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as a leader in complex Robotic Oncology Surgery, when in 2013 he performed the first totally Robotic PancreaticDuodenectomy ,also known as the Whipple Procedure. This complex operation is most commonly done for pancreatic cancer.
key-hole incisions, to significantly reduce wound pain, hasten recovery, and improve quality of life, while leaving the patient in a stronger state to be able to stand up better to any following therapies or interventions.
Dr. Conway earned his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. Following his medical degree, Dr. Conway completed both an internship and residency General Surgery program at the Wayne State University Detroit Medical Center.
Dr. Conway was acknowledged by the Waldo Cain Award for Academic Excellence, for achieving the Best ABSITE scores by a WSU surgery resident in 2002, 2004, and 2005. The American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE) is given to all surgical residents as an assessment tool for residents and their programs in preparation for the American Board of Surgery qualifying and certifying examinations.
While at Wayne State University, Dr. Conway also spent time as a Resident Physician in General Surgery at the Korle Bu Hospital, Accra, Ghana, West Africa, writing the paper - Surgical Education: A West African Experience.
Dr. Conway did his Surgical Oncology Fellowship training at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California, where he first developed a strong interest in peritoneal malignancies.
He is board certified in General Surgery and is a member of the American College of Surgeons and the Society of Surgical Oncology.
Following his fellowship in Santa Monica, Dr. Conway accepted a Surgical Oncologist position at the Gayle & Tom Benson Cancer Center at New Orleans’ Ochsner Medical Center in Louisiana, where he worked for eight years.
The Pancreatic Duodenectomy/Whipple Procedure, performed as a radical traditional open surgery, requires a very substantial abdominal incision, and the complexity of the procedure would seem to preclude it from a robotic approach. However, ongoing developments in technology and instrumentation, coupled with Dr. Conway’s pursuit of improved treatments for patients struggling against particularly devastating, pancreatic cancer, led him to conceive of performing the Whipple Procedure as aroboticsurgery. TheminimallyinvasiveRobotic PancreaticDuodenectomy/Whipple Procedure eliminates the need for the large abdominal incision, making it possible to perform the same operation, through several much smaller
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