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Programme


  • Topics

    "THE NEW CHALLENGES FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE 21ST CENTURY"

    Selected challenges.

    1. SEMINAL TECHNIQUES. TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS RELEASE (TAR)

    2. ROBOTIC SURGERY

    3. EDUCATION

    4. TRANSVERSALITY WITH OTHER SPECIALTIES

    5. PREVENTION

    6. ANATOMY “EXPANSION” (CROSSOVER)

    7. PATIENT OPTIMIZATION

    8. MIS IN EMERGENCIES

  • Monday, May 1st

     08:00 - 18:00
    CADAVERIC HERNIA MASTERCLASS
    (Only registered Participants)
    Takes place in Marina h10 Hotel, Barcelona
  • Tuesday, May 2nd

     08:00 - 19:00
    CADAVERIC HERNIA MASTERCLASS
    (Only registered Participants)
    Takes place in Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona city
     14:00  - 18:00
    LLEVANT 1
    UEMS EXAMINATION
    Meliá Sitges Hotel
  • Wednesday, May 3rd

    09:00 - 13:00
    Llevant 1
    UEMS EXAMINATION
    Meliá Sitges Hotel
     13:00 - 20:00
    REGISTRATION
    13:00 - 14:30
    Tramuntana
    EXHIBITON
    14:30 - 15:00
    Auditorium

    SEMINAL TECHNIQUES
    LECTURE: POSTERIOR COMPONENT SEPARATION VIA TRANSVERSUS
    ABDOMINIS MUSCLE RELEASE: THE TAR PROCEDURE

    Presenters:
    Salvador Morales Conde (Spain) and Manuel López Cano (Spain)
    Speaker: Yuri Novitsky (USA)

    15:00 - 17:00
    Auditorium
    SEMINAL TECHNIQUES
    TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS RELEASE (TAR)
    Chairs:
    Yuri Novitsky (USA), Ralph Lorenz (Germany), Lars Jorgenssen (Denmark)

    - How TAR has changed my technical indication.
    Speaker:
    Andrew de Beaux (UK)

    - TAR results in the registries. Real World Evidence.
    Speaker: Frederk Helgstrand (Denmark)

    - Alternatives to recurrence after TAR.
    Speaker: Javier Lopez Monclus (Spain)

    - Is Robotic TAR Better?
    Speaker: David Lourie (USA)

    - When TAR is not enough - What should I do?
    Speaker: Todd Heniford (USA)

    - What is the current place for the anterior components separation.
    Speaker: Nadia Henriksen (Denmark)
    17:00 - 17:30Tramuntana COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION & POSTER SESSION 1

    E-POSTERS SESSION 1

    Chairs: Montserrat Juvany (Spain) and Carlos Hoyuela (Spain)


     17:30 - 18:00
    Auditorium
    SEMINAL TECHNIQUES
    LECTURE: EDUCATION, ACADEMIC SURGEON-SOCIAL NETWORKS

    Presenters:
    Salvador Morales Conde (Spain) and Manuel López Cano (Spain)
    Speaker:
    Julio Mayol (Spain)
      18:30 - 19:00
    Auditorium
    OPENING CEREMONY

    Speakers: Salvador Morales Conde (Spain). Congress Co-Chairman
    José Antonio Pereira (Spain). Spanish National Abdominal Wall Chapter Coordinator. (AEC)
    Manuel López Cano (Spain). Congress Chairman.
    Andrew de Beaux (UK). EHS General Secretary.
    Filip Muysoms (Belgium). EHS President

  • Thursday, May 4th

     07:00 - 19:00
    REGISTRATION
    07:40 - 08:00
    Auditorium

    ROBOTIC SURGERY
    LECTURE: SEARCHING FOR A BETTER DEFINITION OF ROBOTIC SURGERY: IS IT DIFFERENT FROM LAPAROSCOPY?

