News & Events: Complex Abdominal Wall Hernias

Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H., Chief of the Division of General Surgery and Director of the UCSF Center for Hernia Repair and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, will Chair the International Symposium on Incisional Hernia Prevention, sponsored by the UCSF Department of Surgery, to be held October 19-20, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. UCSF is the leading tertiary referral center in the region for hernia surgery, performing nearly 700 procedures annually, 350 of those for ventral (incisional) hernias that are frequently the most challenging.  Dr. Harris, a pioneer in the management of complex [...]