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Edo Aarts (The Netherlands)
Surgical resident, Head of Bariatric Research dept. Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem

Tamer Abdelbaki (Egypt)
Professor of Surgery, Alexandria University, Faculty of Medicine

Adam Abu Abeid (Israel)
Bariatric Surgeon, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Adel Abou-Mrad (France)
Visceral and Digestive Surgeon at the Orléans Regional Hospital

Barham Abu Dayyeh (USA)
Executive Director and Associate Dean for Innovation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

Sandeep Aggarwal (India)
Head of the Department of Bariatric Surgeryat the Manipal Hospital Dwarka, Delhi

Francesco Agnesini (Italy)
International Market Development Lead Endobariatric at Boston Scientific, Milano

Aayed Al-Qahtani (Saudi Arabia)
Professor and Consultant of MIS and Obesity Surgery at King Saud University, Riyadh

Antonio Albuquerque (Portugal)
Head of the General Surgery Department at Cruz Vermelha Hospital

Peter Alter (Germany)
Senior Consultant at Philipps University of Marburg

Ellen Andersson (Sweden)
Consultant at Linköping University

Luigi Angrisani (Italy)
Professor of General Surgery at the University of Naples Federico II, Department of Public Health

Mohamed Hany Ashour (Egypt)
Professor of Surgery at the Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University
B

Annette Bachmann (Germany)
Senior Attending Physician and Head of the Division of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine at University Hospital Frankfurt

Karsten Behle (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine, Diabetology, Lipidology and Metabolic Therapy, Cologne

Amanda Belluzzi (Italy)
Surgeon in the Department of General, Emergency and Metabolic Surgery, Rovigo Hospital

Tobias Bertsch (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine at the Földiklinik, Hinterzarten

Aparna Govil Bhasker (India)
Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgeon at the MetaHeal Laparoscopy and Bariatric Surgery Center, Mumbai

Clarisa Birlog (Romania)
Medical Doctor at the Ponderas Academic Hospital, Bucharest

Pierre Blanc (France)
Visceral and Digestive Surgeon, Specializing in Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery at Clinique Mutualiste Chirurgicale, Saint-Étienne

Susanne Blank (Germany)
Senior physician, Deputy Director of the Obesity Center, University Medical Center, Mannheim

Matthias Blüher (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetology at Leipzig University Hospital

Evert-Jan Boerma (Netherlands)
Gastrointestinal Surgeon at Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen/Sittard-Geleen

Beatrix Böllhoff (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine, Berlin

Pieter Broos (Netherlands)
Surgeon specializing in Bariatrics and Obesity at ZuyderlandMedical Center, Heerlen/Sittard-Geleen

Martin Büsing (Germany)
Director of Surgical Clinic I, Knappschaft Kliniken Recklinghausen
C

Lidia Castagneto Gissey (Italy)
General Surgeon & Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome

Dana Charpentier (Czech Republic)
Bariatric Surgeon at the OB KLINIKA, a.s in Prague

Sonja Chiappetta (Italy)
General and Bariatric Surgery, Ospedale Evangelico Betania, Naples

Caterina Conte (Italy)
Professor of Internal Medicine at San Raffaele Roma University in Rome

Thibaut Coste (France)
General, Digestive, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgeon at Polyclinique Sainte Thérèse, Sète
D

Cristóbal Davanzo (Chile)
General and Digestive Surgeon; Director of Surgery at CONACEM, Gran Santiago

Amir Hossein Davarpanah (Iran)
Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

Maurizio De Luca (Italy)
Head of the Department of General Surgery, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza

Muhammed Taha Demirpolat (Türkiye)
General Surgery, Emsey Hospital

Keren Denesh (Israel)
Doctor at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Aureo DePaula (Brazil)
Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Hospital de Especialidades, Goiânia

Bruno Dillemans (Belgium)
General & Bariatric Surgery, Center of Obesity Surgery in the AZ Sint-Jan Hospital in Bruges, Bruges

Adrian Dragu (Germany)
Managing Director and Full Professor, Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
E

Thomas Ebert (Germany)
Endocrinologist & Diabetologist at the University of Leipzig

Luciana El-Kadre (Brazil)
Surgeon at the Center for Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Health, Rio de Janeiro