    Presenters:
    Salvador Morales Conde (Spain) and Manuel López Cano (Spain)
    Speaker:
    Yoav Mintz (Israel)

    08:00 - 09:00
    Auditorium
    ROBOTIC SURGERY
    FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR ROBOTICS. WHAT DOES THE INDUSTRY OFFER US IN TERMS OF TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGY?

    Chairs:
    Filip Muysoms (Belgium), Dina Podolsky (USA), Conrad Ballacer (USA)

    -Different robotic platform. Pros and cons. A surgeon perspective.
    Speakers: Luis Tallon (Spain), Aali Sheen (UK), Guillaume Passot (France)

    -Alternatives with robotic arms.
    Speaker:
    Amir Szold (Israel)

    - Joining robotic to AI and image guided surgery.
    Speaker:
    Eduardo Parra Davila (USA)
    09:00 - 09:30
    Tramuntana
    COFFEE BREAK, EXHIBITION & E-POSTER SESSION 2

    E-POSTERS SESSION 2

    Chairs: Luis Blazquez Hernándo (Spain) and Mireia Verdaguer Tremolosa (Spain)

     09:30 - 11:00
    Auditorium
    ROBOTIC SURGERY
    ROBOTICS TRAINING FROM THE SURGEON
    Chair:
    David Lourie (USA), Sergio Roll (Brazil), Bernd Stechemesser (Germany)

    - How a resident should prepare to perform robotic surgery.
    Speaker: Ioannis Gerogiannis (UK/Greece)
    - I am an expert in laparoscopy, how do I train for robotic surgery
    Speaker: Conrad Ballacer (USA)
    - I do basic robotic surgery. How do I train in complex cases?
    Speaker: Filip Muysoms (Belgium)
    - I have no robot and no prospects of having one. Does it have an impact on my daily practice?
    Speaker: Michael Scott (UK)
      09:30 - 11:00
    Garbí 1+2
    EDUCATION
    SOCIAL MEDIA DATA AND ACADEMIC JOURNALS IN THE DISSEMINATION OF SURGICAL KNOWLEDGE. PUBLISH OR PERISH OR POST OR PERISH?
    Chair:
    Maciej Pawlak (Poland), Hakan Gök (Turkey) and Barbora East (Czech Republic)

    - The view from a journal editor.
    Speaker: Giampiero Campanelli (Italy)

    - The view from a journal editor and social media user.
    Speaker: Neil Smart (UK)

    - The view from a IHC/Facebook.
    Speaker: Brian Jacob (USA)

    - The view from SoMe4Surgey/Twitter.
    Speaker: Julio Mayol (Spain)

    - The view from a surgeon with interest in abdominal wall surgery.
    Speaker: Gina Adrales (USA)
      09:30 - 11:00
    Llevant 1 + 2
    ORAL SESSION 1

    Chairs: Victor Rodrigues Gonçalves (Spain) and Mireia Verdaguer Tremolosa (Spain)

     09:30 - 11:00
    Llevant 4
    ORAL SESSION 2

    Chairs: Carlos Hoyuela (Spain) and Pilar Hernández Granados (Spain)

     11:00 - 13:00
    Auditorium

    ROBOTIC SURGERY
    INDICATIONS FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY
    Chair:
    Gina Adrales (USA), Victor Radu (Romania), Ramana Balasubramanian (India)

    - Inguinal hernia.
    Speaker: Mireia Verdaguer (Spain)

    - Primary ventral hernia.
    Speaker: Shirin Towfight (USA)

    - Incisional hernia.
    Speaker:  Gabriel Arevalo (USA)

    - Atypical hernias.
    Speaker:  Diego Cuccurullo (Italy)

    - Hiatal hernias
    Speaker: Grigoris Chatzimavroudis (Greece)

    - Abdobinal Wall Emergencies
    Speaker: Flavio Malcher (USA)
    11:00 - 11:30
    Garbí 1+2

    EDUCATION
    LECTURE: THE FUTURE OF ABDOMINAL WALL SURGERY LEARNING/ TEACHING
    Presenters:
    Salvador Morales Conde (Spain) and Manuel López Cano (Spain)
    Speaker: Knut Borch (Norway)

