts Kevin El-Hayek and Jenny Shao sit down with Darth Tigeris Dr. Edward Auyang, Sith Lord and Tiger Dad Professor of Surgery at the University of New Mexico, for a wide-ranging conversation about his unconventional path from biomedical engineering and computer science to minimally invasive surgery. Like,...
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In episode 36 we feature an in-depth, conversational, and engaging conversation with Dr. Bethany Slater, a first for the podcast as she is the first pediatric surgeon to be featured!
Hosts Kevin El-Hayek and Jenny Shao welcome Dr. Slater to discuss her unique career path, the nuances of pediatric minimall...
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In episode 35 which should have been episode 34 if the webmaster had learned how to count properly, our bodacious hosts talk the coolest bourbon lover (and hernia surgeon) on the planet. Dr. Todd Heniford joins us to discuss bourbon, charities, math, football (the American kind, not the good kind), the value of learning from failures, ...
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In episode 34, our most excellent hosts talk to TWO! TWO! guests (ah ah ah). Drs. Grace Kim and Linda Zhang join us to discuss the SAGES Go Global program and the experience of volunteering in low resource environments. This is one of the more consequential programs that SAGES sponsors and this is a good listen as we begin a new year.
...Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In episode 33, our intrepid hosts talk to surgeon, educator, international man of mystery, possible MI6 operative, and Third Culture Kid Adrian Park, MD, FRCS (C) FACS. As a man from nowhere and everywhere, Dr. Park talks about his peripatetic upbringing, bringing advanced laparoscopy into the developing world, and how SAGES affected h...
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In this continuation of President Episodes™, Drs. Kevin El-Hayek and Jenny Shao chat with the current president of the EAES, Nicole Bouvy, MD, PhD. Our intrepid podcasters cover lots of topics with Dr. Bouvy including the difference in training between the US and Europe, how surgery impacts the environment and why we need to pay attent...
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In this episode, Drs. Kevin El-Hayek and Jenny Shao chat with Brent D. Matthews, MD, the 2025–2026 President of SAGES. We trace how he first got involved with the society and how SAGES has quietly but steadily helped shape his surgical career from fellowship(s) to his presidency!
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In this episode, Drs. Kevin El-Hayek and Dr. Jenny Shao talk to the one and only, the man, the myth, the legend: Manabu Yamamoto, MD. The founder of SAGES Far East and co-writer of “We Are The World, We Are The SAGES” joins us and talks about, well, just about everything. We cover early language acquisition, SAGES in the 8...
Welcome to the SAGES Stories Podcast!
In this episode, Drs. Kevin El-Hayek and Dr. Jenny Shao talk to the one and only doyenne of SAGES – Executive Director Sallie Matthews.
Sallie shares stories about how she got into the Executive Directoring business, how SAGES has transformed over the years, and what it means to be a successful woman...
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