About Simulated Surgical Systems

Founded in 2009, Simulated Surgical Systems LLC, is a pioneer in the development of robot-assisted surgical simulators, designed to reduce surgical error and make robot-assisted surgical education economically feasible. The RoSS simulator is based upon extensive research conducted with collaboration between the Robotic Surgery Department of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY and the Virtual Reality Laboratory of the University at Buffalo. This team combines experiences of over a thousand surgical procedures with virtual reality medical simulation technology under development since the mid-1990's.

Principals

Khurshid A. Guru, MD - Co-founder

  • Director of Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute since October 2005
  • Dr Guru and the Roswell team pioneered the Robotic cystectomy program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  • Performed the first Robotic cystectomy in the Western New York in November of 2005
  • Assisted and performed over five hundred robotic prostatectomies
  • One of the few fellowship trained Robotic surgeons in the Eastern United States
  • Residency training in Urological Surgery (2005) and a Robotic Surgery Fellowship (2004) at Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
  • International Fellowship in Urologic-Oncology (2004) at the Urology and Nephrology Center at Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
  • Fellowship in Urological Surgery (2000), at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Togus, ME
  • Medical Degree - University of Mysore in Karnataka, India (1995)

Thenkuruss 'Kesh' Kesavadas, PhD - Co-founder

  • Faculty in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Buffalo
  • Adjunct faculty in Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Buffalo
  • Adjunct faculty position at the Rosewell Park Cancer Institute
  • Founder-Director of the UB-Virtual Reality Laboratory
  • Research areas include virtual reality,haptics and bioengineering
  • Doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering - Pennsylvania State University (1995)
  • Honored as the "Inventor of the Year" for 2004 by Western New York & Buffalo Niagara Technical Societies and Intellectual Property Association
  • Profiled by Business Week (2002) in an article titled 'Five Gurus of Medical Technology' for his work on medical virtual reality.