The Abdominal Wall Meeting in Washington DC will bring together up to 1000 surgeons who perform abdominal wall reconstruction. I will give two lectures. The first is on the role of synthetic meshes in hernia repair. The other is on soft tissue flaps as an aid to complex abdominal wall reconstruction. I will also participate…Read More…
2011 Plastic Surgery meeting in Denver
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…Read More…
2011 Hand Surgery meeting
I participated with Dr. Alex Shin at the 2011 ASSH meeting in Las Vegas, and gave a course on management of symptomatic neuromas.
33rd European Hernia Society meeting speaker
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…Read More…
Comments made by a breast reconstruction patient
I distinctly remember my first visit with Dr. Dumanian. I was 6 months post-treatment for Inflammatory Breast Cancer, I felt emotionally and physically defeated and I was pretty sure there wasn’t much that could be done about the way I looked. I think normalcy was as much as I felt I could possibly hope for. …Read More…
32nd European Hernia Society meeting, Istanbul Turkey 10-8-2010
It was fun meeting with European hernia surgeons. I spoke on the use of intraabdominal midweight polypropylene meshes, and the issues of the “loss of domain” as they relate to components separation repairs.
Upcoming speaking engagements and lectures
Multiple speaking engagements are coming. With Dr. Chuck Butler, I will give a course on abdominal wall reconstruction at the American Society of Plastic Surgery national meeting in Toronto on October 4. The following weekend, I will be an invited speaker at the European Hernia meeting in Istanbul, Turkey on October 9.
Abdominal wall reconstruction course in Washington DC 2010
I just returned from giving two lectures at the above course. The first detailed my technique for a direct supported repair using soft prolene mesh to buttress a components separation procedure. The second demonstrated techniques to rearrange the skin and achieve wound closure at the time of hernia repair. Several members of the audience asked…Read More…
Comments made by a patient treated for chronic knee area nerve pain after an orthopedic procedure:
Thank you Dr. Dumanian, for giving me use of my leg and my life back. The many other treatments I had tried over the years (including physical therapy, prolotherapy, steroid injections, iontophoresis, and sympathetic nerve blocks) had reduced some of the hypersensitivity, but couldn’t touch that incredible nerve pain that prevented me from doing just…Read More…
Hernia Discouse
I gave an interview on the Ethicon “Hernia Discourse” site. I discuss lots of issues regarding the components separation technique, and the use of mesh. It can be found as item number 40, at http://feeds.feedburner.com/herniadiscourse