    11:30 - 13:00
    Garbí 1+2

    TRANSVERSALITY WITH OTHER SPECIALTIES
    HERNIA CONCOMITANT WITH OTHER SPECIALTIES IN ELECTIVE SETTING
    Chair:
    Marc Miserez (Belgium), Maciej Smietanski (Poland)

    a. Ventral/inguinal hernia and morbid obesity

    AW Surgeon point of view.
    Speaker: Henry Hoffmann(Switzerland)
    Obesity Surgeon point of view.
    Speaker: Amador García Ruiz de Gordejuela (Spain)


    b. Ventral/Inguinal hernia and colon cancer

    AW Surgeon point of view.
    Speaker: Kristian K Jensen (Denmark)
    Colorectal surgeon point of view.
    Speaker: Tero Rautio (Finland)

    c. Concomitant Ventral/Inguinal hernia and prostatic/urologic surgery

    AW Surgeon point of view.
    Speaker:
    Maarten Simons (Netherlands)

    d. Ventral/Inguinal hernia and vascular surgery

    Abdominal Wall surgeon´s view.

    Speaker: Ramana Balasubramanian (India)

    e. Ventral/inguinal hernia and transplant surg

    Abdominal Wall and transplant surgeon´s view.
    Speaker: Frederik Berrevoet (Belgium)

    11:00 - 12:30
    Llevant 1 + 2
    ORAL SESSION 3

    Chairs: Luis Tallón Aguilar (Spain), Juan Manuel Suárez Grau (Spain) and Pilar Martínez López (Spain)

    11:00 - 12:30
    Llevant 4
    ORAL SESSION 4

    Chairs:
    Juan Bellido (Spain) and Pilar Hernández Granados (Spain)
    13:00 - 13:30
    Auditorium
    EHS DEFINITION OF COMPLEX INCISIONAL HERNIA

    Steering committee:
    Barbora East (Czech Republic), Andrew de Beaux (UK), Ferdinando Agresta (Italy), Hana Charvátová (Czech Republic), Sara Capoccia Giovanni (Italy), Alberto Sartori (Italy), Sónia Ribas (Portugal), Emanuele Botteri (Italy), Mauro Podda (Italy) and Giulia Montori (Italy)
    Chairs: Barbora East (Czech Republic) and Manuel López Cano (Spain)

    Introduction and defining the variables
    Speaker:
    Andrew de Beaux (UK)

    Round one outcomes
    Speaker:
    Sónia Ribas (Portugal)

    Round 2 and 3 outcomes
    Speaker:
    Sara Capoccia Giovanni (Italy)

    What makes an incisional hernia ‘complex’
    Speaker:
    Giulia Montori (Italy)

    Discussion
    13:30 - 15:00
    Tramuntana
    LUNCH, EXHIBITION & INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
    15:00 - 15:20
    Auditorium

    ROBOTIC SURGERY
    CLINICAL TRIALS DESIGN, SCIENTIFIC RIGOR, AND HIGHER-LEVEL EVIDENCE IN SURGERY

    Presenters: Salvador Morales Conde (Spain) and Manuel López Cano (Spain)
    Speaker: Kamal MF Itani (USA)

    15:20 - 17:00
    Auditorium

    ROBOTIC SURGERY
    OUTCOMES AND COMPLICATIONS IN/WITH ROBOTIC SURGERY
    Chair:
    Archana Ramaswamy (USA), Sonia Ribas (Portugal) and Mette Willaume (Denmark)

    - Intraoperative complications. How do I solve them?
    Speaker: Vedra Augenstein (USA)

    - I must convert robotic surgery. To what technique?
    Speaker: Dina Podolsky (USA)

    - Inguinal recurrence after robotic surgery. robot again?
    Speaker: David Chen (USA)

    - Ventral/incisional recurrence after robotic surgery. Robot again?
    Speaker: Yuri Novitsky (USA)

