Speakers
Dr. Vedra Augenstein, MD
Atrium Health General & Complex Abdominal Surgery, Charlotte (USA)
Executive Board Member American Hernia Society (AHS)
Dr. med. 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)
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
Dr. Eva B. Deerenberg
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
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. Dietmar Eucker
Senior physician
Dep. f. General and Visceral Surgery
Center of Reference for Hernia Surgery
Kantonsspital Baselland (Switzerland)
F.E.B.S. Abdominal Wall Surgery
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)
Dr. med. Frederik Helgstrand
MD, DMSc. Ass. prof. FACS
Head of upper GI surgery and AWR
President Danish Hernia Database
Zealand University Hospital, Køge
Prof. Dr. Todd Heniford
MD, FACS
Professor and Director Endeavor Hernia Center Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Dr. Lucy Hinton
PD Dr. Henry Hoffmann
ZweiChirurgen GmbH,
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
President of SAHC (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)
Prof. Dr. Philipp Kirchhoff
ZweiChirurgen GmbH,
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
Executive Board Member of Swiss-MIS (Swiss Minimally Invasive Surgery)
PD Dr. Gernot Köhler
Primarius for surgery at Klinikum Rohrbach Head of Surgical Department (Austria)
President of the Austrian Hernia Society
Dr. Jan F. Kukleta
Honorary President of the Swiss Working Group in Hernia Surgery (SAHC),
Senior Surgical Consultant Hirslanden Clinic, Zurich (Switzerland)
Prof. Davide Lomanto
Senior Consultant, Department of Surgery, Alexandra Hospital
Dr. Björn Mück
Oberarzt der Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral-, Thorax- und Kinderchirurgie
Leiter Hernienzentrum Kempten – Allgäu
Dr. Debora Nowakowski
ZweiChirurgen GmbH
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
Surgical consultant F.E.B.S. Abdominal Wall Surgery
Prof. Yuri Novitzky
Director, Comprehensive Hernia Center
Division of Abdominal Wall Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center
New York
USA
Dr. Anders Olsson
PD Dr. Marc-Olivier Sauvain
Médecin chef de service
Chargé de cours UNIL
Spécialiste FMH en chirurgie et chirurgie viscérale
Réseau hospitalier neuchâtelois
Dr. Saskia Urbani
Ärztin Hernienzentrum Köln, Deutschland (resident surgeon Hernia Center Cologne, Germany)
Deutsche Herniengesellschaft (German Hernia Society)
Beirat junge Chirurg*innen (Advisory Board Young Surgeons)
Wing Weiterbildung (Wing Education)
European Hernia Society
Young Surgeons Wing
