Who We Are

The One-Kilo Club was born in 1996 as result of the founders' disappointment with the general misunderstanding and misconceptions surrounding vaginal and laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of large pelvic masses and advanced pelvic surgery.

The Club was founded in 1996 with Dr. Marco A. Pelosi II as President, Dr. Marco Pelosi III as Vice President, and Dr. Nicholas Kadar as Secretary.

For years, meetings and discussions on minimally invasive surgery for this type of pathology have been hampered by the unproductive criticisms of surgeons with little or no experience in challenging minimally invasive pelvic surgery. A constant observation has been the curious tendency of such operators to provide expert commentary on the safety, the practicality, and the merit of the techniques used to perform these operations.  Such speculation serves little useful purpose toward the advancement of surgery.

The founders of the One-Kilo Club sought to establish a scientific and social organization through which the fully committed, proven experts of minimally invasive surgical arts could concentrate their common interest untrammeled by the negative input of those who neither fully appreciate nor understand where the technical limits of modem surgery truly stand.

The requirements for membership to this elite gynecological surgical group are: a demonstrated interest in challenging vaginal and laparoscopic surgery as exhibited by prior publications or equivalent activities, practice performance and evidence that the applicant has successfully performed removal of a uterus weighing one kilogram or more without resorting to laparotomy. The One Kilo Club is not a hysterectomy society nor does it encourage the performance of extreme minimally invasive surgery if deemed unsafe or inappropriate as the best treatment under the circumstance. Rather, the main goal of the One Kilo Club is to encourage the performance of minimally invasive surgery techniques as an alternative to open surgery when surgery becomes unavoidable as the ideal treatment for a patient. The techniques must be reproducible, safe, effective, and easy to teach to the average gynecologic surgeon.

The One Kilo Club evolved from concept to reality in 1996 in Chicago at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, where Club founders Dr. Marco A. Pelosi II, Dr. Marco A. Pelosi III, and Dr. Nicholas Kadar welcomed all those who had fulfilled the requirements for membership.

It was decided that the Club would not be divisive or a competitive entity for established OB/GYN societies and that it would admit all academic and non-academic qualified members. No dues are required.

An elite society devoted to the minimally invasive surgical approach to difficult and complicated pelvic surgery now exists.  Expertise with this type of surgery is uncommon and, until now, has been limited to a handful of pelvic surgeons worldwide.

It is inevitable that the union of the world's experts in this type of surgery will foster the very productive exchange of successful ideas and techniques.

Once again, welcome to the One Kilo Club.