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

Gregory A. Dumanian, MD
Plastic Surgery
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

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

Fernando Ferreira, MD
Upper GI Surgery and Complex Abdominal Management
Hospital CUF Porto
Portugal

Federico Fiori, MD
Ref. AWR
Division of General and Robotic Surgery
ASST-Santi Paolo e Carlo
San Carlo Borromeo Hospital
Milano

Rodrigo Galhego, MD
Casa De Saude São José
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Philip George, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Columbia University
Division of Abdominal Wall Surgery
Department of Surgery
Columbia University
New York, NY

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

Salvatore Morales-Conde, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery
University Hospital Virgen Macarena

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

Craig R. Smith, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Surgeon-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Columbia University Medical Center

Hector Valenzuela, MD
Director of AWR and Diastasis Center.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Staff Surgeon
Hospital Ángeles del Carmen