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

Judith Aron-Wisnewsky (France)
CSO Île-de-France Est Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière Service de Nutrition, Paris

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

Mário Rui Gonçalves (Portugal)
Abdominal Wall and Bariatric Surgeon Assistant Professor, University of Beira Interior, Portugal General Coordinator, CUBI Surgical Simulation Center, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
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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)
Iran 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

Sven Wehner (Germany)
Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery / Department of Surgery Bonn, Germany

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




















