Urology Robotic Surgery: 15-year Path

Urologists have always been at the forefront of new developments and have changed the face of open surgery by embracing ever-changing improvements and technological advances. Robotic-assisted laparoscopic urologic surgery is a major evolution in the field and has now become a major subspecialty. Robotic-assisted laparoscopic urologic surgery was first performed in 2000, and the last 15 years have been testimony to its exponential growth and overwhelming adoption by surgeons and patients across the world.

There is an ever-increasing amount of information available on the subject that surgeons need to quickly assimilate. This issue of Urologic Clinics of North America aims to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art information about the recent developments in the areas of Uro-Oncology, Reconstructive Urology, and Female Urology. Topics such as issue of training, evidence-based practice, the economics of robotic surgery, and the impact on public and global health are also covered.

The contributors are truly pioneers and the best experts in the field. I am extremely grateful to all the individual authors and believe the information they have shared will be extremely useful to present and future urologists who have embraced this form of minimally invasive surgery.

It is an honor and privilege for me to write the preface as I have been involved in robotic surgery since its inception and it has been an astounding and eclectic journey.

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