Comprehensive Hernia Center

The Brown University Health Comprehensive Hernia Center offers world-class hernia repair procedures. Our approach is holistic and personalized to provide best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We use a multidisciplinary approach, employing a wide variety of medical therapies and surgical techniques. Consulting with other specialists, including obesity medicine physicians, weight loss surgeons, dietitians, and wound care specialists, helps ensure safe and effective care for all our patients.

Because of our expertise, we are referral center for patients whose complex abdominal wall hernias cannot be treated elsewhere. We also strive to improve the care we offer each patient by conducting regular multidisciplinary hernia conferences, attending local and national hernia conferences, and evaluating and monitoring the quality of our work.

Why Choose Brown University Health’s Comprehensive Hernia Center?

Our board-certified surgeons have expertise in diagnosing and treating every type of hernia. We offer a full range of treatment options including:

• Open hernia repair
• Advanced abdominal wall reconstruction
• Minimally invasive and robotic approaches to hernia repair
• Use of synthetic and biologic mesh
• Advanced techniques to optimize defect closure

Additionally, the Comprehensive Hernia Center ensures that each patient’s hernia treatment is approached in a holistic and evidence-based manner by providing access to a variety of specialists including:

• Board-certified general surgeons specializing in hernia surgery
• Board-certified general surgeons specializing in minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic and robotic surgery)
• Board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeons for those patients who are not able to have direct closure or require abdominal wall reconstruction
• Wound care specialists for those patients with complex wounds
• Board-certified obesity medicine and bariatric surgery specialists to ensure that patients who suffer from obesity have the support they need before and after their hernia surgery
• Dieticians
• Psychologists
• Radiologists
• Wound care nurses
• Social workers