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About
Georges Karam is a surgeon-researcher whose work spans transplant urology, minimally invasive surgical techniques, and biomedical tissue mechanics. His research has made meaningful contributions to two distinct but complementary fields: the optimization of surgical approaches in kidney transplantation and prostatectomy, and the mechanical characterization of human soft tissues for surgical simulation and device development. Karam's most cited work examines the cost-effectiveness of living-donor nephrectomy techniques, providing hospital administrators and clinicians with comparative data across open, standard laparoscopic, hand-assisted, and robot-assisted approaches — a practically significant contribution given the diversity of techniques across European transplant centers. He has also pioneered the application of robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in renal transplant recipients, a technically demanding patient population, demonstrating both the feasibility and oncological efficacy of this approach across multicenter studies. Perhaps most distinctively, Karam has contributed to experimental biomechanics research, characterizing the anisotropic, layer-specific mechanical properties of the human esophagus under large deformations — work directly informing the design of robotic endoscopic biopsy devices and surgical simulators. With papers accumulating over 85 citations collectively, his multidisciplinary output bridges clinical surgery and bioengineering in ways that serve both patient care and technological innovation.
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