Enrique Fernando Elli (USA)
Surgical Director of the Bariatric Program, Associate Professor of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville

Gabriele Erbacher (Germany)
Psychologist at the Földiklinik, Hinterzarten
F

Moritz Felsenreich (Austria)
General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna

Carlos Ferrigni (Spain)
Specialist Physician, Department of General and Digestive Surgery, University Hospital Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles

Jodok Fink (Germany)
Specialist in Visceral Surgery at the Kreiskrankenhaus Emmendingen

Martin Fried (Czech Republic)
Head of the OB klinika - Center for Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Prague
G

Michel Gagner (Canada)
Director and Chief of Surgery, Westmount Square Surgical Center, Montreal

Daniel Gärtner (Germany)
Head of the Obesity Surgery Section, Municipal Hospital Karlsruhe

Alex Gandsas (USA)
Director, Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery Program, Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center, New Jersey

Goetz Giessler (Switzerland)
Specialist in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Zug

Mário Rui Gonçalves (Portugal)
General Surgeon specializing in Abdominal Wall and Bariatric Surgery at the Hospital de Braga; Founder of the First Touch Academy
H

Ruth Hanßen (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetology at the Uniklinikum Köln

Alexandre Henrard (Belgium)
General & Digestive Surgeon at the Regional Hospital Center of Huy

Stephan Herrmann (Germany)
Medical Doctor at University Medical Center Freiburg

Jacque Himpens (Belgium)
Chief of Bariatric Surgery, CHIREC Hospitals, Brussels

Christoph Hirche (Germany)
Director of the Department of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery; Hand Trauma Center, BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main

Craig Hole (USA)
Senior Director Professional Education, International, Morphic Medical, Boston

Tim Hollstein (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology/Diabetology at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
K

Georg Kähler (Germany)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Trans-Duodenal Concepts GmbH, Mannheim

Mohammad Kermansaravi (Iran)
Associate professor of surgery and MIS/bariatric surgery fellowship program, co-director at Hazrat-E Fatemeh Hospital

Wolfram Keßler (Germany)
Specialist in Surgery and Visceral Surgery, Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald

Seiichi Kitahama (Japan)
Director of the Center for Obesity, Diabetes and Endocrinology at Chibune General Hospital

Cüneyt Kırkıl (Türkiye)
General & Bariatric Surgery at the Fırat University Hospital, Elazığ

Viktoria Köhler (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine at Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt

Michaela Köhm (Germany)
Senior Physician, Rheumatology Outpatient Clinic, Department of Medicine 2, University Hospital Frankfurt

Michael Kremer (Germany)
Head of the Endoprosthetics Unit (EPZmax) Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedics BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main
L

Panagiotis Lainas (Greece)
Head of Department of Metabolic Bariatric Surgery & Consultant General Surgeon, Metropolitan Hospital, Athens

André Lázaro (Portugal)
Doctor of Medicine & Consultant at Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Pombal

Carel Le Roux (Ireland)
Professor and Chair of Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Medicine, and Director of the Metabolic Medicine Group, University College Dublin

Gang Li (China)
Gastrointestinal Surgery Department, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, HUST Wuhan, China
M

Kamal Kumar Mahawar (UK)
General/Bariatric Surgeon & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Lead at the Sunderland Royal Hospital

Goran Marjanovic (Germany)
Senior Physician and Head of the Section for Obesity and Metabolic Surgery, University Medical Center Freiburg

Silke Mertmann (Germany)
Senior Consultant, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, and Medical Director of the Obesity Center, Klinikum Landkreis Tuttlingen

Gesine Meyer (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine at Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt

Anne Kristin Meyer-Gerspach (Switzerland)
Co-Head Metabolic and Gastroenterology Research at St. Claraspital, Basel

Karl Miller (Austria)
Consultant Surgeon & Head of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgical Unit, Diakonissen Salzburg

Alex Morera (Spain)
MBS & HPB surgery || Consorci Sanitari del Maresme Barcelona

Melodi Motamedi (Germany)
Specialist in plastic and cosmetic surgery at the Sana Klinikum Hameln-Pyrmont

