Chen Jie, PhD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon,
Department of Hernia and Abdominal Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital,
President, Asia-Pacific Hernia Society, Beijing, China
Anil Sharma, MD
Professor, Director Endohernia Surgery, Max Superspeciaty Hospital, New Delhi, India
Ji Zhenling, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Southeast University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
Tang Jianxiong, MD
Professor, Department of General Surgery, Huadong Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Shen Yingmo, MD
Professor, Director, Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Davide Lomanto, MD
Professor, Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre (MISC),the National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore
Alfred Allen Buenafe, MD
Philippine Center for Advanced Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Training Center Cardinal Santos Medical Center, San Juan, Philippines
Barlian Sutedja, MD
Gading Pluit Hospital,Jl. Boulevard Timur Raya Kelapa Gading, Jakarta, Indonesia
Fu Yang, PhD, MD
Professor & Director, Department of General Surgery, Zhengzhou University 1st Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Gu Yan, MD
Professor, Director, Hernia and Abdominal Wall Disease Center, Hua Dong Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
George Yang, PhD, MD
Clinical Director of Robotic Surgery (General Surgery), Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Huang Yonggang, MD
Deputy Director, Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
King Man Joe Fang, MD
Assistant Hospital Chief of Executive, Chief of Service, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong- Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
Li Binggen, MD
Vice Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Hexian Memorial Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Li Hangyu, MD
Professor, Department of General Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
Li Junsheng, MD
Chief Physician of Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Zhong-Da Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Liu Ziwen, MD
Professor, Director, Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Mahesh Misra, MD
Emeritus Professor, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS, Senior Consultant, General & Laparoscopic Surgery, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi, India
Manish Baijal, MD
Senior Director, Institute of Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Bariatric Surgery Max Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India
Qin Changfu, MD
Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, Beijing University Peoples Hospital, Beijing, China
Rolf Ulrich Hartung, MD
Medical Director at Mediclinic City Hospital,Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sathien Tumtavitikul, MD
Department of Surgery, Vichaiyut Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Xiong Maoming, MD
Department of General Surgery, Anhui Medical University 1st Hospital, Hefei, China
Yang Huiqi, MD
Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Zhang Jian, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Deputy Director,Department of Surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China
Europe
Reinhard Bittner, MD, FRCS, FICS
Professor, Emeritus Director of Surgical Department, Marien Hospital Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Ferdinand Köckerling, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery and Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery,
Vivantes Hospital Spandau, Neue Bergstraße, BE, Germany
René H. Fortelny, MD
Professor, Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, Austria
Henry Hoffmann, MD
Surgical Consultant, Certified Competency Center of Hernia Surgery, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse, Basel, Switzerland
Giampiero Campanelli, MD
Full Professor of Surgery Insubria University, Director General Surgery - Day Surgery, Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio - Milan, Past President of the European Hernia Society, Past President of the Italian Society of Ambulatory Surgery and Day Surgery, President of the Foundation Day Surgery Onlus, Italy
Frederik Berrevoet, MD
Professor of Surgery, Department of General and HPB Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Alexey Abolmasov, MD, PhD
Chief of Department, Orel State University Clinic, Orel Regional Hospital, Orel, Russia
Bernd Stechemesser, MD
Director, Certified Hernia Center, Hernienzentrum Köln, Germany
Hakan Kulacoglu, MD, FACS, FICS
Professor of Surgery, Ankara Hernia Center, Turkey
Henning Niebuhr, MD
Professor, FEBS AWS, Hamburger Hernien Centrum, Hamburg, Germany
Jan Kukleta, MD
Klinik Im Park Zurich (Hirslanden Group) Visceral Surgery, Network Hernia, Zurich, Switzerland
Jurij Gorjanc, MD, PhD, FRCS
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rudolf Schrittwieser, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of Surgery, LKH Hochsteiermark, Austria
Wolfgang Reinpold, MD
Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of Surgery and Hernia Center Gross Sand Hospital, Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg, Gross Sand, Hamburg, Germany
America
William W. Hope, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, UNC-CH, Program Director General Surgery Residency Program,
New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
David C. Chen, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Director, Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic at UCLA,
Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, UCLA Division of General Surgery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Karl A. LeBlanc, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Senior Medical Director, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Hobart W. Harris, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sergio Roll, MD, PhD, FACS
Director of Center of Abdominal Wall Surgery - Santa Casa of São Paulo Hospital, Division of General Surgery, School of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa of São Paulo, Director of The German Hospital Oswaldo Cruz Hernia Center, São Paulo, Brazil
Archana Ramaswamy, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota, USA
Bruce Ramshaw, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Graduate School of Medicine; University Surgeons Associates, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Colston Edgerton, MD
General and Bariatric Surgery, Novant Surgery/New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Novant Surgery/New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Federico Gorganchian, MD, MACC
General Surgeon, Argentinean Hernia Society, Argentina
John Morrison, MD
University of Western Ontario, London, Chatham Kent Health Alliance, Chatham, ON, Canada
Ricardo Abdalla, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, HCFMUSP, Coordinator Robotic Surgery Research Program, Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Cheng-Chung
Tsai, MD
General
Surgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, and National Yang-Ming
University School of Medicine, Taiwan, China
David Watson, MD
Professor
of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia
Dennis Klassen, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Laparoscopic and
Gastrointestinal Surgery, Canada
Diego Cuccurullo, MD
President of the Italian Society of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, General, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery, AORN Ospedali dei Colli, Italy
Dirk Weyhe, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of Visceral Surgery, University of Oldenburg, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Pius-Hospital, Medical Campus, Oldenburg, Germany
Emanuela Dapunt, MD
General Surgery, Krankenhaus Bruneck, Spitalstraße 11, Bruneck (BZ), Italy
Federico Gorganchian, MD
General Surgery, University of Buenos Aires University, UBA, Argentina
Frederic Eckhauser, MD
Director of Surgical Education, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Franz Mayer, MD
Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
Guido Woeste, MD
General and Visceral Surgery Clinic, Non-profit GmbH Academic Teaching Hospital, Darmstadt, Germany
Haechang Cho, MD
Department of Surgery, Daegu Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea
Hanh Tran, MD
Director of the Sydney Hernia Specialist Clinic, Sydney, Australia
Huang Heguang, MD
Professor, Chief Surgeon, Director of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Disease Center, China
Jaideepraj Rao, MD
Senior Consultant and Head of the Upper Gastrointestinal & Minimal Access Surgery Unit, and the Director of the Bariatric Surgery Programme in the Department of General Surgery in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Ji-Young Sul, MD
Department of Surgery, Chungnam National University School of Medicine and its affiliated Hospital in Daejeon, South Korea
Jorge Daes, MD
Academic Director, Minimally invasive Surgery Department, Clinica Portoazul, Barranquilla, Colombia
Jose Macario Faylona, MD
Associated Professor, Department of Surgery, University of the Phillipines, Manila, UP - Philippine General Hospital, Phillipines
Kelimu Abudureyimu, MD
Professor, Chief Surgeon, Director of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Disease Center, People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Associate Dean of People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, China
Kestutis Strupas, MD
Professor, Chief of Clinic of Gastroenterology, Nephrourology and Surgery, Medicine Faculty of Vilnius University, Lithuanian
Kuo Hsin Chen, MD
Chairman, Department of Surgery, Chief, Division of General Surgery, Far-Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, China
Li Jianwen, MD
Professor, Director and Chief Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; President-elect, Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons, Shanghai, China
Maciej Pawlak, MD
General and Upper GI Surgical Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Pradeep Chowbey, MD
Executive Vice-Chairman – Max Healthcare Institute Ltd. and Chairman – Max Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (MAMBS) at Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India
Rajesh Khullar, MBBS, MS, FICS
Director, Max Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Max Healthcare, Saket, New Delhi, India
Rick Ngo, MD
Minimally Invasive Hernia & Gallbladder Surgery, Texas Hernia Specialists, Southwest Surgical Associates, USA
Ross Roberts, MD
The Hernia Clinic, Level 1, 9 Caledonian Road, Christchurch, New Zealand
Sachit Anand, MD
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, India
Suthep Udomsawaengsup, MD
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Takehiro Hachisuka, MD
Department of General Surgery, Yokkaichi Municipal Hospital, 2‐2‐37 Shibata, Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan
Tan Min, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Director of Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Yuri Novitsky, MD
Professor of Surgery, Director, Comprehensive Hernia Center, Chief, Division of Abdominal Wall Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA
Valery Egiev, MD
Professor, Vice-President of the SM-Clinic of Surgery, Head of Department of surgery and Oncology of RUDN, Moscow, Russia
Virinder Kumar Bansal, MD
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
Vedra Augenstein, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, USA
Wang Ping, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Director of Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery, Associate dean of Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China
Wang Qiusheng, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Director in Department of Minimally Invasive General Surgery, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China
Xu Deli, MD
Professor, Chief Physician, Director of Department of General Surgery, Jinghu Hospital, Macau, Macau, China
Yao Qiyuan, MD
Chief Surgeon, Deputy Director of Surgery, Director of Department of Hernia and Abdominal Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, General committee, Chinese Hernia College of Surgeons, Shanghai, China