SPEAKER AND MODERATOR GALLERY
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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
Adel Abou Mrad (France)
Orléans Regional Hospital
Sandeep Aggarwal (India)
Manipal Hospital, Dwarka, Delhi
Antonio Albuquerque (Portugal)
Surgeon at the Integrated Responsibility Center for Surgical Treatment of Obesity, São José Local, Lisbon
Aayed Alqahtani (Saudi Arabia)
Innovative Care Co/New You Medical Center, Riyadh
Santi Azagra (Luxemburg)
Department of General, Mini-Invasive, Oncologic Surgery, Luxembourg
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Aparna Govil Bhasker (India)
Bhadran Nagar-Kandivali West, Mumbai
Marina Bilcarevic-Dragovic (Germany)
Klinikum Lippe Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Operative Intensivmedizin
Dieter Birk (Germany)
Krankenhaus Bietigheim-Vaihingen Klinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie
Pierre Blanc (France)
Laparoscopic, surgery, robotic surgery, endoscopy, bariatric surgery, hernia repair surgery, endocrine surgery Centre Mutualiste de l'obésité (C.M.O.),Saint Etienne
Susanne Blank (Germany)
Senior physician, Deputy Head of Section Upper Gastrointestinal Tract with focus on Bariatrics University, Medical Centre Mannheim
Matthias Blueher (Germany)
Professor of Clinical Obesity Research at Leipzig University and Senior Physician at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Endocrinology and Nephrology at Leipzig University Hospital
Irina Blumenstein (Germany)
Frankfurt University Hospital Outpatient clinic for chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Ayse Bozok (Belgium)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Doctor specialising in general surgery
Martin Buesing (Germany)
Klinikum Vest, Specialist for Surgery, Visceral Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Physical Therapy, Special Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, Recklinghausen
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Lidia Castagneto Gissey (Italy)
General SurgeonResearcher at Sapienza University of Rome
Sonja Chiappetta (Italy)
Obesity and Metabolic Surgery, Ospedale Evangelico Betania, Naples
Vasiliki Christogianni (Germany)
Klinikum Vest, Specialist for Surgery, Visceral Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Physical Therapy, Special Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, Recklinghausen
Catarina Conte (Italy)
Professor of Internal Medicine at San Raffaele Roma University in Rome
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Amir Hossein Davarpanah (Iran)
Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Muhammed Taha Demirpolat (Türkiye)
General Surgery, Medical Park Bahçelievler
Keren Denesh (Israel)
Doctor at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Bruno Dillemans (Belgium)
Coordinator Obesity Surgery Center, General, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery, Bruges
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Moritz Felsenreich (Austria)
Medical University of Vienna, General Surgery
Jodok Fink (Germany)
University Hospital Freiburg, Department of Surgery, Clinic for General and Visceral Surgery
Anne Freund (Germany)
Sana Klinikum Offenbach, Specialist for general surgery
Martin Fried (Czech Republic)
Head of the OB klinika - Center for Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Prague
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Till Hasenberg (Germany)
Head Physician of General, Visceral Surgery and Coloproctology and Deputy Medical Director of Helios Clinic Oberhausen
Eric Hazebroek (The Netherlands)
Surgeon specializing in Upper GI and metabolic bariatric surgery at Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem
Jacque Himpens (Belgium)
Hôpital Universitaire St Pierre, Brussels, Belgium
Chris Hinnen (The Netherlands)
Medical Professional at Spaarne Gasthuis
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Georg Kaehler (Germany)
Former President German Society for Endoscopy, CEO Trans-Duodenal Concepts
Konrad Woitek Karcz (Germany)
Professor of Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
Mohammad Kermansaravi (Iran)
Associate professor of surgery and MIS/bariatric surgery fellowship program, co-director at Hazrat-E Fatemeh Hospital
Wolfram Kessler (Germany)
Clinic and Polyclinic for General Surgery University Medical Centre Greifswald
Muhammad Sohaib Khan (Pakistan)
Consultant Bariatric and Minimal Invasive Upper GI Surgeon, Shifa International Hospitals Islamabad
James Kinross (UK)
senior lecturer in colorectal surgery and a consultant surgeon at Imperial College London
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Luigi Marano (Poland)
