Speciality:

Professor of digestive surgery

Biography:

Full Professor of Surgery and Head of the Department of Digestive Surgery and Complex Abdominal Repair at the Louis-Mourier Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, France. General Secretary of the French Hernia Society.
Coordinating investigator of two national multicenter randomized controlled trials dedicated to abdominal hernia surgery.

• The BeSURE trial, testing ventral hernia repair with mesh or simple suture concomitant with bariatric surgery (recruiting).
• The INCISOX trial, soon to begin in France, compares botulinum toxin A preparation versus placebo prior to treatment of large incisional hernias (W3).