It is 1979 when the surgeons French, J. P. Chevrel, J. Rives and R. Stoppa damage the beginning to the history moderna surgery of hernia disease and abdominal wall.

A simple gathering of friends, and thus became the foundation of the GREPA, Groupe de Recherche et d'etude de la Paroi Abdominale; a scientific association, is a reference model that goes beyond the French borders and becomes a guide for the formation of many Italian surgeons.
The appointment of G. Trivellini to the presidency affirms, then, a path of growth and commitment for the research in the Bel paese.

From Europe to the world: born in 1998 of the European Hernia Society (EHS), whose members are currently over 700 surgeons representing 13 european Countries, divided in Chapters. The EHS, along with its sister Company, such as the American Hernia Society, the Asian Pacific Hernia Society, the Australian Hernia Society and the African and Middle East Hernia Society, to create a planetary network that has as a showcase, the First World Congress of Surgery of the Abdominal Wall, in Milan in 2015.

The Italian Society of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery (ISHAWS) was founded in December of 2003in Milan, as the Italian Chapter of the EHS, on the proposal of three founding members: G. P. Campanelli, F. Corcione, and V. Mandalà, and sees it as the first National Delegate P. Bocchi.

The ISHAWS, the Italian Chapter, is the National Chapter with the largest number of subscribers, in constant increase, all share a specific interest in the pathology and surgery of the abdominal wall.