    - Does the ergonomics of the surgeon improve or does it only change the type of physical requirements, appearing new problems?
    Speaker: Archana Ramaswamy (USA)

    - Should we have separate registries for robotic surgery?
    Speaker: Ferdinand Kockerling (Germany)
    15:00 - 17:00
    Llevant 4

    ORAL SESSION 5

    Chairs: Julio Gómez Menchero (Spain) and Alejandro Barvo-Salvá (Spain)

    15:00 - 16:45
    Llevant 1 + 2

    VIDEO SESSION 1

    Chairs: Juan Bellido (Spain) and Juan Manuel Suarez Grau (Spain)

    15:30 - 17:00
    Garbí 1+2

    EHS Guidelines. Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

    Chairs: Cesare Stabilini (Italy) and David Sanders (UK)

    EHS guidelines. Current situation and future plans.

    Speaker: Cesare Stabilini (Italy) - Secretary for Science EHS board

    Incisional Guidelines Highlights. New Recommendations!

    Coordinators of the Incisional Guidelines working group: David Sanders (UK) and Maciej Pawlak (Poland)

    Speakers: Frederik Berrevoet (Belgium), Nadia Henriksen (Denmark), Thomas Whitehead-Clark (UK) and Andrew de Beaux (UK)


    Updates of the HerniaSurge Groin hernia Guidelines. New Recommendations!

    Coordinators of the HerniaSurge Collaboration: Cesare Stabilini (Italy) and Maarten Simons (Netherlands)

    New Guidelines for management of Scrotal Hernia

    Speaker: Hanh Tran (Australia) - on behalf of the HerniaSurge Collaboration
    15:30 - 16:15
    Catalunya

    JAWS WORKSHOP*
    WHY PUBLISH IN A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL AND WHAT IS THE JOURNAL OF ABDOMINAL WALL SURGERY (JAWS)?

    Chairs: Simon Hoggart (Partner Journal Development Manager) and Manuel López Cano (Chief Editor)

    Overview of publishing and peer review

    What is the Journal of Abdominal Wall Surgery (JAWS) and what are the aims of the journal?
    Interview with Editor-in-Chief Professor Manuel López Cano Interviews with Executive Editors
    Q & A
    *Limited space – 25 people. Registration required (free).
    17:00 - 18:00
    Llevant 1 + 2

    ROBOTIC SURGERY
    BEST ROBOT VIDEO SESSION

    Chairs: Provicencia García Pastor (Spain) and Luis Tallón Aguilar (Spain)

    18:00 - 19:00 INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES
  • Friday, May 5th

     07:30 - 19:00
    REGISTRATION
    08:30 - 10:30
    Auditorium

    PREVENTION
    INCISIONAL HERNIA PREVENTION
    Chair:
    Nadia Henriksen (Denmark), Carlos Magalhaes (Portugal), Gabrielle Van Ramshorst (Netherlands)

    - The importance of prevention in our specialty and other specialties.
    Speaker: Benjamin Poulose (USA)

    - Risk factors and prognostic scores of incisional hernia.
    Speaker: John Fischer (USA)

    - Prevention with permanent mesh in midline laparotomy.
    Speaker: Carlos Olona (Spain)

    - Prevention of other laparotomies outside the midline.
    Speaker: Miguel Angel Garcia Ureña (Spain)

    - Prevention in transplant surgery.
    Speaker: Frederik Berrevoet (Belgium)

    - Prevention in stoma closure.
    Speaker: Umberto Braccale (Italy)

    - Prevention in parastomal hernia.
    Speaker: Elisa J Mäkäräinen-Uhlbäck (Finland)

    - The role of absorbable meshes in prevention.
    Speaker: William Hope (USA)

    08:30 - 10:30
    Garbí 1+2

    PATIENT OPTIMIZATION
    PATIENT’S OPTIMIZATION. COMPULSORY?
    Chair:
    Hobart Harris (USA), Jan Kukleta (Switzerland) and Davide Lomanto (Singapore)

