Saudi Society for Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery

The Saudi Society for Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery is a Saudi scientific society that focuses on the field of laparoscopic surgery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It falls under the jurisdiction of King Saud University, and its main headquarters is located in the capital, Riyadh. The society aims to train doctors in laparoscopic surgery and provide licenses to perform new surgical procedures.

It aims to develop scientific thought in the field of specialization by working on its enhancement, activation, and dissemination. It also seeks to foster scientific communication among the society's members and those interested in the specialization, facilitating the exchange of scientific output and ideas in the areas of the society's interests with relevant bodies and institutions both within and outside the Kingdom. Moreover, it offers initiatives and advances the scientific and professional performance of its members and those interested.

The society has several mandates, including: serving laparoscopic surgery and contributing to its development by encouraging specialized scientific research, supporting it, and arbitrating it. It also involves the authoring and translation of scientific books and curricula in the field of laparoscopic surgery, organizing scientific trips and competitions, developing the association's financial resources, and providing scientific, practical, and professional consultations and studies.

The society also organizes conferences, symposiums, seminars, courses, workshops, and training programs. It arranges exhibitions and scientific and educational events, publishes scientific journals and educational materials, implements media activities and awareness campaigns, and builds partnerships and alliances with unions, scientific societies, and local and international entities with shared interests. It invites relevant scholars and thinkers to participate in the society's activities, prepares study plans and programs, and participates in their evaluation.

King Saud University manages the Saudi Society for Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery. It works on enhancing its scientific and professional performance, facilitating its operations, and achieving communication between the university management and professional bodies and institutions. The university also fosters the society's research outputs and provides administrative advice to it, and the scientific associations' management works on developing the society's regulatory rules, setting standards for evaluating the efficiency of the society's performance, and determining the disbursement controls for it. It also outlines the operational procedures in the society and enhances the competence of its staff.