Professor at the Department of Medicine, Academy of Applied Medical and Social Sciences
Goran Marjanovic (Germany)
University Medical Centre Freiburg, Senior Physician, Head of the Section for Obesity and Metabolic Surgery
Silke Mertmann (Germany)
Klinikum Landkreis Tuttlingen gGmbH, Tuttlingen
Karl Miller (Austria)
Consultant Surgeon & Head of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgical Unit, Diakonissen Salzburg
Hamid Mofid (Germany)
Head of Surgery at the Regio Clinics in Elmshorn and Pinneberg
Alex Morera (Spain)
MBS & HPB surgery || Consorci Sanitari del Maresme Barcelona
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Ilaria Panzeri (United States)
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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-Koehler (Germany)
Bielefeld Hospital Obesity Centre
Chetan Parmar (UK)
Head of the department of surgery at Whittington Health NHS Trust, London
François Pattou (France)
Lille University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Lille
Klaus Peitgen (Germany)
GFO Clinics Lower Rhine – St. Vinzenz Hospital Head Physician, General and Visceral Surgery
Silvana Perretta (France)
IRCAD-EITS University of Strasbourg, Chief of Foregut and advanced Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Division
Adisa Poljo (Switzerland)
Department of Visceral Surgery. Clarunis – University Abdominal Centre Basel
Sjaak Pouwels (Germany)
Department of Surgery, Marien Hospital Herne, University Hospital of Ruhr University Bochum / Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg
Gerhard Prager (Austria)
Head of the Obesity Outpatient Clinic at the University Clinic, Surgery at Vienna General Hospital (AKH)
Arun Prasad (India)
Adj Professor & Distinguished Clinical Tutor, General Surgery, Surgical Gastroenterology, Robotic and Bariatric Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
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Marco Raffaelli (Italy)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Juan Pujol Rafols (Spain)
Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
Andrea Rech (Germany)
University Hospital Mannheim Visceral Oncology Centre
Karl Rheinwalt (Germany)
Specialist in surgery, visceral and trauma surgery, special visceral surgery, Obesity Center Cologne-Ehrenfeld
Rui Ribeiro (Lisboa)
Universidade de Lisboa, “Senior Consultant” degree in General Surgery
Maud Robert (France)
Senior Surgeon of the Digestive and Bariatric Surgery Unit of the Edouard Herriot University Hospital, Lyon
Ansgar Roehrborn (Germany)
St. Barbara Clinic Hamm-Heessen Specialist in surgery and special visceral surgery. Senior consultant
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Nasser Sakran (Israel)
Herzliya Medical Center, Director of Bariatric Surgery Center, Emek Medical Center
Paulina Salminen (Finland)
University of Turku
Johannes Sander (Germany)
University Hospital Würzburg, Centres for Obesity and Metabolic Surgery
Oliver Scheffel (Germany)
Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery and Endoscopy
Sylke Schneider-Koriath (Germany)
Rostock South City Hospital General and Visceral Surgery
Anke Schwarz (Germany)
University Hospital Mannheim Visceral Oncology Centre
Gabriel Seifert (Germany)
University Medical Centre Freiburg, Colorectal and bariatric surgeon, clinician scientist
Shahab Shahabi (Iran)
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Arya Sharma (Germany)
Charité Berlin
Frans Smulders (The Netherlands)
Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven
Ayman Soliman (Germany)
Head of Department & Director of Obesity Clinic
Thilo Sprenger (Germany)
University Hospital Giessen and Marburg Head of the Obesity Surgery Section
Christine Stier (Germany)
Mannheim Hospital, Head of Bariatric Endoscopy
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Pim W.J. van Rutte (The Netherlands)
Amsterdam University Medical Center. Department of Surgery; Amsterdam
Ramon Vilallonga (Spain)
Head Endocrine-Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Unit. Vall Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus
Miljana Vladimirov (Germany)
Head of Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at University Bielefeld-Campus Lippe, OWL, Detmold
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Ala Wafa (Lybia)
Consultant Bariatric Surgery at Gaddur Medical Center - Libya, Assistant Professor of Surgery
Sylvia Weiner (Germany)
Sana Klinikum Offenbach, Chief Physician, Specialist in General and Visceral Surgery
Rudolf Weiner (Germany)
Clinic for Metabolic Surgery, Sana-Klinikum Offenbach, Senior-Consultant
Armin Wiegering (Germany)
Frankfurt University Hospital Department of General, Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery