Founder of the fully endoscopic endonasal approach for the removal of pituitary tumors performed on over 2,500 patients since 1994 with an unsurpassed safety track record. Other fully endoscopic surgical approaches, (including supraorbital and transglabellar) for the removal of pituitary tumors, craniopharyngiomas, meningiomas and other skull base tumors performed on thousands of patients. Documented and illustrated the first 3000 fully endoscopic surgical cases in the textbook, “Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery” published by Humana Press in 2008 and re-published with Chinese translation in 2010. Currently collaborating with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design, develop and produce the next generation of 3D High Definition endoscopes.
