AWRE 2024 Programme
Check out the AWRE 2024 Programme and join us in Ghent for this fantastic event.
Day 1 - Wednesday 31st January
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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 & Bob Bloemendaal
- Understanding the role of robotics, Filip Muysoms
- Where can you begin to train on robotics in AWR surgery, Mette Willaume
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Industry Symposium supported by Medtronic: How can computational models support hernia surgery?
Anicet Le Ruyet
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KEYNOTE: A critical assessment of AWR data – we have a long way to go
Todd Heniford
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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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The new age of AWR surgery
Chairs: Mette Willaume & Ramia Stolts
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 supported by GORE: Why do we still question IPOM?
Hakan Gok
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KEYNOTE: The new paradigm in giant hernia management
Dr Balasubramaniam Ramana
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The key advances in imaging
Professor Anders Persson
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Summary and close of day 1
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Drinks reception
Day 2 - Thursday 1st February
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Breakfast and refreshments
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Mesh Suture and Strips - Options and Outcome
Jeff Janis
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Industry symposium supported by BD: 72 reasons for the use of long-term resorbable mesh
Dr. Manuel López Cano & Amit Badhwar
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How to manage ventral hernias
Chairs: Nadia Henriksen & Tim Brown
Laparoscopic techniques, Hakan Gok
Robotic techniques, Eva Deerenberg
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Prehabilitation of the AWR patient
Marja Boermeester
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 supported by TELABio: Pauli Parastomal Hernia’s
Professor Miguel Angel Garcia Urena & Dr Bob Bloemendaal
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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: Sam Parker& Ramia Stolts
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KEYNOTE: The role of Botulinum toxin in AWR
Anita Jacombs
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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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How to create long term success for patients
Chair: Sam Parker & Miguel Urena
- 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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Analysing the Impact: Clinical Experiences and Health Economic Insights of ci-NPT in NELA: Industry symposium supported by 3M
Ben Griffiths
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Preoperative progressive pneumoperitoneum in AWR surgery
Yohann Renard
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Summary and close of day
Day 3 - Friday 2nd February
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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Long-term Follow-Up data on Intraoperative Fascial Traction
Prof. Henning Niebuhr
Industry Symposium supported by Fasciotens
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KEYNOTE: The management of the complex abdominal wound
Marc Miserez
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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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Expert video sessions: how do they do it?
- Miguel Urena
- 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 & Marc Miserez
What I do with the unrepairable hernia, Marja Boermeester
Definitions and complex decision making for challenging hernias, Sam Parker
Is there a limit to the challenge, Frederik Berrevoet
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Summary and close of conference
David Ross & Al Windsor