Session 6 — When the shit hits the fan

Marc Olivier Sauvaign
Hector Valenzuela

Case 1 — Martin Wiese (Germany)

Case 2 — Björn Mück (Germany)

Case 3 — Bernhard Dauser (Austria)

Keynote lecture: Bullshit resistance – a guide to critical thinking

Philipp Hübl (Germany)

Networking Event

Schmatz Basel

Friday, 25^th October 2024

Registration

Deferred Live Surgery – Ventral hernia repair

René Fortelny
Dietmar Eucker

Robotic TAR
Jonathan Douissard (Switzerland)

Subcostal and infraxyphoidal hernia
David Lourie (USA)

Parastomal hernia repair
Marc Olivier Sauvaign (Switzerland)

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

Anna von Boetticher

Anna von Boetticher is a German freediver (apnea diver), author, and public speaker.

She is one of the best-known freedivers in Europe and has set several national and international records in the sport. In freediving, athletes dive underwater while holding their breath, without using scuba tanks. Anna started freediving relatively late but quickly became a successful athlete. She set multiple records in different freediving disciplines, including:

• Constant weight with monofin
• Depth disciplines
• Pool disciplines (distance underwater while holding breath)

During her dives she can reach depths of over 80 meters while holding her breath for several minutes.

Anna’s Website 

Photocredits: Slider: Nuno Sá, — Portrait: private

PD 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

Prof. Dr. David Chen

Clinical Director of Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic,
Senior Consultant Department of Surgery UCLA, Los Angeles (USA)

Lucien Cron

University Hospital Basel (Clarunis), Basel (Switzerland)

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dietz

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

Dr. Jonathan Douissard

Gregory Dumanian, MD

Dr Fernando Ferreira

Leading Upper GI, Emergency and General Surgeon
Center of Complex Abdominal Wall Surgery
Hospital CUF Porto (Portugal)

Dr. Dietmar Eucker

Dr. med. Lana Fourie

Leitende Ärztin Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie
Luzerner Kantonsspital (Switzerland)

Dr. Lukas Gantner

Department of Surgery
Clinic of Visceral and Thoracic Surgery
Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Zurich (Switzerland)

Dr. med. Fabian A. Helfritz, FEBS, FACS

Chefarzt
Klinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie
Bürgerhospital Frankfurt am Main

Facharzt für Chirurgie, Viszeralchirurgie, spezielle Viszeralchirurgie, chirurgische Intensivmedizin, Surgical Oncology (FEBS)

Leiter Hernien Kompetenzzentrum (CAH/DGAV)
Leiter Kompetenzzentrum Minimalinvasive Chirurgie (CAMIC/DGAV)

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)

PD Dr. Henry Hoffmann

ZweiChirurgen – Center for Hernia Surgery and Proctology (Basel – Zurich – Liestal)
Surgical Consultant (F.E.B.S. Abdominal Wall Surgery)
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
President of SAHC (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)

Prof. Dr. Philipp Kirchhoff

ZweiChirurgen  – Center for Hernia Surgery and Proctology (Basel – Zurich – Liestal)
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
Surgical Consultant (F.E.B.S. Abdominal Wall Surgery, F.E.B.S. Coloproctology)

Dr. Andreas Koch

Senior Surgical Consultant, President of the Ambulatory Surgery Program of the German Society of General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV), Cottbus (Germany)

Dr. Jan F. Kukleta

Honorary President of the Swiss Working Group in Hernia Surgery (SAHC), (Switzerland)

David Ross

(UK)

Prof. David Sanders

Dr. med. Lisa-Marie Schupp

Oberärztin Kantonsspital Baselland (Switzerland)
Klinik für Chirurgie & Viszeralchirurgie

Fachärztin für Allgemeinchirurgie (FMH)
FEBS – Abdominal Wall Surgery

Dr. Moritz Sparn

HOCH Kantonsspital St. Gallen (Switzerland)

Johannes Toti

Department of Surgery
Ospedale di Bellinzona e Valli
Bellinzona, Switzerland

Dr. Hector Valenzuela

Surgical Consultant
Hospital Angeles del Carmen
Guadalajara (Mexico)

Lena Wäger

HOCH Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen (Switzerland)

Dr. Sandra Widjaja Kaufmann

Surgical Consultant Hospital Sursee,

Lucerne Cantonal Hospital (Switzerland)