Welcome to the Surgical Education Center (SEC).
The leadership and surgical staff members of this multidisciplinary institute are dedicated to the School of Medicine’s mission: Discover. Teach. Heal.
- Discover: Creating new advances in the field of open, minimally invasive and image-guided surgery through innovative translational research.
- Teach: Providing superior learning opportunities by emphasizing the newest developments in open surgery as well as in all aspects of minimally invasive surgery (i.e. image-guided, endoscopic, laparoscopic, and robotic-assisted procedures).
- Heal: Impacting clinical outcomes through the successful transfer of minimally invasive, open and endoscopic skills to a wide range of trainees while also conducting clinical studies to benefit the local, regional, and national community.