Speakers and Live-Surgeons
Prof. Conrad Ballecer
Center for Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Phoenix (USA)
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)
Prof. Dr. David Chen
Clinical Director of Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic,
Senior Consultant Department of Surgery UCLA, Los Angeles (USA)
PD Dr. Bernhard Dauser
MD, PhD, FEBS, MBA
Department of Surgery
St John of God Hospital
Vienna (Austria)
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. Dietmar Eucker
Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral-, Thorax- und Gefässchirurgie
Kompetenzzentrum für Hernienchirurgie
Dr. med. Felix Grieder
Klinikleiter und Chefarzt Viszeral- und Thoraxchirurgie
Kantonsspital Winterthur
PD Dr. Henry Hoffmann
ZweiChirurgen GmbH,
Merian Iselin Klinik, Basel (Switzerland)
Executive Board Member of SAHS (Swiss Association of Hernia Surgery)
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)
Dr. Andreas Koch
Senior Surgical Consultant, President of the Ambulatory Surgery Program of the German Society of General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV), Cottbus (Germany)
Dr. Jan F. Kukleta
President of the Swiss Working Group in Hernia Surgery (SAHC),
Senior Surgical Consultant Hirslanden Clinic, Zurich (Switzerland)
Dr. Rik Osinga
FMH, EBOPRAS
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Center for Musculoskeletal Infections, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Praxis beim Merian Iselin, Switzerland
rik-osinga.ch
Eric M. Pauli, MD
David L. Nahrwold Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery
Director of Endoscopic Surgery
Associate Program Director, Abdominal Wall Surgery Fellowship
Department of Surgery
Dr. Balasubramanian Ramana
MS, DNB, FRCS, FIBC, FACS, FISA
Department of General Surgery
Narayana Hrudayala, RTIICS, Kolkata (India)
Sónia Ribas, MD
FEBS-AWS
General Surgery Department, CH Póvoa de Varzim-Vila do Conde, Portugal
Consultant of General Surgery
Coordinator of the Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit, Portugal
General Surgery Department, Hospital Lusíadas Braga
Responsible of the Abdominal Wall Surgery Group, Portugal
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.
MB ChB LRCP FRCS ChM
Consultant General Surgeon
Clinical Lead; Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Team
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Prof. Dr. Neil Smart
Senior Consultant Surgeon, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter (United Kingdom)
Dr. Stephanie Taha-Mehlitz
Clarunis, Universitäres Bauchzentrum Basel
St. Claraspital und Universitätsspital Basel
Executive Board Member Forum Junger Chirurgie
Maaike Vierstraete
Maaike Vierstraete (FJC)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Wampfler
SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellow
CSH Co-Director
Center for Space and Habitability (CSH)
University of Bern
Prof. Dr. med. Dirk Weyhe
Direktor der Klinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie
Universitätsklinik für Viszeralchirurgie
Pius-Hospital Oldenburg
Universitätsmedizin Oldenburg
Mette Willaume, MD
PhD, F.E.B.S. AWR
Consultant at Digestive Disease Center, surgical dept.
Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen
Denmark