    - Risk factors for complications and recurrences. Are apps useful?
    Speaker: Vedra Augenstein (USA)

    - How to manage obesity?
    Speaker: Aali Sheen (UK)

    - How to prevent SSI?
    Speaker: Johanna Osterberg (Sweden)

    - Smoking cessation. More important than it seems?
    Speaker: David Sanders (UK)

    - How to optimize the prevention of chronic pain
    Speaker: Giampiero Campanelli (Italy)

    - Optimization. Should be ultimately compulsory?
    Speaker: Todd Heniford (USA)
     08:30 - 10:10
    Llevant 1 + 2

    VIDEO SESSION 2

    Chairs: Mireia Verdaguer Tremolosa (Spain) and Alejandro Barvo-Salvá (Spain)

      08:30 - 10:15
    Llevant 4

    ORAL SESSION 6

    Chairs: Victor Rodrigues Gonçalves (Spain) and Juan Manuel Suarez Grau (Spain)

      10:30 - 11:00
    Tramuntana
    COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION & POSTER SESSION 3

    E-POSTERS SESSION 3

    Chairs: Luis Blazquez Hernándo (Spain) and Montserrat Juavany (Spain)


     11:00 - 12:30
    Auditorium

    PREVENTION
    LAPAROTOMY CLOSURE IN THE PREVENTION OF INCISIONAL HERNIA
    Chairs:
    William Hope (USA), Guillaume Passot (France)

    - Implementation of the correct closure in midline laparotomy.
    Speaker: Jose Antonio Pereira (Spain)

    - Only the correct closure in midline laparotomy serves to prevent?
    Speaker: Rene Fortelny (Austria)

    - What should be the correct closure in non-midline laparotomy.
    Speaker: Hobart Harris (USA)

    - How to close in minimally invasive surgery. Trocars, assistance incision.
    Speaker: Cesare Stabilini (Italy)

    - How to close a burst abdomen. Do the same rules apply as for the elective closure?
    Speaker: Britta Tolstrup (Denmark)
     11:00 - 13:00
    Garbí 1+2

    JAWS SESSION
    LECTURE: MINIMAL INVASIVE ACCESS TO HERNIA EMERGENCIES. ARE WE READY?

    Presenters: Salvador Morales Conde (Spain) and Manuel López Cano (Spain)
    Speaker: Andrea Balla (Italy)

    Presentation of 4 papers published in the journal:
    Chairs:
    Salvador Morales Conde (Spain) and Manuel López Cano (Spain)

    1. Protocol for EHS Rapid Guideline: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, GRADE Assessment, and European Recommendations on Parastomal Hernia Prevention.

    Speaker: Stavros Antoniou (Greece)

    2. Description of the Current Da Vinci® Training Pathway for Robotic Abdominal Wall Surgery by the European Hernia Society.

    Speaker: Maaike Vierstraete (Belgium)

    3. Open Emergent Groin Hernia Repair: Anterior or Posterior Approach?.

    Speaker: Victor Rodrigues (Spain)

    4. Closure of Iterative Laparotomy in Patients With Previous Mesh Reinforcement a Cohorts’ Study. Short-Term Results

    Speaker: Alejandro Bravo-Salvá (Spain)

    11:00 - 12:30
    Llevant 1 + 2

    BEST VIDEO (WITHOUT ROBOTS)

    Chairs
    : Juan Bellido (Spain) and Julio Gómez Menchero (Spain)

    11:00 - 12:30
    Llevant 4

    ORAL SESSION 7

    Chairs: Montserrat Juvany (Spain), Rafael Villalobos Mori (Spain) and Pilar Martínez López (Spain)

    12:30 - 13:00
    Auditorium

    PREVENTION
    LECTURE: PREVENTION, THE PAST AND FUTURE.

