Behind the Knife, your Carolina's Medical Center

hernia team.

We're joined again by familiar faces, Dr. Hannaford, who is the professor in chief of GIMIS

at Carolinas.

Dr. Augustine, who's also a professor of surgery at the Carolinas, and then Dr.

Pulse, who's currently at Baptist Health in Miami, and then myself, you so, I'm the minimally

invasive surgery fellow right now at Endeavor Health, formerly North Shore, outside of Chicago.

So today we're going to be talking about a topic that is near and dear to us. This is

training and hernia and abdominal wall surgery. This is a topic that's evolving pretty rapidly

and that is taking shape in America and kind of formalized ways. And so we're very excited to

talk about this. General surgeons have been receiving training

and hernia repair for over 100 years, but, you know, within the recent time period,

there are more and more people who are doing hernia surgery and therefore training others

to do the same. There are even specialized advanced training programs now that are designed

to produce abdominal surgeons. One of the very first programs to do that was here. And so we're going to

get these things started off with Dr. Henniford talking about his approach to training hernia surgeons

and the experience that he's had at Carolinas,

Dr. Hennifer.

Thanks very much, Sully.

The hernia fellowship that we have here really didn't start as our hernia fellowship,

and I still don't call it our Harnesses, but it's a complex GI Surgical Fellowship,

and hernias have become a big part of it just because of our referrals

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