Timo Müller (Germany)
Director, Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO), Helmholtz Munich

Mario Musella (Italy)
Director, Complex Operating Unit of General, Bariatric, Endocrine-Metabolic and Breast Surgery, Federico II University Hospital, Naples

Piotr Myśliwiec (Poland)
Assistant Professor in Medical University of Bialystok, 1st Department of General end Endocrinological Surgery
P

Francesco Saverio Papadia (Italy)
Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics (DISC), School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Genoa

Carolina Pape-Köhler (Germany)
Chief Physician, Obesity Clinic, Klinikum Bielefeld – Rosenhöhe

Chetan Parmar (UK)
Head of the department of surgery at Whittington Health NHS Trust, London

Bengy Pascotto (Luxembourg)
General Surgeon at Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg

François Pattou (France)
Head of the Department of General and Endocrine Surgery, CHU Lille

Silvana Perretta (France)
IRCAD-EITS University of Strasbourg, Chief of Foregut and advanced Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Division

Dominik Pesta (Germany)
Head of the Department of Metabolism and Human Performance, German Aerospace Center at the University of Cologne

Alexander Pfeifer(Germany)
Director of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Hospital Bonn

Andreas Plamper (Germany)
Senior Attending at St. Franziskus-Hospital

Adisa Poljo (Switzerland)
Surgical Resident, Department of Visceral Surgery, Clarunis – University Digestive Health Care Center Basel

Jaime Ponce (USA)
Medical Director and Bariatric Surgeon, The Weight Loss Center of Chattanooga; Founder and Medical Director, Bariatric Surgery Program

Sjaak Pouwels (Germany)
Department of Surgery, Bielefeld University – Campus Detmold (Klinikum Lippe)

Gerhard Prager (Austria)
Head of the Obesity Outpatient Clinic at the University Clinic, Surgery at Vienna General Hospital (AKH)

Arun Prasad (India)
Senior Consultant, General, GI & Bariatric Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
R

Maida Ragibović (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine at the SANA Klinikum, Offenbach

Stefan Rapprich (Germany)
Specialist in Lipoedema and Senior Consultant at Hautmedizin Bad Soden

Paulo Reis (Brazil)
Founder & Director, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery, Instituto Paulo Reis, Goiânia; Coordinator, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery Service, Hospital Estadual Geral de Goiânia (HGG)

Karl-Peter Rheinwalt (Germany)
Head of the Department of Bariatric, Metabolic and Plastic Surgery at St. Franziskus Hospital in Cologne

Rui Ribeiro (Portugal)
Senior Consultant, General & Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery, and Coordinator/Director, Centro Multidisciplinar da Doença Metabólica (CMDM), Clínica de Santo António, Lisbon

Maud Robert (France)
Professor of Digestive & Bariatric Surgery and Lead for Bariatric Surgery, Department of Digestive Surgery / Centre Spécialisé de l'Obésité, Hôpital Edouard Herriot

Anja Roßmeißl (Germany)
Consultant, Obesity & Metabolic Medicine, Department of Surgery, Technical University of Munich

Elena Ruiz-Úcar (Spain)
Bariatric-Metabolic & Endocrine Surgeon, Metabolic and Endocrine Unit, Department of General & Digestive Surgery, Fuenlabrada University Hospital, Madrid
S

Nasser Sakran (Israel)
Head of the Department of General Surgery, Holy Family Hospital, Nazareth

Paulina Salminen (Finland)
Chief of Surgery, Turku University Hospital

Johannes Sander (Germany)
University Hospital Würzburg, Centres for Obesity and Metabolic Surgery

Sérgio Santoro (Brazil)
Metabolic & Bariatric Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo

Andrea Schenk (Germany)
Head of the Department of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck

Gabriel Seifert (Germany)
Consultant Surgeon & Head, Colorectal Surgery, Department of General & Visceral Surgery, University Medical Center Freiburg

Vanadin Seifert-Klauss (Germany)
Head of the Endometriosis Centre & the Osteoporosis Center at the Technical University of Munich

Florian Seyfried (Germany)
Head of Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery, Department of Surgery I (General, Visceral, Transplantation, Vascular & Paediatric Surgery), University Hospital Würzburg

