PERSPECTIVE

EDUCATING RESIDENTS

Dr Towfigh mentors residents and fellows about Hernia Surgery as a career.

EDUCATING PATIENTS

This is the world’s most up-to-date patient discussion board on everything hernia, led by expert hernia surgeons.

Read or search through postings that patients pose about their groin pain, abdominal hernia, surgical recovery, and complications. Top hernia expert surgeons answer patients and we also help patients find an expert near them to seek help.

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EDUCATING SURGEONS

UPCOMING CONFERENCES & COURSES

2023:

  • American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter, Santa Barbara, California
    • “Tissue-Based Inguinal Hernia Repair.”
  • Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Montreal, Canada
    • “The Challenging Inguinal Hernia Repair”
    • “The Challenging Ventral Hernia Repair”
    • “Demonstrating Worth for New Technology: A surgeon’s perspective”
  • European Hernia Society, Sitges, Spain
    • “Indications for Primary Robotic Ventral Hernia Repair”
  • International Hernia Collaboration. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • “Minimally Invasive Tissue Repair of Inguinal Hernia: Robotic iliopubic tract repair”
    • “Mesh Implant Illness”
  • VII International Congress of Hernia of the Mexican Hernia Association (AMH), Querétaro, Mexico
    • “The Patient Does Not Want Mesh: Why? What Can I Do for Him/Her?”
  • American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Boston, Massachusetts
    • “Minimally Invasive Approach to Inguinal/Femoral Hernias
    • “Do We Need Mesh? Patient and Surgeon Perspectives”
  • Mexican Association of General Surgery (AMCG), Mexico City, Mexico
    • “The Patient Does Not Want Mesh: Why? What Can I Do for Him/Her?”
  • 9th National Hernia Congress Turkish Hernia Society, Istanbul, Turkey
    • “Occult Inguinal Hernias”
    • “Management of complication and groin pain after inguinal hernia surgery” 

2024:

  • American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter, Santa Barbara, California
  • Pacific Coast Surgical Association, Rancho Mirage, California
    • “Mesh Implant Illness (MII): Does Surgical Management Beyond Mesh Removal Matter?”
  • Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Cleveland, Ohio
    • “Hidden Hernias Hurt: A plea for early diagnosis and treatment of occult inguinal hernias”
  • European Hernia Society, Prague, Czech Republic
    • “Groin Pain in Women”
    • “What can MRI tell us about abdominal wall hernias that CT cannot?”
  • American Hernia Society
    • “Understanding Mesh Options in 2024”
  • Mexican Association of General Surgery (AMCG), Acapulco, Mexico
    • “Beyond the Guidelines: Hernia and Obesity”
    • “Reoperation for Groin Pain”
    • “How to manage a strangulated hernia with signs of intestinal perforation?”
    • “My patient does not want a mesh. What should I know? What should I do?”
  • International Hernia Collaboration, Mérida, Mexico
    • “Chronic Post-Inguinal Herniorrhaphy Pain, Diagnostic Algorithm”