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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Abdominal Wall Surgery Conference

📅 9th of October 2025
07:30 – 08:30
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
Opening ceremony
Lecture: Todd Heniford – My Instruments in Abdominal Wall Surgery: The Technique, The Technology, The AI
09:00 – 10:45
My approach in managing the inguinoscrotal hernia
Moderators:
Salvador Morales Conde, Dr. Oprea Valentin
  • Andreas Koch (15 min)
  • Bernd Stechemesser (15 min)
  • Victor Radu (15 min)
  • Groin pain after surgery – a practical guide to diagnosis and management. David Chen (20 min)
Q&A
  • Finding hernia understanding the abdominal wall imaging – Eric Pauli (20 min)
10:45 – 11:15
☕ Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:45
Ventral hernia I
Moderators:
Eduardo Parra-Davila, Conrad Ballecer
  • Surgery in women in childbearing age – Nadia Henriksen (15 min)
  • Inguinal Hernia and the chronic pelvic pain in women – Mircea Lica (15 min)
  • My options in ventral hernia repair. When and how? – Salvador Morales Conde (15 min)
  • Do I need the robot in AWS? Mette Willaume (15 min)
  • Abdominal wall repair between open surgery and HiTech – Eduardo Parra-Davila (15 min)
Q&A
  • I wish I had a robot, but straight sticks worked as well - Alina Prodan (10 min)
  • Probably I could't do it without robot - Radu Drasovean (10 min)
  • PeTEP - Tibor Kantor (10 min)
  • eTEP, my preferred approach - Mihai Hritcu (10 min)
Q&A
13:45 – 15:00
🍽️ Lunch
15:00 – 17:00
Ventral hernia II
Moderators:
Michael Scott, David Chen
  • Tanaka equation. Why do I need it? – Eduardo Tanaka (15 min)
  • Preoperative optimization: BTA – Jan Kukleta (15 min)
    PPP – Yohann Renard (15 min)
  • The component separations… or what else?
    • ACS – Yohann Renard (15 min)
    • TAR – Yuri Novitsky (15 min)
    • Reverse TAR – Miguel Angel Ureña (15 min)
    • Preperitoneal repair – Todd Heniford (15 min)
Q&A
17:00 – 17:30
☕ Coffee Break
17:30 – 19:30
Crazy cases. My morbidity and mortality
Moderators:
Jan Kukleta, Filip Muysoms
  • Michael Scott (8 min)
  • Vali Oprea (8 min)
  • Eduardo Parra-Davila (8 min)
  • Conrad Ballecer (8 min)
  • Eric Pauli (8 min)
  • Filip Muysoms (8 min)
  • Antonio Espinosa de Los Monteros Sanchez (8 min)
  • David Chen (8 min)
  • Todd Heniford (8 min)
  • David Lourie (8 min)
  • Miguel Angel Garcia Ureña (8 min)
  • Victor Radu (8 min)
Q&A
20:00 – 22:00
🥂 WELCOME COCKTAIL
📅 10th of October 2025
08:00 – 08:30
☕ Morning Coffee
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
  • 10:30 – 11:00
    ☕ Coffee without a break
  • Victor Radu - eTEP
  • David Chen - Lichtenstein Repair
  • Andreas Koch - Schouldice Repair
13:00 – 14:00
🍽️ Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:15
Atypical defects
Moderators:
Miguel Angel Ureña, David Lourie
  • Subxiphoidal hernias:
    - Miguel Angel Ureña (15 min)
    - David Lourie (15 min)
  • Lateral Hernias:
    - Conrad Ballecer – robo-TAPP (15 min)
    - Victor Radu – eTEP (15 min)
  • 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
  • Michael Scott (15 min)
  • Eduardo Parra-Davila (15 min)
  • Antonio Espinosa De Los Monteros Sanchez (15 min)
  • Valentin Oprea (15 min)
Q&A
⛔ CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE