Parastomal Study Days

24-25 April 2025, Manchester, UK

Programme

Topics included:

  • What to ask your surgeon about your hernia
  • Who should be doing parastomal hernia surgery?
  • Why not set up a specialist parastomal hernia clinic?
  • Tips and tricks for open surgical repair
  • If you do more, do your outcomes improve?
  • What is the evidence behind what we do?
  • Timing of surgery-should we intervene early
  • Quality of life issues
  • How to make the perfect stoma
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

*Programme is subject to change

TimeSessionSpeaker(s)
08:00Registration 
08:25Introduction & WelcomeDominic Slade, Knut Borch
08:30-09:40Topic 1: Understanding the Problem and Empowering Patients 
08:30-08:40What evidence do we have for what we do?Jeff Garner
08:40-08:50What are the results of surgery for parastomal hernia?Elisa Makarainen
08:50-09:00What does a specialist parastomal hernia clinic do?Dominic Slade, Andrzej Goscimski, Kylie Lockett
09:00-09:10What do patients want to know and how to ask your surgeon?Sue Blackwell, Natasha Rolls
09:10-09:40Panel discussion 
09:40-10:00Refreshments 
10:00-11:20Topic 2: Decision-Making Around Parastomal Hernia 
10:00-10:10Treatment algorithms to aid decision-makingToby Hammond
10:10-10:20Parastomal hernia and Crohn’s diseaseDavid Layfield
10:20-10:30Parastomal hernia, the loop stoma, and dysfunctional bowelSteve Brown
10:30-10:40Matching the operation to the problemEric Pauli
10:40-11:20Panel discussion and case studiesDieter Berger
11:20-11:40Refreshments 
11:40-13:00Topic 3: How I Do It… 
11:40-11:503D funnel mesh hybrid repairGernot Kohler
11:50-12:00Open retromuscular Sugarbaker repairEric Pauli
12:00-12:10Laparoscopic Sugarbaker repairKnut Borch
12:10-12:20Robotic retromuscular Sugarbaker repairJan Lambrecht
12:20-12:50Panel discussion and case studies 
12:50-13:15Keynote: Why I do what I do now and what I have learnt doing itDieter Berger
13:15-14:00Lunch 
14:00-15:10Parastomal Hernia Prevention 
14:00-14:10The perfect stoma and how to create itDominic Slade
14:10-14:20The “at-risk” patient – how to identify themStella Smith
14:20-14:30Prophylactic mesh to prevent parastomal hernia – what do we know?Elisa Makarainen
14:30-14:40The practicalities of preventionGernot Kohler
14:40-15:10Panel discussion and case studies 
15:10-15:20Closing remarks 


Speakers

Dieter Berger, Switzerland

Sue Blackwell, UK

Knut Borch, Norway

Steve Brown, UK

Andrzej Goscimski, Poland

Jeff Garner, UK

Toby Hammond, UK

Gernot Kohler, Austria

Jan Lambertcht, Norway

David Layfield, UK

Kylie Lockett, UK

Elisa Makarainen, Finland

Eric Pauli, USA

Natasha Rolls, UK

Dominic Slade, UK

Stella Smith, UK

Eric Pauli, USA

Natasha Rolls, UK

Dominic Slade, UK

Stella Smith, UK

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