Speakers and Live-Surgeons
Nasra Alam
Senior Surgical registrar at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Surgical trainee representative at British Hernia Society
Dr. Vedra Augenstein, MD
Atrium Health General & Complex Abdominal Surgery, Charlotte (USA)
Executive Board Member American Hernia Society (AHS)
Dr. Knut Borch
Alfred surgery
An industry-independent educational plattform for surgery
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, University Hospital of North Norway
Secretary of the Advisory Committee for Education (European Hernia Society)
Dr. Walter Brunner
Head of Surgical Department
Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Rorschach (Switzerland)
Executive Board Member of SAHS (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)
Dr. Alfred Allen E. Buenafe
Executive Director
Philippine Center for Advanced Surgery
Cardinal Santos Medical Center
Manila (Philippines)
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dietz
Senior Surgical Consultant, Solothurn / Olten (Switzerland)
Executive Board Member of Swiss-MIS (Swiss Minimally Invasive Surgery)
Executive Board Member of SAHC (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)
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. Barbora East
Dr. Dietmar Eucker
Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral-, Thorax- und Gefässchirurgie
Kompetenzzentrum für Hernienchirurgie
Prof. Dr. René Fortelny
Past President of the Austrian Hernia Society (AHC),
Head of Surgical Department Wilhelminen-Hospital, Vienna (Austria)
www.fortelny.at
Executive Board Member European Hernia Society
Dr. Todd Heniford, MD, FACS
Atrium Health General & Complex Abdominal Surgery, Charlotte (USA)
Director, Carolinas Hernia Institute at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
PD Dr. Henry Hoffmann
ZweiChirurgen GmbH,
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
Executive Board Member of SAHS (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)
Prof. Dr. Lars N. Jørgensen
Københavns Universitet
Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Prof. Dr. Philipp Kirchhoff
ZweiChirurgen GmbH,
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
Board member of SAHC (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)
Executive Board Member of Swiss-MIS (Swiss Minimally Invasive Surgery)
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Köckerling
Head of Surgical Department
Vivantes Hospital Berlin-Spandau, Berlin (Germany)
President of the Deutsche Herniengesellschaft (DHG)
Executive Board Member European Hernia Society
Dr. Jan F. Kukleta
President of the Swiss Working Group in Hernia Surgery (SAHC),
Senior Surgical Consultant Hirslanden Clinic, Zurich (Switzerland)
Dr. Ralph Lorenz
Vice-president of the German Hernia Society (DHG)
Senior Surgical Consultant, Clinic 3 Chirurgen, Berlin (Germany)
Executive Board Member European Hernia Society
Dr. Filip Muysoms
Head of Surgical Department
Maria Middelares Hospital, Gent (Belgium)
President of the European Hernia Society (EHS)
Dr. Marijana Ninkovic
Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery,
Center of Operative Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck (AUT)
Vice President Young Surgeons Austria
Dr. Jaideep Raj Rao
Executive Board Member Asia-Pacific Hernia Society
Prof. Dr. Yohann Renard
PD Dr. Marc-Olivier Sauvain
Médecin chef de service
Chargé de cours UNIL
Spécialiste FMH en chirurgie et chirurgie viscérale
Réseau hospitalier neuchâtelois
Dr. Michael H Scott M.D.
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr. Stephanie Taha-Mehlitz
Clarunis, Universitäres Bauchzentrum Basel
St. Claraspital und Universitätsspital Basel
Executive Board Member Forum Junger Chirurgie
Dr. Martin Wiese
Gesundheitszentrum Kelkheim, Germany
www.chirurgie-hessen.de
Executive Member German Hernia Society
Dr. Konstantinos Zarras
Chefarzt der Klinik für Viszeral-, Minimalinvasive und Onkologische Chirurgie
Marien Hospital — Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus — Düsseldorf