Preliminary programme: titles, timings, and speaker details liable to change
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Refreshments and registration
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Welcome and introduction
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Session 1: AWRE Welcome
Chairs: Alastair Windsor & David Ross
- Hispanic Surgery and its contribution to Abdominal Wall Reconstruction | Angel Zorraquino (10 mins)
- Evolution of practice in complex AWR | Thomas Ibarra (10 mins)
- Identifying the key future challenges in AWR | Miguel Urena (10 mins)
- The surgeon as trainer and teacher | Mario Goncalves (10 mins)
- Discussion (20 mins)
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Sponsored Symposium -
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Keynote: AI in AWR; Where is it working, and where is it not
Eric Pauli (20 mins)
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Coffee and exhibition viewing
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Session 2: The Pre-peritoneum
Chairs: Stella Smith & David Sanders
- The pre-peritoneal space; Surgical access and utilisation | Javier Monclus (15 mins)
- Pre-peritoneal repair vs TAR; have we come full circle? | Todd Heniford (15 mins)
- Understanding the Linea Alba | Yohan Renard (15 mins)
- : Radiological anatomy and how can use it in daily practice | Eric Pauli (15 mins)
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Discussion (20 mins)
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Sponsored Symposium -
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Keynote: Evolution of MIS in AWR
Jorge Diaz (20 mins)
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Lunch and Exhibition
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Keynote: Volume Matters in AWR
Oliver Warren
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Sponsored Symposium –
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Session 3: Understanding obesity and the role of novel strategies in achieving weight loss; Implications for AWR
Chairs: TBA
PTep: Cranial approach | TBA (10 mins)
PTep: Caudal Approach | TBA (10 mins)
The Achilles heel of the eTep | Hakan Gok (10 mins)
Lateral pre-peritoneal approach | Bob Bloemendaal (10 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
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Afternoon Break and Exhibitions
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Session 4: Tar Revisited
Chairs: TBA
Origins of TAR | Marc Miserez (10 mins)
MIS TAR | Jorge Diaz (10 mins)
Madrid modification | Miguel Urena (10 mins)
What is the current data on outcomes in TAR | Frederik Hejlstrand (10 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
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Keynote: Robotics and surgery of the New Age
Speaker TBA
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Welcome Reception
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Registration and refreshments
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Session 1: Prehabilitation and patient optimisation
Chairs: TBA
Prehabilitation; Current best practice | Marja Boermiester (15 mins)
Preop and post-op physiotherapy | Katarina Woxnerud (15 mins)
Frailty and when to say no | TBA (15 mins)
Medical optimisation of the AWR patient | TBA (15 mins)
Discussion (15 mins)
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Sponsored Symposium -
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Keynote: Characteristics and properties of surgical mesh
TBA
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Break and exhibition viewing
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Keynote: Are we over-treating the small defect?
TBA
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Female Focus: Redefining existing standards
Supported By: Medtronic
Sponsored Symposium - Medtronic – All about Female hernia
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Session 2: Mini Symposium, Lost Voices
Chairs: TBA
- Hidden Dimensions of Surgical Merit | Mette Williams (10 mins)
- Harassment Paper BJS | Christoper Begeny (10 mins)
- Discussion (10 mins)
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Session 3: Mini Mesh Symposium
Chairs: TBA
- Managing the chronically infected Mesh | David Sanders (10 mins)
- Mesh choice; what does the data tell us? | Ferdinand Kockerling (10 mins)
- Biofilms and surgical mesh | Anita Jacombs (10 mins)
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Discussion (10 mins)
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Lunch and Exhibition
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Session 4: Managing Parastomal hernia
Chairs: TBA
- How do we prevent parastomal hernias? CIPHER | Tomas Pinkey (10 mins)
- Mesh technology and parastomal hernia repair | R. Villa Lobos (10 mins)
- Robotic parastomal repair | Eric Pauli (10 mins)
- Robotic Recurrent Parastomal repair | Bob Bleomendaal (10 mins)
- Should parastomal hernia repair be centralised? | F. Heijlstrand (10 mins)
- Discussion (20 mins)
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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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Session 5: Managing Soft tissues and AW complications
Chairs: TBA
- Seromas and how to manage them | Sonia Reba (10 mins)
- Panniculectomy for the general surgeon | Vedra Augenstein (10 mins)
- The umbilicus, how to save it and reconstruct it | Greg Dumanian (10 mins)
- Managing the non-healing wound | Tomas Ibarra (10 mins)
- Repairing the post DIEP and TRAM-hernia | Simon Woods (10 mins)
- Management of the AW after burn injury | Peter Dziewulski (10 mins)
- Fascial transplantation | TBA (10 mins)
- Discussion (10 mins)
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Networking Reception
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Registration and refreshments
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Session 1: Managing the complex abdominal defect
Chair: TBA
Post liver transplant hernia | TBA (10 mins)
Complex Lateral hernias | TBA (10 mins)
Recurrent ventral hernias | TBA (10 mins)
The post-traumatic abdomen | TBA (10 mins)
Managing the abdominal wall with ECF | TBA (10 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
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Sponsored symposium - Tela - Parachute and Pull
TBA
Supported By: Tela
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Session 2: Mini Symposium - New mesh kids on the Block
Chairs: TBA
- Are synthetic absorbable meshes the way forward | TBA (10 mins)
- Next generation Biologic/hybrid mesh | TBA (10 mins)
- Discussion (10 mins)
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Break and exhibition viewing
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Keynote: Neuromuscular blockade and respiratory pressures; what every abdominal wall surgeon should know
Speaker TBA
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Session 3: Permanent Synthetic Mesh is Dangerous, or is it ?
Chairs: TBA
What do we know about long term morbidity | F. Kockerling (10 mins)
Synthetic mesh in contaminated fields | T Heniford (10 mins)
Is incisional hernia a chronic disease |TBA (10 mins)
How should we counsel patients about mesh | Oliver Warren (10 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
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Lunch and exhibition viewing
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Session 4: Diastasis Masterclass
Chairs: TBA
Optimal way to manage the post-partum abdomen? | Anders Olsen (10 mins)
MIS surgery for diastasis | Rodrigo Gallego (10 mins)
The post-partum abdomen; Do we need mesh? | Henry Hoffman (10 mins)
Managing diastasis–associated midline hernia | Sofia Esposito (10 mins)
Optimising outcome post-diastasis repair | K. Woxnerod (10 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
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Close of conference