On April 12 of this year, Paul Szotek, MD, FACS, director of the Indiana Hernia Center and clinical assistant professor of surgery at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Indianapolis, virtually transported his colleague Hugh McGregor, PhD, FRACS, almost 9,000 miles from North Brisbane, Australia, to Greencastle, Ind., during the first live virtual reality transcontinental hernia surgery.
For this case, Dr. Szotek performed a routine umbilical hernia repair. The