2025 Programme

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Registration and refreshments
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Welcome to UK RAWS 2025

 Filip Muysoms

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Session 1: Robotic abdominal wall surgery: Yes, it is a thing!


Moderators: Annabelle De Troyer & Filip Muysoms

- Robotic platforms in the European Hernia Space | Deena Harji

- Starting robotic abdominal wall surgery | Altaf Awan

- Cost effectiveness of robotic inguinal hernia repair | Andreas Thalheimer 

- Robotic ventral hernia surgery in a high-volume center | Henrik Husu

- Q & A  

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Industry Symposium - Why Retrain as a Robotic Surgeon – a senior surgeon’s perspective

Tan Arulampalam

Session Sponsored by CMR


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Cost effectiveness of robotic ventral hernia surgery: data from the Danish Hernia Registry
Keynote

Nadia Henriksen

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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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Session 2: Robotic approach to defects of the linea alba


Moderators: Annabelle De Troyer & Andreas Thalheimer

Anatomy and the physics of the forces on the linea alba | Alix Donadieu

Lateral transabdominal approach to the linea alba | Imran Bhatti

Robotic eTEP approach to the linea alba | Bjorn Mück

Robotic options for diastasis recti | Filip Muysoms 

Q & A

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Lunch
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Session 3: Robotic approach to complex abdominal wall hernias


Moderators: Nadia Henriksen & Bjorn Mück

- What makes a hernia complex and what to do about it? | Al Windsor

- Surgical anatomy of the subxyphoidal area | Alix Donadieu

Robotic approach to complex midline hernias | Filip Muysoms

Robotic approach to lumbar hernias | Bjorn Mück

Robotics in plastic surgery: Is that a thing? | David Ross

Q & A

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Industry Symposium - Simplifying Robotic Access with Dexter® to Deliver the Best in Minimally Invasive Care

Sarah Moore

Session Sponsored by Distalmotion


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Refreshments and exhibition viewing
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Session 4: New stuff in robotic AWR?


Moderators: Deena Harji & Filip Muysoms

- Hernia repair with the Versius platform | Frances Dixon

- Hernia repair with the Dexter platform | Lukas Gantner

- Ventral hernia repair with the Hugo RAS system | Sebastien Strypstein

- Hernia surgery with the daVinci SP system | Annabelle De Troyer

- Q&A

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Welcome Reception