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Cook Biotech Inc. Partners with the European Hernia Society

This partnership will further our mutual goals for improving patient hernia outcomes through continuing research and education.
Cook Biotech Incorporated is pleased to announce its 2022 partnership with the European Hernia Society (EHS).
The EHS’s aim is to improve hernia outcomes for patients, which is a natural fit for Cook Biotech’s own mission to continuously improve the way we serve patients. Our hernia products in Europe include our Biodesign® Hernia Graft and Biodesign® Hiatal Hernia Graft, products that help prevent hernia reoccurrences by providing support as the graft remodels into vascularized patient tissue.1

To achieve its goals of improving hernia patient care before, during, and after surgery, the EHS does the following:

  • Sets standards of surgical hernia knowledge
  • Sets standards of hernia diagnosis and treatment
  • Promotes hernia research
  • Promotes hernia education
  • Provides the most updated research, guidelines, and best practices for hernia repair

Perhaps the most exciting part of our partnership with the EHS is its promotion of three of our educational events in 2022. The EHS will also assess event content for accreditation. Previous EHS events have included robotic hernia repair, complex ventral hernia repair, and a comprehensive boot camp for hernia repair. Announcements about our educational events with the EHS will be coming throughout the year.

Other benefits to our partnership include a face-to-face roundtable with the EHS board executive, an invitation to observe a board meeting, and access to private groups and expert panels.

“This collaboration with EHS supports our mission to serve patients by increasing the knowledge and skills of surgeons,” stated Umesh Patel, president of Cook Biotech. “We look forward to working with the EHS to learn and educate about hernia repair and improve patient outcomes worldwide.”

1. Franklin ME Jr, Treviño JM, Portillo G, Vela I, Glass JL, González JJ. The use of porcine small intestinal submucosa as a prosthetic material for laparoscopic hernia repair in infected and potentially contaminated fields: Long-term follow-up. Surg Endosc. 2008;22(9):1941–1946.