About Dr. David Grischkan

Dr. David Grischkan, the medical director of the Hernia Center of Ohio, is a native of Canada. He trained at McGill University in Montreal and acquired extensive training in the Shouldice hernia technique.

He was invited to the Cleveland Clinic in 1976 and left in 1979 to embark upon a teaching career and a private surgical practice.

In 1984, he founded the Hernia Center of Ohio as a center of excellence for hernias, devoting full-time to this specialty. Using the Shouldice, Canadian repair he pioneered outpatient hernia surgery in this part of the country. With his extensive experience, he began the evolution to the modified Shouldice technique to facilitate the procedure for patient comfort.

He has been an invited lecturer in hernia surgery at numerous American universities around the country. Additionally, in 1992, he co-chaired a session at an international symposium on hernia surgery at Louvin University in Belgium. The next year, he was the keynote speaker at two international meetings in Italy.

In 1997, Dr. David Grischkan was a principal investigator for a national research project to evaluate a new mesh for implantation in hernia surgery. This study was presented at an international meeting and the data published in 1999.

To date, Dr. David Grischkan has performed well over 20,000 hernia repairs utilizing the modified Shouldice technique. Many of these patients, referred from all over the country, were very difficult recurrences for which most surgeons were unwilling to perform the surgery.