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About Omar Y Kudsi, MD, MBA, FACS
Gender
Male
Specialties
Gastrointestinal and General Surgery
Clinical Interests
abdominal wall reconstruction
hernia repair
robotic surgery
Bio

Dr. Kudsi is a minimal invasive surgeon with clinical focus on complex abdominal wall reconstruction. Recognized for maintaining one of the world’s most extensive personal databases in robotic AWR, spanning from patient-reported outcomes to published long-term follow-up data. He played a key role in setting up robotic hernia programs in Americas, Europe, & Asia and performed over 3500 robotic surgeries. Throughout his career, he established an accredited MIS fellowship and a funded clinical research fellowship focused on AWR and artificial intelligence. He has written over 100 original peer reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters. He serves as a periodic reviewer of several surgical journals and is the co-editor of five robotic textbooks with over 100 national & international presentations. He has assumed prominent leadership roles at CRSA, SAGES, ASE, and founded the Robotic Surgery Collaboration (RSC), a vicarious learning platform that unites over 10,000 surgeons. He has organized numerous international summits, taught hernia surgery to over 1000 surgeons and was awarded the Swedish Surgical Society’s medal in 2022.

Dr. Kudsi, a native of Aleppo, Syria, earned his medical degree from University of Aleppo, followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in tissue engineering at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, surgical residency at Lankenau Medical Center, minimal invasive surgery fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and advanced Minimal Invasive Surgery traveling fellowship at IRCAD Strasbourg University, France. He pursued an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship and co-founded digital surgical, a company with patented technology in intra-operative real-time 3D micrometer scanning and Artificial intelligence. 

Education

Internship
Central Hospital of Aleppo, 2004 - 2005
Medical School
University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine, 1997 - 2004
Board Certifications
Surgery, General, 2013
Fellowships
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2005 - 2006
Minimal Invasive and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship, 2011 - 2012

Awards

Traveling Award
Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
2012
Distinguished Surgeon Educator Award
2015
Excellence Award
Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
2016
Steward First Award
Main Line Health
2017
Swedish Medal
Swedish Surgical Society
2020
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