    Presenters:
    Salvador Morales Conde (Spain), Manuel López Cano (Spain) and Jose Antonio Pereira (Spain)
    Speaker: Hans Jeekel (Netherlands)

    13:00 - 15:00
    Tramuntana
    LUNCH, EXHIBITION & INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
    14:00 - 15:00
    Auditorium

    GENERAL ASSEMBLY (closed session)

    15:00 - 16:30
    Auditorium

    ANATOMY “EXPANSION” (CROSSOVER)
    TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ANATOMY

    Chairs: Yohann Renard (France), Rodrigo Galhego (Brazil), José Antonio Pereira (Spain) and Davide Lomanto (Singapore).

    - Extended extraperitoneal approach. The origin.
    Speaker: Jorge Daes (Colombia)

    - Indications for extended extraperitoneal approaches.
    Speaker: Juan Bellido (Spain)

    - When to associate a TAR to an extended extraperitoneal approach.
    Speaker: Julio Gomez Menchero (Spain)

    - Complications of the extended extraperitoneal approach.
    Speaker: Wolfgang Reinpold (Germany)

    - Extended extraperitoneal approach. Robot or conventional laparoscopy?
    Speaker: Victor Radu (Romania)

    - Is there a risk of overtreatment of patients with the extended extraperitoneal technique?
    Speaker: Pilar Hernández Granados (Spain)

    15:00 - 17:00
    Garbí 1+2

    BJS SESSION
    BJS LECTURE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN (ACADEMIC) ENDOSCOPIC SURGEON?
    Chairs:
    Manuel López Cano (Spain) and Andrew de Beaux (UK)
    Speaker: Eduardo M. Targarona (Spain)

    Presentation of 7 selected papers
    Chairs:
    Manuel López Cano (Spain) and Andrew de Beaux (UK)

    Nationwide analysis of short-term outcomes after open vs. Robot-assisted repair of ventral hernia

    Speaker: N. Henriksen (Denmark)

    Incidence and risk factors of metachronous contralateral inguinal hernia development up to 25 years after unilateral inguinal hernia repair: a single centre cohort study.

    Speaker: R. Glorieux (Belgium)

    Development and Implantation of 3D anatomically tailored polypropylene mesh for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair designed on the basis of CT images (The Ilam Study)

    Speaker: M. Śmietański (Poland)

    The use of a visceral protective layer prevents fistula development in open abdomen therapy – results from the EHS open abdomen registry

    Speaker: S. Schaaf (Germany)

    DISS class a meshes permit biomechanically strong reconstructions which are durable after a 3 year follow up

    Speaker: F. Kallinowski (Germany)

    Laparoscopic intracorporeal rectus aponeuroplasty (LIRA) technique versus intraperitoneal onlay mesh closing the defect (IPOM plus) for ventral hernia repair: comparative results at medium follow-up

    Speaker: J. Gómez Menchero (Spain)

    Comparison of endoscopic enhanced-view totally extraperitoneal prosthetic (ETEP) versus open rives-stoppa repair as treatment of midline abdominal wall hernias with rectus diastasis: single-centre surgical cohort

    Speaker: S. Kinet (Belgium)

    15:00 - 16:00
    Llevant 4

    ORAL SESSION 8

    Chairs: Alejandro Barvo-Salvá (Spain) and Provicencia García Pastor (Spain)

    15:30 - 17:00
    Llevant 1 + 2
    BEST ORALS

    Chairs: Carlos Hoyuela (Spain) and Pilar Martínez López (Spain)

    16:30 - 17:00
    Auditorium

    ANATOMY “EXPANSION” (CROSSOVER)
    LECTURE: DO IPOM APPROACHES STILL HAVE VALUE OR SHOULD WE ABANDON THEM?

    Presenter: Manuel López Cano (Spain)
    Speaker: Salvador Morales Conde (Spain)

    17:00 - 19:00

    PREVENTION
    INDUSTY ACTIVITIES

Important Dates


  • Abstract submission opens
    02 november 2022
  • Abstract submission closes
    January 31st 2023
  • Abstract notification
    From February 2023
  • Early bird registration deadline
    8th March 2023
  • Congress begins
    3 may 2023

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