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Dr. Farnam is Board Certified by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  He is a specialist in Minimally Invasive Laser Surgery and a native El Pasoan. He completed a subspeciality fellowship in minimally invasive gynecology and pelvic surgery at St. Elizabeth Hospital in New York.

He completed his residency training at the world renowned Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he received commendation for excellence in teaching.  During his training, Dr. Farnam was instructed by many of the nation’s leading physicians in the fields of Laser Infertility Surgery, Prolapse and Incontinence, Minimally Invasive Gynecology and Robotic Surgery. 

Dr. Farnam is actively involved with the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists and has presented or moderated at the AAGL Global Congress every year since 2006.  Dr. Farnam holds a clinical appointment as Associate Professor at Texas Tech Health Science Center.   He is actively involved in the mentoring and education of resident physicians. He also teaches new physicians and helps them to become board certified ( OB/GYN Board Prep, Inc ). Since 2006 Dr. Farnam has held an appointment on the Physician Advisory Board of HealthSCOPE Benefits, Inc. He is a national lecturer and proctor in Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Dr. Farnam participated in one of the first trials of Robotic Surgery in Gynecology in 2002 at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.  He was the first physician to perform a robotic myomectomy in the city of El Paso and is the first physician in the United States to perform a single incision robotic hysterectomy ¹, ², ³. In 2011 Dr. Farnam became the newest Epicenter Director and physician mentor for robotic surgery. The Robotic Epicenter designation makes El Paso a national destination for physician training in Robotic surgery.  Dr. Farnam is an expert in minimally invasive surgery and has performed over a Sixteen hundred minimally invasive surgeries, including over 600 laparoscopic hysterectomy procedures.  Dr. Farnam is a provider for the prestigious Hystersister network of mimimally invasive gynecologic surgeons.

Dr. Farnam learned Spanish while studying at La Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico.  Of Dr. Farnam’s many accolades, he is most proud of his award for compassion in medicine which he received during Medical School at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, and his 2009 Compassionate physican award by American Registry. He strives to continue this personal attention to his patients in his daily practice.  His goal is to offer the highest quality care using cutting edge technology in a comfortable setting which caters to the needs of each individual patient.

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¹ R. Farnam. Robotic Single Incision Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: A Novel New Surgical Technique. J Minim Invasive Gynecol, November 2009 (Vol. 16, Issue 6, Supplement, Page S96)

² P. Escobar, et al. Robotic-assisted laparoendoscopic single-site surgery in gynecology: initial report and technique. J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2009;16:589–591J.

³ We wish to recognize that Dr. Escobar's group both performed and published the first report of single incision robotic surgery in gynecology on 3/19/2009. Our surgery 3/24/2009, and report 11/2009 occurs subsequent to this. Therefore we wish to make the following clarification: these two reports described different procedures with different surgical techniques. It should be noted that our Robotic Single Incision Surgery was a Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy and not a Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Bilateral Salpingo-oophorectomy.

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