Research overview

The E. Kenneth Hatton MD Institute for Research and Education, Good Samaritan Hospitals research center, provides space for supporting leading edge research and enhancing opportunities for research and education through state of the art facilities that include biomedical bench research laboratories, a life sciences animal and cadaveric laboratory with two operating rooms, a minimally invasive surgery training center with simulators and a dedicated robotic da Vinci surgical system, and conference rooms fully equipped with audiovisual technologies wired directly to hospital operating rooms. Good Samaritan Hospital and its Department of Surgery now own five da Vinci surgical systems, with multiple uses being employed in the areas of cardiothoracic surgery, urology, and gynecology. With ongoing robotic research occurring in the Hatton Institute, surgical teams, both nationally and internationally, have traveled to Good Samaritan Hospital to learn how to use and perfect their techniques on the da Vinci surgical system. Committed to creating and enhancing opportunities for research and education, the Hatton Institute participates in and supports a multitude of clinical trials in areas of general surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, neonatology, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology, and urogynecology. The E. Kenneth Hatton MD Institute for Research and Education remains widely recognized as a technologically advanced center of excellence for both biomedical and life sciences research, as well as education and innovation.