Programme

Time scheduled in the programme corresponds to the time CEST

13:30 - 14:30	Session 1: Best oral paper Moderators: Cesare Stabilini (Italy) René Fortenly (Austria)
13:30 13:38 13:45 - 13:53 14:00 - 14:08	*"Abdominal wound dehiscence is dangerous: a nationwide study of 14,169 patients undergoing elective open resection for colonic cancer"* Kristian Kiim Jensen (Denmark) Comments: José Antonio Pereira (Spain) *"Truncal function after abdominal wall reconstruction via transversus abdominis muscle release (tar) for large incisional hernias"* Valentin Oprea (Romania) Comments: Yohann Renard (France) *"Robotic repair of primary uncomplicated midline ventral hernias"* Karen Chang (USA) Comments: Rossana Berta (Italy)
14:15 - 14:30	B R E A K
14:30	Opening Ceremony – "Time of crisis – Time to join forces" Welcome by EHS President – Agneta Montgomery (Sweden) Welcome by EHS General Secretary – Salvador Morales-Conde (Spain) Welcome by AHS President – Benjamin Poulose (USA) Welcome by APHS President – Rolf Hartung (UAE) *"Covid and Hernia Surgery"* Cesare Stabilini (Italy)
15:00 – 16:30 15:00 – 15:08 15:10 – 15:18 15:20 – 15:28 15:30 – 15:38	Session 2: Update in Complex Hernia Surgery Moderators: Diego Cuccurullo (Italy), Flavio Malcher (USA) *Basic principles of Anatomy that we should know for complex AWR?* José Antonio Pereira (Spain) *Defining what is complex in Hernia Surgery* John Fischer (USA) *Surgical techniques for complex AWR* Yuri Novitsky (USA) *Alternatives prosthetic materials for complex AWR* Frederik Berrevoet (Belgium)
15:40 – 16:30	Live Q & A Session
16:30 - 17:00	B R E A K
17:00 – 18:30 17.00 - 17.08 17.10 - 17.18 17.20 - 17.28 17.30 - 17.38 17.40 - 17.48	Session 3: Update in Inguinal Hernia Repair Moderators: Salvador Morales Conde (Spain), Giampiero Campanelli (Italy) *With or Without mesh - Is that the question? Ralph Lorenz (Germany) Open preperitoneal mesh approach: pros and cons in 2020* Manuel López-Cano (Spain) *Laparoscopic approach: pros and cons in 2020* Pilar Hernandez Granados (Spain) *eTEP: make life easier or more complex?* Jorge Daes (Colombia) *Robotic approach: Pros and cons in 2020* Conrad Ballecer (USA)
17:50 – 18:30	Live Q & A Session
18:30 - 19:00	B R E A K
19:00 – 20:30 19:00 – 19:08 19:10 – 19:18 19:20 – 19:28 19:30 – 19:38	Session 4: MIS in Ventral hernia repair Moderators: Wolfgang Reimpold (Germany), Eduardo Parra-Dávila (USA) *How many abdominal planes to place a mesh? ICAP Classification* Sam Parker (UK) *IPOM: no longer useful or have a new role?* Salvador Morales-Conde (Spain) *Retromuscular approach: the new gold standard?* Victor Radu (Rumania) *Will robotic surgery offer the final solution to most of the cases?* Filip Muysoms (Belgium)
19:40 – 20:30	Live Q & A Session
20:30	C L O S I N G R E M A R K S - Day 1

10:30 – 12:00 10:30 – 10:52 10:55 – 11:17 11:20 – 11:42	Session 5: Robotic in abdominal wall surgery – Limits and strengths Moderators: Ulrich Dietz (Switzerland), Jan Kukleta (Switzerland) *Robotic Inguinal hernia repair, essential experience for the learning curve, and analysis of the literature* Maarten Simons (The Netherlands) *Technical Limitations and strengths of today's robotics in abdominal wall surgery* Georgiana Dinescu (France) *Current trends and techniques in the adoption of the robot in the abdominal wall surgery* Filip Muysoms (Belgium)
11:45 – 12:00	Live Q & A Session
12:00 - 12:30	B R E A K
12:30 – 14:00 12:30 – 12:38 12:40 – 12:48 12:50 – 12:58 13:00 – 13:08	Session 6: Prevention – our new goal! Moderators: Rolf Hartung (UAE), Eva Deerenberg (USA) *Incisional hernia prevention: small bites enough or we need a mesh?* Nadia Heriksen (Denmark) *How to do parastomal hernia prevention. Value of Minimal invasive techniques* Manuel López Cano (Spain) *Incisional hernia prevention in other surgical specialities* Cesare Stabilini (Italy) *Why low level of implementation of prevention in incisional and parastomal?* William Hope (USA)
13:20 – 14:00	Live Q & A Session
14:00 - 15:00	B R E A K
15:00 – 16:30 15.00 - 15.10 15.10 - 15.20 15.20 - 15.30 15.30 - 15.40	Session 7: Real world evidence (Registries) in abdominal wall surgery Moderators: Filip Muysoms (Belgium) David Chen (USA) *Why a register?* Agneta Montgomery (Sweden) *Do we really learn from registry? – major messages changing surgical practice* Ferdinand Kockerling (Germany) *Any news from register in the USA?* Benjamin Pouluse (USA) *The EHS goal – to have a European register – steps to be taken* Maarten Simons (The Netherlands)
15:40 – 16:30	Live Q & A Session
16:30 - 17:00	B R E A K
17:00 – 18:30 17.00 - 17.10 17.10 - 17.20 17.20 - 17.30 17.30 - 17.40 17.40 - 17.50	Session 8: Component separation in complex AWR. When and How I do it Moderators: Maciej Pawlak (UK) Barboa East (Czech) *Open approach for component separation* Alastair Windsor (UK) *MIS Anterior component separation* Lars N. Jorgensen (Dermark) *MIS Posterior component/TAR separation* Salvador Morales-Conde (Spain) *Anterior vs posterior - Critical analysis* Andrew de Beaux (UK) *Is robotic approach the solution for MIS component separation?* Igor Beliansky (USA)
17:50 – 18:30	Live Q & A Session
18:30 - 18:45	C L O S I N G C E R E M O N Y ------------------------------------- EHS President – Agneta Montgomery (Sweden) General Secretary – Salvador Morales-Conde (Spain) President of the Organizing Committte – Manuel López-Cano (Spain)

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