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Scientific programme

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

 

9th  of October 2025

07:30 – 08:30

Registration

08:30 – 09:00

Opening ceremony

Lecture: Todd Heniford – My instruments in Abdominal All Surgery: The Technique, The Technology, The AI

09:00-10:45

My approach in managing the inguinoscrotal hernia

 

Moderators:

Salvador Morales Conde

Valentin Oprea
  1. Andreas Koch (15 min)
  2. Bernd Stechemesser (15min)
  3. Victor Radu (15min)
  4. Groin pain after surgery – a practical guide to diagnosis and management. David Chen (20 min)

Q&A

  1. Finding hernia understanding the abdominal wall imaging – Eric Pauli (20 min)

10:45 - 11:15 coffee break 

11:15 – 13:45

Ventral hernia

 

Moderators:

 

Yohann Renard

Conrad Ballecer
  1. Surgery in women in childbearing age – Nadia Henriksen (15 min)
  2. Inguinal Hernia and the chronic pelvic pain in women– Mircea Lica (15 min)
  3. My options in ventral hernia repair. When and how? – Salvador Morales Conde (15 min)
  4. Do I need the robot in AWS? Mette Willaume (15min)
  5. Abdominal wall repair between open surgery and HiTech – Eduardo Parra Davila (15 min)

Q&A

  1. I wish I had a robot, but straight sticks worked as well - Alina Prodan(10min)
  2. Probably I could’t do it without robot (10min) - Radu Drasovean
  3. PeTEP - Tibor Kantor (10min)
  4. eTEP, my preferred approach - Mihai Hritcu (10min)

Q&A

13:45 - 15:00 lunch

15:00 – 17:00

Ventral hernia

 

Moderators:


Michael Scott

David Chen
 
    1. Tanaka equation. Why do I need it?  - Eduardo Tanaka (15min)
    2. Preoperative optimization: BTA – Jan Kukleta (15min)
                                                  PPP – Yohann Renard (15 min)
    3. The component separations… or what else?
      • ACS – Yohann Renard (15min)
      • TAR – Yuri Novitsky (15min)
      • Reverse TAR – Miguel Angel Ureña (15 min)
      • Preperitoneal repair – Todd Heniford (15 min)

Q&A

17:00 – 19:00

 

Moderators:

 

Jan Kukleta

Nadia Henriksen

Crazy cases. My morbidity and mortality

    1. Michael Scott (8 min)
    2. Vali Oprea (8 min)
    3. Eduardo Parra Davila (8 min)
    4. Conrad Ballecer (8 min)
    5. Eric Pauli (8 min)
    6. Filip Muysoms (8 min)
    7. Antonio Espinosa de Los Monteros Sanchez (8min)
    8. David Chen (8min)
    9. Todd Heniford (8min)
    10. David Lourie (8min)
    11. Miguel Angel Garcia Ureña (8min)
    12. Victor Radu (8min)

Q&A

19.00 - 21.00

WELCOME COCKTAIL

10th of October 2025

08.30 - 13.00

GROIN&VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR – LIVE SURGERIES

Moderators:

 

Eric Pauli

Eduardo Parra Davila

Todd Heniford – preperitoneal repair

Miguel Angel Garcia Ureña – Madrid TAR

Yohann renard - ACS

Victor Radu - eTEP

David Chen - Lichtenstein

Conrad Ballecer – robo X

13:00 – 14:00 Launch break

14:00 – 16:15

  

 

Moderators:

 

Miguel Angel Ureña

David Lourie

 
  1. Subxiphoidal hernias:
    - Miguel Angel Ureña (15 min)

- David Lourie (15 min)

  1. Lateral Hernias:
    - Conrad Ballecer – robo-TAPP (15min)
    - Victor Radu – eTEP (15 min)
  2. Parastomal Hernia:
    - Sugarbaker Technique – Salvador Morales Conde (15 min)
    - Pauli Technique – Eric Pauli (15 min)
    - robo-Pauli Technique – Filip Muysoms (15 min)

Q&A

16:15 – 16:45 coffee break

16:45-18:15

Re-re-re…re-recurrent hernia. What would you do?!

Moderators:

 

Todd Heniford

Victor Radu
  1. Michael Scott (15 min)
  2. Eduardo Parra Davila (15 min)
  3. Antonio Espinosa De Los Monteros Sanchez (15min)
  4. Valentin Oprea (15 min)

Q&A
 

CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE