PERSPECTIVE

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”

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”