Lunch Symposium — Medtronic

Henry Hoffmann

Results of more than 2000 implanted ProGrip meshes
Dieter Birk (Germany)

Session 7 — Clinical decision making

Ferdinand Köckerling
Ralf Wilke

Small asymptomatic contralateral inguinal hernia: operate or leave it alone?
Perparim Limani (Switzerland)

Diastasis recti: which technique?
Guillaume Passot (France)

Diagnostic pathway on chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP)
Sean Orenstein (USA)

Best Video Award

Moderation & Jury:
Jonathan Douissard
Björn Mück

Announcement and presentation of the best videos

1^st place 1000 CHF
2^nd place 750 CHF
3^rd place 500 CHF

Coffee Break

Championsleague

 Philipp Kirchhoff

Case 1 – Henry Hoffmann (Switzerland)
Case 2 – Fiorenzo Angehrn (Switzerland)
Case 3 – Dietmar Eucker (Switzerland)

Teams
Switzerland: Walter Brunner, Jan Kukleta
Europe: Marteen Simons, Bernhard Dauser
America: Hector Valenzuela, Sean Orenstein

Session 8 – The Special Hernia Case

Sean Orenstein
Cesare Stabilini

Operating on a colleague
Uli Dietz (Switzerland)

Dealing with multiple recurrences
Mette Willaume (Denmark)

The untreatable hernia
Andrea Pakula (USA)

Announcement Winner «Industry Rally» and Farewell

SAHC

The Swiss Hernia Days are the official annual congress of the Swiss Association for Hernia Surgery (SAHC)

Friday, 21 September 2018

Prof. Dr. med. Dieter Birk

Chief Medical Officer
Clinic for General and Visceral Surgery in Bietigheim (Germany)

Dr. med. Hellen Birsner

Board Member Forum Junger Chirurgie (SUI)

Dr. med. Walter Brunner

Senior physician, Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons FRCS
Honorary Fellow of the European Board of Surgeons FEBS (Minimal Invasive Surgery; Abdominal Wall Surgery)
Executive Board Member SAHC

PD Dr. Bernhard Dauser

Head of Surgical Department, Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy, Vienna, Austria

MBA, FEBS

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dietz

Head of Surgical Department, Cantonal Hospital Olten (Switzerland)
Executive Board Member of Swiss-MIS (Swiss Minimally Invasive Surgery)
Executive Board Member of SAHC (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)

Dr. Jonathan Douissard

Senior clinical fellow in intestinal failure and abdominal reconstructive surgery

Lennard Jones Intestinal Failure Unit, St. Mark’s Hospital, London, UK
Abdominal Surgery Division, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, CH

Dr. Dietmar Eucker

Prof. Dr. René Fortelny

Past President of the Austrian Hernia Society (AHC),
Head of Surgical Department Wilhelminen-Hospital, Vienna (Austria)
www.fortelny.at

Dr. Nadia A. Henriksen

PD Dr. Henry Hoffmann

ZweiChirurgen GmbH,
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
Executive Board Member of SAHS (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)

Prof. Philipp Hübl

Philipp Hübl is a philosopher and author
philipphuebl.com

Ihsan Inan, MD FACS

MD FMH (Swiss Board) Specialist Surgeon in Robotic General and Visceral (Digestive) Surgery at Clinique Générale Beaulieu

Prof. Dr. Philipp Kirchhoff

ZweiChirurgen GmbH,
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
Board member of SAHC (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)
Executive Board Member of Swiss-MIS (Swiss Minimally Invasive Surgery)

Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Köckerling

Head of Surgical Department
Vivantes Hospital Berlin-Spandau, Berlin (Germany)
President of the Deutsche Herniengesellschaft (DHG)
Executive Board Member European Hernia Society

Dr. Rebecca Kraus

Head of Visceral Surgery ad interim
Kantonsspital Graubünden, Chur (Switzerland)

Dr. Jan F. Kukleta

President of the Swiss Working Group in Hernia Surgery (SAHC),
Senior Surgical Consultant Hirslanden Clinic, Zurich (Switzerland)

PD Dr. Perparim Limani

University Hospital Zurich

Dr. David Joseph Lourié, MD, FACS

Los Angeles Robotic Surgeon (US)
Louriemd.com

Sean B. Orenstein, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery
Director, OHSU Hernia & Abdominal Wall Center
Division of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Portland, Oregon (USA)

Andrea Pakula MD, MPH, FACS

Medical Director of Robotic Surgery
General, Bariatric, and Hernia Surgery
Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery

Pr Guillaume Passot

PD Dr. Marc-Olivier Sauvain

Médecin chef de service
Chargé de cours UNIL
Spécialiste FMH en chirurgie et chirurgie viscérale
Réseau hospitalier neuchâtelois

Maarten Simons
PhD FEBS-AWS

Prof. Dr. Cesare Stabilini

DISC (Department of surgical sciences)
Università degli Studi di Genova

Dr. Hector Valenzuela

Guadalajara (Mexico)

Dr. Ralf Wilke

Department of Surgery
Askleplios Klinik, Weissenfels (Germany)

Dr. Martin Wiese

Gesundheitszentrum Kelkheim, Germany
www.chirurgie-hessen.de

Executive Member German Hernia Society

Dr. med. Mette Willaume

PhD, F.E.B.S. AWR
Consultant at Digestive Disease Center, surgical dept.
Zealand University Hospital, Køge
Denmark

Dr. Johanna Willburger

Oberärztin Spital Limmatal

Board Member, Forum Junger Chirurgen (SUI)

Speakers and Live-Surgeons

Speakers and Live-Surgeons for the 2nd SWISS HERNIA DAYS will be available soon

Thursday, 28 September 2017