Scientific Programme 2025
Thursday, 23 October 2025
8:30 – 9:00
Registration
9:15 – 10:15
Session 1 – Swiss Young Surgeons Session
Johanna Willburger
Do’s and dont’s in ventral hernia repair – Eva Deerenberg
Preventing complications in inguinal hernia repair – Dietmar Eucker
Becoming an abdominal wall surgeon – Davide Lomanto
10:15 – 11:15
Session 2 – The female hernia
Eva Deerenberg
Iliana Geogloman
Same but different: female hernias – Vedra Augenstein (USA)
How to treat female ventral hernias in child-bearing age – Sandra Kaufmann (Switzerland)
Inguinal varicosis, Nuck cyst and intraoperative round ligament management – tba
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45
Session 3 – Important UpDates
Yuri Novitsky
Alexis Theodorou
Best three hernia papers in 2025: my choice – Walter Brunner
Mesh technology: where are we 2025 – Uli Dietz
UpDate reimbursement system for hernia surgery in Switzerland – Marc-Oliver Sauvaign
12:45 – 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 – 14:00
Lunch Symposium
14:00 – 15:00
Session 4 – Grand Round – Diastasis recti
Henry Hoffmann
Philipp Kirchhoff
Podium: Jan Kukleta, Anders Olson, Vedra Augenstein, Eva Deerenberg, Gernot Köhler
Input Talk – Treatment concepts of diastasis recti — Anders Olson, Sweden
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30
Session 5 – Words of caution
Davide Lomanto
Jonathan Douissard
Disasters from component separation – Todd Heniford
Risk of hernia overtreatment in the area of robotic surgery – Frederik Helgstrand (Denmark)
I learned it from Youtube – Knut Borch (Norway)
16:30 – 17:30
Session 6 – When the shit hits the fan
Björn Mück
Jan Kukleta
Case 1 – Jonathan Douissard (Switzerland)
Case 2 – Gernot Köhler
Case 3 – Alexis Theodorou (Greece)
17:24 – 18:00
Keynote Lecture
19:00
Networking Event
Friday, 24 october 2025
8:30 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 10:30
Deferred Life Surgery part I
Walter Brunner
Gernot Köhler
How to approach the scrotal hernia – Jonathan Douissard
Inguinal mesh removal – Vedra Augenstein
Parastomal hernia repair / EACS – Gernot Köhler
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Deferred Life Surgery part II
Todd Heniford
Jan Kukleta
Robotic flank hernia repair – Björn Mück
TAR – Yuri Novitsky
Ventral TAPP – Sandra Kaufmann
12:30 – 13:00
Lunch break
13:00 – 13:30
Lunch symposium
13:30 – 14:30
Session 7 – Clinical decision making
Anders Olsson
Vedra Augenstein
Limits of robotic approach in AWR – Yuri Novitsky
Management of chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP) – Debora Nowakowski
When all bridges are burned: bail out procedures in AWR – Todd Heniford
15:15 – 16:15
Championsleague
Philipp Kirchhoff
Team Switzerland: Dietmar Eucker, Sandra Kaufmann
Team Europe: Frederik Helgstrand
Team Asia-America: Davide Lomanto
Case 1 – Iliana Geogloman (UK)
Case 2 – Lucy Hinton (USA)
Case 3 – Johanna Willburger (Switzerland)
16:15 – 16:45
Best Video Award
Moderation & Jury:
Knut Borch
Marc-Olivier Sauvain
Presentation of best three videos
16:45