Editors
Editor-in-Chief:
Scott Shikora, MD, FACS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA
Editorial Office:
Deana Rodriguez, Managing Editor
Phone: +1 (562) 961-9928
Email: obsu.rodriguez@gmail.com
Advisory Editors:
Stacy Brethauer, MD, MBA, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, USA
Wendy Brown, PhD, Monash University Australia
Ricardo Cohen, MD, PhD, The Center for Obesity and Diabetes, Oswaldo Cruz German Hospital, Brazil
Khaled Gawdat, MD, PhD, Ain-Shams School of Medicine, Egypt
Michel Suter, MD, Department of Surgery, Riviera-Chablais Hospital, Rennaz, Switzerland; Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Associate Editors:
Edo Aarts, MD, PhD, Allurion Clinic, Netherlands
Andreas Panagiotis Alexandrou, MD, Laiko General Hospital, Greece
Luigi Angrisani, MD, Department of Public Health, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Eduardo Bastos PhD, Marilia Medical School, Brazil
Dale Bond, PhD, Hartford Hospital, USA
Luca Busetto, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Italy
Judy Chen, MD, University of Washington, USA
Jean-Marc Chevallier, MD, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, University of Paris, France
Anna Carolina Dantas, MD, FACS, Clinical Hospital FMUSP, Brazil
Jerome Dargent, MD, Polyclinique de Rillieux, France
Andrew de Beaux, MD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Joel Faintuch, MD, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Silvia Leite Faria, PhD, MSc, RD, University of Brazil, Brazil
Armour Forse, MD, PhD, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, USA
Antonio Gangemi, MD, FACS, University of Bologna, USA
Yitka NH Graham, PhD, University of Sunderland, UK
Jan Willem Greve, MD, PhD, Zuyderland Medical Center Heerlen, Netherlands
Mohammed Hadad MD, Kahlifa University of Science and Technology, UAE
Ashraf Haddad, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Gastrointestinal, Metabolic, and Bariatric Surgery Center (GBMC), Jordan Hospital, Jordan
Kevin Helling, MD, Wyoming Medical Center, USA
Jacques Himpens, MD, PhD, Delta Chirec Hospital Brussels, Belgium
Radwan Kassir, MD, PhD, The View Hospital, Qatar
Mohammad Kermansaravi, MD, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Wei-Jei Lee, MD, PhD, China Medical University Hsinchu Hospital Taiwan
Peter Nau, MD, University of Iowa, USA
Colm J. O'Boyle, MD, Bon Secours Hospital, Ireland
Manish Parikh, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center, USA
Walter Pories, MD, PhD, East Carolina University, USA
Malcolm Robinson, MD, Harvard University, USA
Mitchell Roslin, MD, Lenox Hill Hospital, USA
Alan Saber, MD, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, USA
David Sarwer, PhD, Temple University College, USA
Colleen Tewksbury, PhD, MRH, RD, LDN, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Phillippe Topart, MD, Clinique de l'Anjou, France
Antonio Torres, MD, PhD, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Antonio Vitiello, MD, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Rudolf Weiner, MD, PhD, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Richard Welbourn, MD, MBBS, FRCS, Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset Foundation Trust, Taunton UK; Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, UK
Wah Yang, MD, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, China
Social Media Editors
Kamal Mahawar, MD, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Manuela Mazzarella, IFSO Secretariat, Italy
Abdelrahman Nimeri, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA
Editorial Board
Sandeep Aggarwal, MS, FACS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Pierre Blanc, MD, Surgical Clinic Mutualiste, France
Cynthia Borg, MD, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, UK
William Braun, MD, PhD, Metro North Health, Australia
Cynthia Buffington, PhD, Advent Health, USA
Paul Robert Burton, MBBS, Monash University, Australia
Miguel-Angel Carbajo, MD, PhD, Center of Excellence for the Study and Treatment of the Obesity and Diabetes, Spain
Pradeep Chowbey, MD, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, India
Karen J. Coleman, MS, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine, USA
Daniel Cottam, MD, Bariatric Medicine Institute, USA
Michael Courtney MBBS, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Maurizio De Luca, MD, Institute of Surgery, Rovigo Hospital, Italy
John B. Dixon, MD, PhD, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Anne Pugel Ehlers, MD, MPH, University of Michigan, USA
Francis Finucane, MD, PhD, FRCPI, University of Galway, Ireland
Mirto Foletto, MD, University of Padova, Italy
Martin Fried, MD, PhD, Center for Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Czech Republic
Gema Fruhbeck, MD, PhD, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Manoel Galvao Neto, MD, Mohak Bariatric and Robotic Center, India
Amador García Ruiz de Gordejuela, Spain
Bruno Geloneze, MD, PhD, Obesity and Comorbities Research Center, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Daniel Gero, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Omar M. Ghanem, MD, Mayo Clinic, USA
John Gleysteen, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama, USA
