The Frisch School broadcasts live robotics surgery

Tenth and ninth grade engineering students at The Frisch School in Paramus got to watch a live broadcast of a robotics surgery on Wed., March 8, 2017. High school engineering students in Paramus last week were privy to the intricate workings of a robotics surgery, as it was broadcast live before them from an operating room in Hackensack. About 160 ninth and tenth grade students at The Frisch School on Wednesday watched as Dr. Michael Stifelman, chair of urology and director of robotic surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, performed an hourlong robotic partial nephrectomy. As students looked on, Stifelman explained how he was preparing to remove a tumor from a kidney. The robotics equipment he was using, he said, enabled him to perform a less-invasive procedure.