14:00 – 14:30

Best Video Award

Moderation & Jury:
Jonathan Douissard
Björn Mück

Announcement and presentation of the best videos

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

14:30 – 15:00

Coffee Break

17:00

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


 

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 Ileana Geogloman

MD, FRCS-EQ, AFAHE

Affiliate lecturer at Cambridge University
ASGBI (Association of Surgeons from Great Britain and Ireland) Regional Representative for East of England)
Chair for Equality and Diversity in the American Hernia Society
Member and Mentor in the Rising Star Academy for EAES ( European Association of Endoscopic Surgery)

Dr Todd Heniford, MD, FACS

Professor and Director
Endeavor Hernia Center
Chicago, Illinois (USA)

Executive Member American Board of Surgery

Dr Lucy Hinton

General Surgical Fellow, Endeavor Health, Chicago, USA
MBChB, MHSc (Hons)

PD Dr. Henry Hoffmann

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

Surgical consultant
F.E.B.S. Abdominal Wall Surgery

Yuri Novitzky

Speakers and Live-Surgeons

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


 

Thursday, 23 October 2025


 

8:00 – 8:30

Registration

8:30– 8:45

Welcome

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee break in the Industrial Exhibition

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch break in the Industrial Exhibition

12:35 – 13:05

Industry Symposium

Henry Hoffmann (Basel, Switzerland)

 

Next generation mesh implants: a novel approach with Phasix technology

Walter Brunner (Rorschach, Switzerland)

Thomas Auer (Graz, Austria)

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee break in the Industrial Exhibition

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