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About
Thomas S. Lendvay is a pioneering urologic surgeon and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotic surgery, pediatric urology, and surgical education. Based at a leading academic medical center, Lendvay has made transformative contributions to how surgeons are trained, assessed, and held accountable in an era of increasingly complex minimally invasive procedures. His most influential body of work centers on crowd-sourced assessment of technical skills (CATS), a groundbreaking methodology that leverages non-expert online communities to evaluate surgical video performance. With multiple papers on this approach accumulating over 500 combined citations, Lendvay demonstrated that the "wisdom of crowds" can reliably discriminate surgical skill levels — offering a scalable, cost-effective alternative to traditional expert review. This innovation has significant implications for surgical training programs and quality improvement initiatives worldwide. Lendvay has also advanced robotic pediatric urology, publishing landmark multicenter studies on robot-assisted pyeloplasty and ureteral reimplantation, helping establish safety benchmarks for these procedures in infants and children. His prospective randomized study showing that virtual reality warm-up exercises improve robotic surgical performance further solidified his reputation as a leader in simulation-based surgical education. Collectively, his research has reshaped how the field thinks about training, competency measurement, and outcomes in robotic surgery.
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