Established by a handful of French surgeons in 1979, the former GREPA spread out all over Europe to become the European Hernia Society-GREPA in 1998.
Serbia
| Name of Chapter | Serbian Hernia Society |
| Date of Constitution | 12.05.2001 |
| Names of founding members | Veroljub Pejcic, Bojan Radovanic, Mihailo Cernisevski, Miodrag Cudomirovic |
| President of National Chapter | Marinko Zuvela |
| National delegate of National Chapter | Bojan Radovanovic |
| Contact | Daniel Galun |
| Website | www.uhs.rs |

