Selman Uranues

Selman Uranues received his degree in 1981 from the Medical University of Graz and board certification in surgery in 1988. Upon acceptance of his postgraduate thesis he advanced to the rank of lecturer in general surgery at the same institution in 1990, and then to professor of surgery in 1996. In that same year, he was named director of the Section for Surgical Research.^[1] and the University of the Witwatersrand, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Based on his experimental studies and on the growing demand for clinical application of ever smaller instruments and sophisticated techniques, including virtual reality and robotics, of which he was an earl proponent, he played a leading role in the development of this field.^[2][3][4] He has since gone on to advanced work in reduced port and endoscopic surgery,^[5][6][7] where there is enormous potential for future reduction of surgical trauma. He was one of the first to advocate the preservation of the spleen in trauma cases.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

• 1990 Science Prize of the Steirische Ärztekammer
• 1991 Science Prize of the Steirische Ärztekammer
• 2008 3rd place of "ebiz e-government award 2008 Steiermark" for the project "Virtual surgery techniques in surgery", Graz
• 2012 Innovation prize of the Familie Klee Stiftung, Frankfurt, Germany^[16]
• 2014 Honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest^[17]
• 2014 Visiting Professor Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Affiliated First People's Hospital

• Interview with Prof. Uranues after receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, Romania 2014