Dr. Jacob thanks the international faculty (representing 14 countries!) who helped teach the laparoscopic inguinal hernia course at the 2012 meeting of the American Hernia Society.
- Reinhard Bittner, Germany
- Volker Schumpelick, Germany
- Leandro Cavazzola, Brazil
- Carl Doerhoff, USA
- Leonid Lantsberg, Israel
- Alexander Morrell, Brazil
- Marc Miserez, Belgium
- Jim McGinty, USA
- William Cobb, USA
- Alberto Acevedo, Chile
- Alan Schuricht, USA
- Mark Reiner, USA
- Ed Felix, USA
- Bruce Ramshaw, USA
- Marcelo Furtado, Brazil
- Agneta Montgomery, Sweden
- Scott Roth, USA
- Anthony Vine, USA
- Andres Hanssen, Venezuela
- Juan Maygoitia Gonzalez, Mexico
- Gaetan Brochu, Canada
- Alejandro De La Torre, Argentina
- Rene Fortelny, Austria
- Giampiero Campanelli, Italy
- Davide Lomanto, Singapore
- Jochen Schwarz, Germany
- Ferdinand Kockerling, Germany
