I gave three presentations at the 33rd European hernia society meeting in Ghent, Belgium in May 2011. One was a panel debate on the proper treatment of the open abdomen. A second was a presentation on my results of 100 consecutive intraabdominal mesh cases. The third was on the overuse of bioprosthetic mesh. The presentations led to much discussion amongst the group of European general surgeons.
I participated with Dr. Alex Shin at the 2011 ASSH meeting in Las Vegas, and gave a course on management of symptomatic neuromas.
At the national plastic surgery meeting, I will help give a course on abdominal wall reconstruction with Dr. Chuck Butler and Dr. Gordan Lee. My topics are the use of prosthetic mesh, and the treatment of infected mesh. I have two paper presentations as well. One paper is on plastic surgeon “burn-out” and the factors related to it. The other is on my results of prosthetic mesh use in 100 consecutive patients.