Scientific Programme 2024
Thursday, 24th October 2024
8:00 — 08:30
Registration
8:45 – 9:45
Session 1 — Swiss Young Surgeons Session
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Johanna Willburger
Pitfalls in Lichtenstein and Shouldice
Rebecca Kraus (Switzerland)
Teaching in TAPP / TEP
David Lourie (USA)
Teaching open sublay and TAR
Sean Orenstein (USA)
9:45 – 10:45
Session 2 — Hernia surgery of the future
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Andrea Pakula
Guillaume Passot
Role of robots in future hernia surgery – Isan Ihnan (Switzerland)
Which techniques are here to stay, which will die – Maarten Simons (Netherlands)
Outpatient hernia surgery in private practice: present & future – Martin Wiese (Germany)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15
Session 3 — Important UpDates
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Mette Willaume
Jan Kukleta
Best three hernia papers in 2024: my choice
Nadia Henriksen (Denmark)
Real World Data from registries
Ferdinand Köckerling (Germany)
Guidelines in a nutshell
Cesare Stabilini (Italy)
12:15 – 12:45
Lunch Break
12:45 – 13:30
Industry Sponsored Session
Henry Hoffmann
14:00 – 15:00
Session 4 — Grand Round
Hernia prevention and prehabilitation
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Henry Hoffmann
Philipp Kirchhoff
Rebecca Kraus, Marteen Simons, Bernhard Dauser (Podium)
Input Talk: Reality check on hernia prevention and perioperative optimizing strategies
Rene Fortelny (Austria)
15:30– 16:30
Session 5 — UpDate on MIS Ventral Hernia Repair
Perparim Limani
Jan Kukleta
I still love my lap IPOM
Walter Brunner (Switzerland)
eTEP – nothing else
Hector Valenzuela (Mexico)
MILOS: Experiment or established?
Ralf Wilke (Germany)
16:30 – 17:30
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)
17:30 – 18:00
Keynote lecture: Bullshit resistance – a guide to critical thinking
Philipp Hübl (Germany)
19:00
Networking Event
Friday, 25th October 2024
8:00 — 08.30
Registration
8:30 – 10:00
Deferred Live Surgery – Ventral hernia repair
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Rene Fortelny
Dietmar Eucker
Robotic TAR
Jonathan Douissard (Switzerland)
Subcostal and infraxyphoidal hernia
David Lourie (USA)
Parastomal hernia repair
Marc Olivier Sauvaign (Switzerland)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00
Deferred Live Surgery — Inguinal Hernia Repair
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Nadia Henriksen
Walter Brunner
Robotic TAPP
David Lourie (USA)
Open Lichtenstein
Johanna Willburger (Switzerland)
Inguinal neurectomy in CPIP
Jan Kukleta (Switzerland)
12:00 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 – 13:15
Industry Sponsored Session
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Henry Hoffmann
13:15 – 14:15
Session 7 — Clinical decision making
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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
14:15 – 14:45
Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:45
Championsleague
Philipp Kirchhoff
Case 1 – Henry Hoffmann (Switzerland)
Case 2 – Fiorenzo Angehrn (Switzerland)
Case 3 – Dietmar Eucker (Switzerland)
Teams
Switzerland: Dietmar Eucker, Jan Kukleta
Europe: Marteen Simons, Bernhard Dauser
America: Hector Valenzuela, Sean Orenstein
15:45 – 16:45
Session 8 – The Special Hernia Case
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Sean Orenstein
Cesare Stabilini
Operating on a colleague
Uli Dietz (Switzerland)
Dealing with multiple recurrences
Mette Willaume (Denmark)
The untreatable hernia
Andrea Pakula (USA)
16:45
Announcement Winner «Industry Rally»
16:50