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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AWR Surgery – where have we come from and where are we going

Chairs: Alastair Windsor & David Ross

- Reflection on a life in Hernia Surgery – what I’ve learned, and what may lie ahead | Lars Jorgensen (10 mins)

- The Evolution of robotic surgery in AWR surgery | Yuri Novitsky (10 mins)

- What are we doing well? How can we improve? | Todd Heniford (10 mins)

- Discussion

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Sponsored Symposium - The Future of Digital Technology : The Power of Connection ,Live Streaming and AI Insights in surgery

George Murgatroyd
VP/GM Digital Technology medtronic

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Managing Risk after abdominal Closure

Chairs: Jeff Janis & Rhys Thomas

- Idenitifying the high-risk patient | Stella Smith (8 mins)

- I can’t’ close the abdomen- Help | Dominic Slade (8 mins)

- Closing the abdomen- We know how to do it- but we don’t do it - technique and the emergence of closing teams | Ramia Stolt (8 mins)

- Abdominal compartment syndrome; diagnosis and management | Michael Sugrue (8 mins)

- Discussion

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Lunch and exhibition viewing
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Prehabilitation and optimization

Chairs: Stella Smith & David Sanders

- Pre-optimisation of the Complex AWR patient | Professor Sandy Jack (12 mins)

Intra operative musts to optimise success | Professor Boerrmeist  (12 mins) 

- Managing post-operative nutrition in the Surgical Patient | Dr Farouk Rahman (12 mins)

- Discussion

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Incisional ventral hernias (video case studies)

Chair: Al Windsor & Michael Sugrue

- Open repair | Rhys Thomas (15 mins)

- Laparoscopic repair | Jorge Daez (15 mins)

- Applying robotics to treat the midline hernia– strengths and limitations | Yuri Novitsky (15 mins)

- Discussion

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Sponsored Symposium - An update on the Madrid APPROACH and the incorporation of GORE® SYNECOR Preperitoneal Biomaterial into my CAWR practice

Miguel Angel Garcia Urena

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Refreshments and Exhibition
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Keynote; Evaluating the role of muscle paralysis in AWR
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Sponsored Session by Distalmotion

Greg Roche


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Understanding obesity and the role of novel strategies in achieving weight loss; Implications for AWR

Andrew Jenkinson

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Networking Reception
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Registration and refreshments
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Surgery in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Chairs: Dominic Slade & John Fischer

- The role of AI in AWR Surgery | Todd Heniford (10 mins)

- Certification and Performance Metrics in Robotic Surgery | Charlotte El-Sayed (10 mins)

- Impact of ChatGPT on surgical practice | Prof Sashi Kommu (10 mins)

- Discussion

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Sponsored Symposium

John Fischer

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Keynote: Title TBA
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Break and exhibition viewing
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Open component separation – When to do it and how?

Chairs: Lars Jorgenson & Michael Sugrue

- Indications for OCS | John Fischer (9 mins)

- How to perform ACS | Srinivas Chintapatla (9 mins)

- The open TAR | Yuri Novitsky (9 mins)

- Complications of OCS | David Sanders (9 mins)

- Discussion

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Sponsored Symposium

Al Windsor and Bob Bloemendaal

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Contemplating the navel

Chairs: Dom Slade & Ramia Stolt

- A brief overview of Umbilical Hernia Management | Lars Joergensen (10 mins)

- Umbilical hernia repair; Recommendations and guidelines | Mette Willaume (11 mins)

- Application of mesh sutures to umbilical hernia repair | Jeremy Clark (11 mins)

- Managing post-partum Umbilical Hernia | David Ross (11 mins)

- MIS repair of umbilical and diastasis repair | Jorge Daez (11 mins)

- Complex umbilical hernia repair | Fred Berrevoet (11 mins)

- Discussion

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Lunch and Exhibition
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Complex Hernias

Chairs: Marja Boermeister & Todd Heniford

- Traumatic and Flank hernias |Miguel Urena (12 mins)

- Para-stomal hernias | Sam Parker (12 mins)

- Post-transplant Hernias | Fred Berrevoet (12 mins)

- Discussion

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Keynote: Training the next Generation of AWR surgeons
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Tea and exhibition viewing
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Other key skills for AWR Surgeons

Chairs: Al Windsor & Miguel Urena

- Evaluating the role of muscle paralysis in AWR  |  Jeff Janis (15 mins)

- PPP and Ventral Hernia repair | Yohan Renard (15 mins)

- Discussion (15 mins)

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Sponsored Symposium - It’s time to rethink wound healing! A place for Closed Incision Negative Pressure Therapy (ciNPT) in abdominal and reconstructive surgery.

Prof. Marja Boermeester, Professor of Surgery and a Clinical Epidemiologist at the Amsterdam University Medical Centres (AUMC)

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Soft tissue recon of the abdominal wall

Chairs: David Ross & Yuri Novitsy

- Soft tissue complications | Jeff Janis (15 mins)

- Soft tissue reconstruction | Mr Paul Roblin (15 mins)

- Discussion

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Registration and refreshments
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Panel: Which mesh to choose and when?

Chair: Sam Parker, Sam Oarker, and Al Windsor

- David Sanders

- Marja B

- Filip Muysoms

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Danger of operating by numbers in AWR

Andrew De Beaux

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Sponsored symposium


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KEYNOTE: Mesh free techniques

Todd Henniford

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Break and exhibition viewing
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Keynote: TBC
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Sponsored Presentation

session supported by CMR


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Managing Patients - and the surgeons

 - Managing peri-operative pain in the hernia patient | Ash Shetty (15 mins)

- Measuring PROM in the abdominal wall patient; how to do it and why it’s important |  John Fischer (15 mins)

- Don’t forget the surgeon: Burnout in AWR |  Srinivas Chintapatla (15 mins)

- Discussion


session sponsored by CMR





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Lunch and exhibition viewing
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Case Studies: The expert panel

Chairs: David Ross & Al Windsor

- Jorge Daez

- John Fischer

- Todd Heniford

- Rhys Thomas

- Miguel Urena

- Yuri Novits

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Close of conference