Hernia Surgery Summit

Yuri Novitsky, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Director, Columbia Hernia Center
Chief, Division of Abdominal Wall Surgery
Department of Surgery
New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, NY

Vedra A. Augenstein, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, NC

Conrad Ballecer, MD, FACS
Clinical Assistant Professor
Creighton University SOM Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ

Igor Belyansky, MD, FACS
Director of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Program
Chief of General Surgery
Anne Arundel Medical Center
Annapolis, MD

David Chen, MD, FACS
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Director Lichtenstein-Amid Hernia Clinic
Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery
UCLA Division of General Surgery
Santa Monica, CA

Jorge Daes, MD, FACS
Academic Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Clinica Portoazul
Barranquilla, Colombia

Andrew de Beaux, MD, MBChB, FRCS
General Surgeon
Spire Edinburgh Hospitals
United Kingdom

Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, MD
Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Chief of the Department of Plastic Surgery
National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Mexico City
Mexico

B. Todd Heniford, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Director, Carolinas Hernia Institute
Department of Surgery
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, NC

Henry Hoffmann, MD
ZweiChirurgen
Private Practice
Consultant Surgeon
Basel, Switzerland

Brian Jacob, MD, FACS
Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Andreas Koch, MD, FACS
Day Surgery and Hernia Center
Cottbus, Germany

Filip Muysoms, MD, PhD
Head, Department of Abdominal Surgery
AZ Maria Middelares Hospital
Ghent, Belgium

Sean Orenstein, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery
OHSU School of Medicine
Portland, OR

Andrea Pakula, MD, MPH, FACS
Medical Director of Robotic Surgery
Adventist Health Simi Valley Hospital
Simi Valley, CA

Eric M. Pauli, MD, FACS, FASGE
David L. Nahrwold Professor of Surgery
Director of Endoscopic Surgery
Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery
Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, PA

Jaimey M. Pauli, MD, FACOG
Professor and Chief, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, PA

Dina Podolsky, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Co-Director, Columbia Hernia Center
Division of Abdominal Wall Surgery
Department of Surgery
New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, NY

Victor Radu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor,
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Bucharest, Romania

Yohann Renard, MD, PhD
General/Digestive Surgery
Hernia and Abdominal Repair
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims
Reims, France

David Ross, MD
Plastic Surgery
The London Clinic
Nuffield Health
United Kingdom