Las Vegas—Barry Salky, MD, chief emeritus of laparoscopic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, is one of the pioneers of laparoscopic surgery.
In the late 1970s, he started to use diagnostic laparoscopy. In 1989, he traveled to France to learn laparoscopic cholecystectomy and was among the first to offer the procedure in the United States. By 1992, he had focused his practice entirely on minimally invasive surgery. Within a year, he started to