Michael Goldberg, MD, Department of Surgery, Christiana Care, USA
John C. Gould, MD, MBA, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Alfredo Daniel Guerron, MD, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE
Naoki Hashimoto, MD, PhD, Sanda City Hospital, Japan
Jitka Herlesova, PhD, OB Clinic, Czech Republic
Donald Hess, MD, Boston University, USA
Kelvin Higa, MD, University of California San Francisco, USA
Antonio Iannelli, MD, PhD, Department of General and Digestive Surgery and Liver and Intestinal Transplants, University of Nice Côté d’Azur, France
Mohd Yasser Kayyal, MD, FRCS, FACS, Cork University Hospital Group, Ireland
Andrei Keidar, MD, Department of Surgery, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Lillian Kow, FRACS, Flinders University, Australia
Hendrikus Lemmens, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University, USA
Robert Lim, MD, Wake Forest University, USA
Conor Magee, MB, ChB, MD, FRCS, FFSTEd, Wirral University Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Nashwan Qahatan Mahgoob, MD, Cihan University, Iraq
Tom Mala, PhD, MD, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway
Ryan Marek, PhD, Sam Houston State University, USA
Francesco Martini, MD, Cèdres Clinique, France
Samer Mattar, MD, Swedish Medical Center, USA
Sameer Mattar, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Corrigan McBride, MD, MBA, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Karl Miller, MD, Department of General Surgery, Wehrle-Diakonissen Private Hospital Salzburg, Austria
Mohammad Ali Kalantar Motamedi, MD, University of Toronto, Canada
Alaa Abbass Sabry Moustafa, MD, FRCS, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Mario Musella, MD, Naples Federico II University, Italy
Patrick Noel, MD, Queen Hospital, Qatar
Mary O’Kane, B.Sc, M.Sc, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, UK
Robert O’Rourke, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, USA
Rodolfo Oviedo, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FICS, DABS-FPDMBS, FACS, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, University of Houston, USA
Chetan Parmar, MS, DNB, Department of Surgery, Whittington Hospital, UK
Zvi Perry, MD, PhD, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel
Ralph Peterli, MD, PhD, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Tarissa Petry, MD, PhD, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Tadeja Pintar, MD, PhD, UMC Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jamie Ponce, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FIFSO, DABS-FPMBS, DABOM, CHI Memorial Hospital, USA
Dimitri Pournaras, PhD, FRCS, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK
Luiz Gustavo de Quadros MD, PhD, MSc, Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa, Brazil
Almino Ramos, MD, Gastro-Obeso-Center-Advanced Institute for Digestive and Bariatric Surgery, Brazil
Fabian Reche, MD, University of Grenoble, France
Christine Ren Fielding, MD, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Andrew G. Robertson, PhD, FRCS, University of Edinburgh, UK
Raul Rosenthal MD, Cleveland Clinic Florida, USA
Lincoln Rothwell, MBChB, FRACS, Ipswich Bariatrics, Australia
Moshe Rubin, MD, University Tel Aviv, Israel
Andrés Sánchez-Pernaute, MD, PhD, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, University of Madrid, Spain
Carlos Aurelio Schiavon, MD, PhD, Brazil
Adriano Segal, MD, PhD, Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Outpatient Service, University Sao Paolo, Brazil
Kamran Shah, MD, Department of Upper GI and Metabolic Surgery, Gb Obesitas Skåne Ab, Sweden
Shashank Shah, MD, Laparo Obeso Centre, India
Ashish Sinha, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University, USA
Konstantinos Spaniolas, MD, MBA, Stony Brook University, USA
Kristine Steffen, PhD, North Dakota State University, USA
Christine Stier, MD, PhD, Department of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, University of Mannheim, Germany
Christine Stroh, MD, SRH Hospital Gera, Germany
Mustafa Taskin, MD, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Turkey
J. Graham Thomas, PhD, Rhode Island Hospital, USA
Bart Torensma, MSc, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Mahidhar Valeti, MD, Continental Hospitals Hyderabad, India
Tess van der Merwe, PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Bart van Wagensveld, PhD, Department of Surgery, Weight Management Center, NMC Royal Hospital, UAE
Peter Vasas, PhD, Bariatric Surgery Department, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, UK
Joseph Vidal, MD, Endocrinology Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Spain
Alan Wittgrove, MD, Wittgrove Bariatric Center, USA
Yury Yashkov, MD, PhD, Center of Endosurgery and Lithotripsy, Russia
Natan Zundel, MD, University of Buffalo, USA
IFSO Representative
Almino Ramos, MD, Gastro-Obeso-Center-Advanced Institute for Digestive and Bariatric Surgery, Brazil
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founding Editor
Mervyn Deitel, MD, Canada
Co-Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founding Editor
George S.M. Cowan, Jr., MD, USA
Editors Emeritus
Henry Buchwald, MD, USA
Nicola Scopinaro, MD, Italy