Preliminary programme: titles, timings, and speaker details liable to change
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Registration and light lunch
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Welcome to AWRE 2024
David Ross & Al Windsor
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Robotics
Chairs: David Ross & Al Windsor
- Understanding the role of robotics, Filip Muysoms
- Where can you begin to train on robotics in AWR surgery, Mette Willaume
- Bringing new robots to market, how can you get them approved
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Industry Symposium
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KEYNOTE: A critical assessment of AWR data – we have a long way to go
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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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The new age of AWR surgery
Chairs: Mette Willaume & John Fischer
- How do we extrapolate sort term results to long term outcomes, David Sanders
- Is the robot always the answer?, Todd Heniford
- What role will AI play in medicine and how will it be applied to AWR surgery, Jeff Janis
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Industry Symposium
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KEYNOTE: The key principles of imaging
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The key advances in imaging
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Summary and close of day 1
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Drinks reception
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Breakfast and refreshments
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Case selection of the AWR patient, optimising safety against surgical techniques
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Industry symposium
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How to manage ventral hernias
Chairs: Nadia Henriksen & Tim Brown
- Open techniques, Al Windsor
- Laparoscopic techniques, Hakan Gok
- Robotic techniques, Eva Deerenberg
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Prehabilitation of the AWR patient
Marja Boermeester
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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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Management of complex hernias
Chair: Fred Berrevoet & Marja Boermeester
- Flank hernias, Eric Pauli
- Umbilical hernias, Nadia Henriksen
- Lumbar hernias, Yohann Renard
- Transplant hernias, Tim Brown
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Industry symposium
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KEYNOTE: Management of parastomal hernias
Eric Pauli
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Lunch & exhibition viewing
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Free Paper Session
Chairs: David Ross & Al Windsor
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KEYNOTE: The role of Botulinum toxin in AWR
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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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How to create long term success for patients
Chair: Sam Parker
- What does patient happiness mean?, Srinivas Chintapatla
- What do we mean by patient outcomes and how do we measure it? John Fischer
- Discussion
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Industry symposium
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Preoperative progressive pneumoperitoneum in AWR surgery
Yohann Renard
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Summary and close of day
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Registration and refreshments
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Case study panel: what happens when it goes wrong
Chairs: Filip Muysoms & Dr B Ramana
- Marja Boermeester
- Eric Pauli
- Todd Heniford
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Industry symposium
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KEYNOTE: The management of the complex abdominal wound
Marc Mizerez
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Expert video sessions: how do they do it?
- Fischer
- Al Windsor
- Eva Deerenberg
- Maaike Vierstraete
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Lunch
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KEYNOTE: Getting certified in AWR
Ferdinand Köckerling
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The challenging hernia
Chair: Todd Heniford
- What I do with the unrepairable hernia, Marja Boermeester
- TBC, Sam parker
- A new paradigm in giant hernia repair, Dr Ramana
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Summary and close of conference
David Ross & Al Windsor