Scientific Programme 2023
Thursday, 19th October 2023
8:00 — 08:30
Registration
8:45 – 9:45
Session 1 — UpDate Inguinal Hernia
Jan Kukleta
Eric Pauli
Critical view of myopectineal orifice
Ulrich Dietz (CH)
How to deal with cord lipomas
Rebecca Kraus (CH)
Inguinal pathologies in female patients
Mette Willaume (DEN)
9:45 – 10:45
Session 2 — Chronic pain in hernia surgery
David Chen
Sonia Ribas
Groin pain as the chief complaint
Andreas Koch (GER)
Chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP)
Debora Nowakowski (CH)
Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES)
Michael Scott (UK)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15
Session 3 — “When the shit hits the fan”
Marc-Olivier Sauvain
Conrad Ballecer
When the mesh needs to get out
Bernhard Dauser (AUT)
Management of bowel lesions and incarcerations
Neil Smart (UK)
The impossible hernia repair
Ramana Balasubramanian (IND)
12:15 – 12:45
Lunch Break
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch Symposium (BD Bard)
Henry Hoffmann
Clinical Evidence and broader Indications for Phasix-Mesh
Bernhard Dauser (AUT)
Phasix-Mesh in Diastasis Recti repair: right patient, right outcome!
Michael Scott (UK)
13:30 – 14:00
Best Video Award
Jury: Bernhard Dauser, Eric Pauli
Top three videos presented by the creator
14:00 – 15:00
Session 4 — Grand Round “Outpatient Hernia Surgery”
Henry Hoffmann
Philipp Kirchhoff
Input talk: Status of outpatient surgery in Switzerland
Felix Grieder (CH)
On the stage: Andreas Koch, David Chen, Felix Grieder, Walter Brunner, Dirk Weyhe
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
SAHC Annual Meeting (Members only)
15:30– 16:30
Session 5 — Swiss Young Surgeons Association
Stephanie Taha-Mehlitz
Hellen Birsner
My resident and I
Conrad Ballecer (USA)
My consultant and I
Maaike Vierstraete (BEL)
Digital platforms in Hernia education
Knut Borch (NOR)
Podium Discussion
Rebecca Kraus, Conrad Ballecer, Maaike Vierstraete, Knut Borch, Jonathan Douissard, Ulrich Dietz
16:30 – 17:30
Session 6 — UpDate on Diastasis recti
Jan Kukleta
Dirk Weyhe
Patient view (CH)
Hernia surgeons view
Victor Radu (ROM)
Plastic surgeons view
Rik Osinga (CH)
17:30 – 18:00
Keynote lecture
“On the hunt for the building blocks of life in space”
Prof. Dr. Susanne Wampfler
19:00
Networking Event
Friday, 20th October 2023
8:00 — 08.30
Registration
8:30 – 10:00
Deferred Live Surgery – Part 1
Philipp Kirchhoff, Walter Brunner,
Andreas Koch, Jan Kukleta, Mette Willaume
Diastasis recti with Phasix Mesh – Michael Scott (UK)
Flank hernia – Conrad Ballecer (USA)
Neurectomy – David Chen (USA)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00
Deferred Live Surgery – Part 2
Philipp Kirchhoff, Walter Brunner,
Andreas Koch, Jan Kukleta, Mette Willaume
Pauli repair – Eric Pauli (USA)
rTAPP – Jonathan Douissard (CH)
eTEP – Victor Radu (ROM)
12:00 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 – 13:15
Lunch Symposium (Laubscher)
Philipp Kirchhoff
13:15 – 14:15
Session 7 — Robotics, VR and more
Ulrich Dietz
Bernhard Dauser
Does the robot make me a better surgeon
David Chen (USA)
Critical view on robotics; economy, OR time and learning curve
Jonathan Douissard (CH)
The operation room of the future
Dirk Weyhe (GER)
14:15 – 14:45
Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:45
Championsleague
Philipp Kirchhoff
Case 1: Sonia Ribas (POR)
Case 2: Marc – Olivier Sauvain (CH)
Case 3: Sebastian Soppe (CH)
Teams
Switzerland: Jan Kukleta and Rebecca Kraus
Europe: Victor Radu and Knut Borch
USA: David Chen and Eric Pauli
15:45 – 16:45
Session 8 – Ventral hernia
Ramana Balasubramanian
Neil Smart
Treatment options for W3 hernias
Dietmar Eucker (CH)
Umbilical hernia: eTEP, MILOS or PUMP?
Walter Brunner (CH)
Surgical options in lumbar hernias
Eric Pauli (USA)
16:45