Thursday, 23 October 2025
8:30 – 9:00
Registration
9:15 – 10:15
Session 1 – Swiss Young Surgeons Session
Johanna Willburger
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Do’s and dont’s in ventral hernia repair
Eva Deerenberg (Netherlands)
Preventing complications in inguinal hernia repair
Dietmar Eucker (Switzerland)
Becoming an abdominal wall surgeon
Davide Lomanto (Singapore)
10:15 – 11:15
Session 2 – The female hernia
Eva Deerenberg
Iliana Geogloman
Same but different: female hernias
Vedra Augenstein (USA)
How to treat female ventral hernias in child-bearing age
Dr. Sandra Widjaja Kaufmann (Switzerland)
Inguinal varicosis, Nuck cyst and intraoperative round ligament management
Saskia Urbani (Germany)
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45
Session 3 – Important UpDates
Yuri Novitsky
Alexis Theodorou
Best three hernia papers in 2025: my choice
Walter Brunner (Switzerland)
Mesh technology: where are we 2025
Uli Dietz (Switzerland)
UpDate reimbursement system for hernia surgery in Switzerland
Marc-Oliver Sauvaign (Switzerland)
12:45 – 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 – 14:00
Lunch Symposium
14:00 – 15:00
Session 4 – Grand Round – Diastasis recti
Henry Hoffmann
Philipp Kirchhoff
Podium: Jan Kukleta (Switzerland), Anders Olson (Sweden), Vedra Augenstein (USA), Eva Deerenberg (Netherlands), Gernot Köhler (Austria)
Input Talk – Treatment concepts of diastasis recti
Anders Olson (Sweden)
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30
Session 5 – Words of caution
Davide Lomanto
Jonathan Douissard
Disasters from component separation
Todd Heniford (USA)
Risk of hernia overtreatment in the area of robotic surgery
Frederik Helgstrand (Denmark)
I learned it from YouTube
Knut Borch (Norway)
16:30 – 17:30
Session 6 – When the shit hits the fan
Björn Mück
Jan Kukleta
Case 1 – Jonathan Douissard (Switzerland)
Case 2 – Gernot Köhler (Austria)
Case 3 – Alexis Theodorou (Greece)
17:30 – 18:00
Keynote Lecture
19:00
Networking Event
Friday, 24 october 2025
8:30 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 10:30
Deferred Life Surgery part I
Walter Brunner
Saskia Urbani
How to approach the scrotal hernia
Jonathan Douissard (Switzerland)
Inguinal mesh removal
Vedra Augenstein (USA)
Parastomal hernia repair / EACS
Gernot Köhler (Austria)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Deferred Life Surgery part II
Todd Heniford
Jan Kukleta
Robotic flank hernia repair
Björn Mück (Germany)
Ventral TAPP
Dr. Sandra Widjaja Kaufmann (Switzerland)
12:30 – 13:00
Lunch break
13:00 – 13:30
Lunch symposium
13:30 – 14:30
Session 7 – Clinical decision making
Anders Olsson
Vedra Augenstein
Limits of robotic approach in AWR
Yuri Novitsky (USA)
Management of chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP)
Debora Nowakowski (Switzerland)
When all bridges are burned: bail out procedures in AWR
Todd Heniford (USA)
15:15 – 16:15
Championsleague
Philipp Kirchhoff
Team Switzerland: Dietmar Eucker, Sandra Widjaja Kaufmann
Team Europe: Knut Borch, Frederik Helgstrand
Team Asia-America: Davide Lomanto, Vedra Augenstein
Case 1 — Iliana Geogloman (UK)
Case 2 — Lucy Hinton (USA)
Case 3 — Johanna Willburger (Switzerland)
16:15 – 16:45
Best Video Award 2025
Moderation & Jury:
Knut Borch
Marc-Olivier Sauvain
16:45
Announcement winner «Industry Rally» and Farewell
The SWISS HERNIA DAYS are known for a unique and innovative congress concept. Therefore, in 2025 we will provide the 5TH SWISS HERNIA DAYS ANATOMICAL WORKSHOP. The Anatomical Workshop will take place prior to the main congress at the 22ND October 2025 at the Anatomical Institute of the University Basel and focusses on extraperitoneal minimally invasive techniques in ventral hernia repair.
Registration to the Anatomical Workshop is only possible together with a congress registration and limited to 28 participants.
The Programme
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Platinum Sponsor 2025
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Registration
Information on the registration process will follow soon!
Salzburg Hernia Days
Zum zweiten Mal finden am 21. – 22. März die Österreichischen Hernientage in Salzburg statt. Anknüpfend an die bewährten und erfolgreichen Salzburger Hernientage möchte dieses Format nun die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Hernien-Chirurgie weiterentwickeln und als DEN Kongress für Hernien-Chirurgie in Österreich etablieren.
Es erwartet Sie ein spannendes Programm mit den beiden Hauptthemen:
— ezidivhernienchirurgie – eine Domäne für Experten!
— Prävention – das Schlagwort der Zukunft!
Endorsed by EHS
The Swiss Hernia Days are endorsed by the European Hernia Society, a non-profit making international scientific forum that focuses on ABDOMINAL WALL SURGERY.
8:30 – 08:45
Registration
8:45 – 9:00
Welcome and Introduction
Philipp Kirchhoff and Henry Hoffmann
9:00 – 9:20
Anatomy of the groin
Knut Borch (Norway)
9:20 – 9:40
Lichtenstein and Shouldice technique
Walter Brunner (Switzerland)
9:40 – 10:00
TEP and TAPP
Jonathan Douissard