12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Registration and lunch
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Welcome to AWRE 2023
1:10 PM - 2:15 PM
Understanding what the abdominal wall looks like
2:15 PM - 2:35 PM
Industry Symposium
2:35 PM - 3:00 PM
Keynote: Why do we get hernias?
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Refreshments and exhibition viewing
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Consulting with patients: a view from different countries and specialities
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Industry Symposium
4:50 PM - 5:20 PM
Keynote: Physiotherapy of the AWR patient
5:20 PM - 5:30 PM
Summary and close of day 1
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Evening reception
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast and refreshments
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Keynote: Deep Vein Thrombosis
9:25 AM - 9:45 AM
Industry Symposium
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Key principles of hernia repair
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
Keynote: Complex abdominal wall reconstruction
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Refreshments and exhibition viewing
11:40 AM - 12:25 PM
Understanding mesh
12:25 PM - 12:45 PM
Industry symposium
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM
MHRA – How do we approve and regulate products
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Keynote: how to finance a product from conception to production
1:20 PM - 2:20 PM
Lunch
2:20 PM - 3:20 PM
Free paper session
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM
Update from free paper winner at AWRE 2022
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Refreshments and exhibition viewing
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM
Keynote: Abdominal compartment syndrome: avoidance, diagnosis, and treatment
4:25 PM - 5:00 PM
Panel: The use of Botox – when, where and why?
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Keynote
5:30 PM - 5:40 PM
Summary and close of day
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Breakfast and refreshments
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Robotics & AI in AWR Surgery
10:35 AM - 11:15 AM
Panel: future changes in AWR treatment
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Industry symposium
11:45 AM - 12:10 PM
Keynote: AW surgery - anaesthesia and pain blocks
12:10 PM - 12:55 PM
Parastomal hernias
12:55 PM - 1:15 PM
Nutrition in the AWR patient
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Lunch
2:15 PM - 2:40 PM
Keynote: Liposuction
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Industry symposium
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Management of recurrent hernia
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Summary and close of conference