Shahab Shahabi (Iran)
Consultant Bariatric & Minimally Invasive Surgeon, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

Arya Sharma (Germany)
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Department of Medicine Berlin

Ayman Soliman (Germany)
Professor of General & laparoscopic Surgery - Ain Shams University (Faculty of Medicine)

Thimoteus Speer (Germany)
Professor & Director, Department of Medicine 4 – Nephrology, University Hospital Frankfurt

Manuel Spitschan (Germany)
Assistant Professor for Chronobiology and Health Technical, University of Munich, TUM School of Medicine and Health

Thilo Sprenger (Germany)
Head of the Department of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Knappschaft Kliniken Recklinghausen

Jürgen Stein (Germany)
Head of Gastroenterology & Clinical Nutrition, DGD Kliniken Frankfurt Sachsenhausen

Christine Stier (Germany)
Head of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, Department of Surgery, University Medicine Mannheim

Robert Stöhr (Germany)
Consultant, Cardiology & Internal Intensive Care Medicine, University Heart & Vascular Centre, University Hospital Frankfurt

Christine Stroh (Germany)
Professor & Head, Clinic for Obesity & Metabolic Surgery, SRH Wald-Klinikum Gera

Petra Stute (Switzerland)
Deputy Director & Leading Physician, Gynaecological Endocrinology & Reproductive Medicine, and Director of the Menopause Centre, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Inselspital Bern
T

Safwan Taha (United Arab Emirates)
Professor of Surgery and Medical Director & Director/Lead Surgeon, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery Centre, Mediclinic Airport Road Hospital, Abu Dhabi

Jordi Tarascó (Spain)
Consultant Surgeon, Department of General & Digestive Surgery, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona

Andre Teixeira (USA)
General and Bariatric Surgeon at Orlando Health

Meike ten Winkel (Germany)
Medical Doctor, Department of Surgery at the University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Lübeck

Katharina Timper (Germany)
Chair of Clinical Nutritional Medicine and Medical Director, TUM University Hospital, Munich

Philippe Topart (France)
Consultant Bariatric & Metabolic Surgeon, Société de Chirurgie Viscérale, Clinique de l'Anjou, Angers

Antonio Torres (Spain)
Head of the Department of General & Digestive Surgery, Hospital Clínico San Carlos

Andreas Türler (Germany)
Visceral Surgeon at Protestant Hospitals in Bonn
V

Carlos Vaz (Portugal)
Chief Medical Officer at Hospital CUF Tejo, Lisbon

Amar Vennapusa (India)
Chief Consultant Bariatric & Metabolic Surgeon at Dr. Amar Bariatric & Metabolic Center

Ramon Vilallonga (Spain)
Head Endocrine-Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Unit. Vall Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus

Antonio Vitiello (Italy)
Consultant Bariatric & Metabolic Surgeon and Researcher, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II

Miljana Vladimirov (Germany)
Head of Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at University Bielefeld-Campus Lippe, OWL, Detmold
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Simon Wernhart (Germany)
Senior Consultant, Preventive Sports Medicine & Sports Cardiology, Technical University of Munich

Ala Wafa (Lybia)
Consultant Bariatric Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Aljazeera International Hospital, Misurata

Sylvia Weiner (Germany)
Chief Physician, Specialist in General and Visceral Surgery, Obesity Centre, Frankfurt a.M.

Rudolf Weiner (Germany)
Past President IFSO (2014-2025) & Founding president of CAADIP

Christoph Welsch (Germany)
Specialist in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt

Tim Werner (Germany)
Attorney specialized in Social Law, Werner Rechtsanwälte, Frankfurt

Armin Wiegering (Germany)
Director of the Department of General, Visceral, Transplantation & Thoracic Surgery, University Medicine Frankfurt
Z

Roxanna Zakeri (UK)
Honorary Associate Professor at University College London

Stefan Zeuzem (Germany)
Director, Medical Clinic 1 – Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Pneumology & Allergology, Endocrinology & Diabetology and Nutritional Medicine, University Hospital Frankfurt

Ricardo Zorron (Germany)
Coordenador, Centro de Inovação em Cirurgia e Obesidade Hospital CUF Descobertas, Lisbon









