MIREILLE TRUONG, MD
Division Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Associate Program Director of the Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
MedStar Health-Georgetown University, Washington DC USA
Dr. Truong is a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon and educator who completed a Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center and a research fellowship in Surgical Simulation at the Florida Hospital Nicholson Center. She has also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her practice and research is focused on minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, fibroids, endometriosis, robotic surgery and surgical simulation and education. She specializes in minimally invasive gynecologic procedures, including hysterectomy, myomectomy, cerclage, isthmocele (uterine niche) repair, and endometriosis surgery.
Dr. Truong serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology as Deputy Editor, the Social Media Editor and Social Media Committee Chair. She is an active member of the Society for Gynecologic Surgeons where she serves as the incoming co-chair for the Programming Committee. She is also an active member of the AAGL and is the chair for the FMIGS Simulation Committee. She is an active member of the Society for Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeons as a member of the SLS World team.
With her interests in surgical simulation and innovation, she has created multiple online multimedia educational platforms including a gynecologic surgery education website www.learngynsurgery.com and has developed several robotic training surgical curricula.
She has experience with development of surgical simulation models and has created various models for surgical training such as a minimally invasive myomectomy model and the Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery (FRS) robotic psychomotor surgical skills model. She helped develop one of the earliest augmented reality robotic simulation hysterectomy modules. Currently she is developing training tools to train surgical teams and evaluating the role of virtual reality to overcome certain training challenges. She believes collaboration between healthcare professionals and industry is essential in evolving and innovating the surgical education landscape.
Dr. Truong is nationally and internationally recognized for her work in surgical education and simulation and has published numerous research papers on these topics. She has been an invited speaker and faculty for laparoscopic and robotic surgery workshops nationally and internationally.
Dr. Truong has mentored medical students, residents, and fellows in career development and research nationally and internationally. Before joining MedStar, she founded the fellowship program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
