Moving beyond individual clinical training towards institutional sustainability, regional capacity, and safe laparoscopic infrastructure.
Every surgeon, surgical fellow, and resident must attain accredited basic laparoscopic training at least once. We champion standardized foundational simulation and dry-lab competencies across all surgical staff, ensuring a safe, consistent baseline before entering the operating room.
Addressing the vital need among surgical educators to actively facilitate and embed minimally invasive surgery within core residency and fellowship training curricula. Cultivating academic leaders who mentor trainees with modern pedagogy, simulation labs, and objective competency assessment.
Minimally invasive surgery must be systematically optimized across every surgical specialty and teaching referral center. We uphold that every patient has an essential right to access minimally invasive surgery, benefiting from tissue-sparing precision, faster recovery, and lower surgical morbidity.
Strengthening inter-organizational partnerships and African hospital collaboration to advance health equity and modern surgical access. Uniting institutions continent-wide to facilitate shared surgical training, faculty exchanges, resource pooling, and collective innovation.
The 2nd Ethiopian Minimally Invasive Surgery Conference marks a transformative milestone. We are shifting from short-term training workshops to building long-term, self-sustaining minimally invasive surgical ecosystems in public and teaching hospitals.
Secure your attendance for the premier MIS gathering in East Africa. Limited workshop seats allocated on a priority basis.
Complete RegistrationMIS Africa was founded by a coalition of close surgeon friends united by a shared vision: to expand access to minimally invasive surgery across low- and middle-income countries, starting with Ethiopia.
To date, MIS Africa has equipped several teaching hospitals and trained over 100 surgeons, surgical residents, OR nurses, and biomedical engineers, contributing to sustainable patient outcomes and surgical dignity.
The scientific committee is finalizing keynote lectures, live OR surgical schedules, and workshop allocations. Register your delegate pass now to receive immediate agenda updates.
In April 2026, MIS Africa hosted the groundbreaking 1st Ethiopian Minimally Invasive Surgery Conference under the theme “Safe Approach, Safe Surgery: Expanding Minimally Invasive Services in Ethiopia for Better Health Outcomes.”
Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery – UCSF Fresno • Former Chair of Surgery, PAACS Soddo Christian Hospital
Dr. Jeffcoach is a trauma and critical care surgeon with global leadership in trauma systems and laparoscopic simulation training. Serving for four years in Ethiopia, he helped establish foundational MIS programs and residency education across the country.
Theme: Safe Approach, Safe Surgery: Expanding Minimally Invasive Services in Ethiopia for Better Health Outcomes
Convened: April 13–17, 2026 • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The inaugural conference convened over 100 surgical leaders, residents, OR nurses, and biomedical engineers alongside international faculty from UCSF Fresno, PAACS, and Europe. It launched continuous hands-on simulation training in Ethiopia.
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Highlights from simulation training, operating theater telecasts, lecture halls, and award ceremonies:
Collaborating with premier hospital centers, surgical colleges, and medical innovators across the globe.
Showcase surgical devices, pharmaceutical solutions, and hospital technology directly to leading surgeons and hospital executives.
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