Dr. Gagner performed the first SPIDER Mini-Gastric Bypass this week with the help of Dr. Jean-Marc Chevalier at the Centre Européen George Pompidou in Paris, France!

Here's the press release.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the SPIDER system, it's a new type of laparoscopic instrument that allows multiple instruments to use a single entry point or trocar. And it looks like this:

Web. July 15, 2013

Dr. Gagner has been working with the company behind the SPIDER, TransEnterix, to develop this new instrument. The right and left instruments are flexible and allow the instruments to move, offering a very exciting new method of performing laparoscopic surgery.

And here's Dr. Gagner enjoying the city