Kareem M. Abu-Elmagd, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Director of Gut Rehabilitation and Transplant Center
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Mohammad Alsulaimy, MD
Department of Surgery & Urology
Al-Sabah Hospital
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Maria S. Altieri MD, MS
Resident Physician
Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook, NY
Ali Aminian, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Amin Andalib, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Center for Bariatric Surgery
Department of Surgery
McGill University
Montréal, QC, Canada
John R. Bartholomew, MD
Professor of Medicine Section Head, Vascular Medicine
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland, OH
Esam Batayyah, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Director of Bariatric Institute
Aseer Central Hospital
Abha South Province
Saudi Arabia
Laurent Biertho, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery
Quebec Heart and Lung Institute
Laval University
Quebec, QC, Canada
Eric S. Bour, MD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
Piedmont Newton
Covington, GA
Amanda R. Budak, RN, CBN, PhD
Vice President of Clinical Operations
OmniSure Consulting Group, LLC
Austin, TX
Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director of Obesity Programs
Endocrinology & Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Derrick Cetin, DO
Obesity Medicine, Bariatric & Metabolic Institute
Digestive Disease Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
Ricard Corcelles MD, PhD, FACS
Consultant Physician
General Surgery, Digestive Diseases Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirites
Guilherme Costa, MD
Surgeon
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Eric J. De Maria, MD
Bariatric Surgeon
Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital
Richmond, VA
Ofer Eldar, MD
Barzilai Medical Center
Ashkelon, Israel
Shai Meron Eldar, MD
Bariatric Surgeon
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Michael P. Federle, MD
Professor of Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Christine Ren Fielding, MD
Professor of Surgery
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY
Maggie M. Finkelstein, JD
Healthcare Attorney
Gordon & Rees
Lancaster, PA
Tammy S. Fouse, DO
Medical Director
The Weight Loss Center
Bingham Memorial Hospital
Blackfoot, ID
Catherine Frenkel, MD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Otolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery
Philadelphia, PA
Masato Fujiki, MD
Surgeon
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Antonio José Torres Garcia, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS
Professor of Surgery
Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Madrid, Spain
Christopher Gentile, MD
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center
New York, NY
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
Michael O. Griffin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
A. Daniel Guerron, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
Division of Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery
Duke University Health System
Durham, NC
Amani Mohamed Hag, MD, DO
Internal Medicine
Youngstown, OH
Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD
Transplant Surgeon
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Kevin D. Helling, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Wyoming Surgical Associates
Casper, WY
Jorge A. Huaco Cateriano, MD, MPH, FACS
Bariatric and General Surgery
Southcoast Hospitals Group
Wareham, MA
MichaŁ Robert Janik, MD, PhD
Department of General, Oncologic, Metabolic and Thoracic Surgery
Military Institute of Medicine
Warszawa, Poland
Seyed Mohammad Kalantar Motamedi, MD, MPH
Research Fellow
Department of Surgery
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
Sangeeta Kashyap, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Ajai Khanna, MD
Surgeon
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Ashish Khanna, MD, FCCP
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Staff Intensivist & Anesthesiologist
Vice-Chief for Research
Center for Critical Care
Quality Director, CCHS-Select Medical JV
Staff Department of Outcomes Research
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
Reen Khatib, MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Zhamak Khorgami, MD
Chief Resident, General Surgery Department
University of Oklahoma Medical School
Tulsa, OK
Haris A. Khwaja, MD, DPhil (Oxon), FRCS
Consultant Bariatric and Gastrointestinal Surgeon
Phoenix Health Bariatric Surgery Supercentre
Chester, UK
Claudia Jin Kim, MD
General Surgery
Genesis HealthCare System
Zanesville, OH
Matthew Kroh, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Chairman
Digestive Disease Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Associate Professor of Surgery
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirites
Olga Lavryk, MD
Surgical Resident
Digestive Disease Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director, Department of Clinical Research
The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Digestive Disease Institute
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, FL
Picard Marceau, MD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery
Laval University
Quebec City, QC, Canada
Eric Marcotte, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Assistant Professor
GI/Minimally Invasive Surgery and Bariatric Surgery
Loyola University Chicago
Maywood, IL
Adriana Martin, MD
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Piyush Mathur, MD, FCCM
Staff Anesthesiologist, Intensivist
Quality Improvement Officer
Program Director, Anesthesiology Critical Care Fellowship Program
Anesthesiology Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Ivan Alberto Zepeda Mejia, MD
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Ashok Menon, MD, MB, BChir (Cantab), ChM, FRCS (EdinO)
Consultant General and Bariatric Surgeon
Phoenix Health
Wirral University Teaching Hospital
NHS Foundation Trust
Stockport, UK
Anthony B. Mozer, MD, MBA
Chief Resident, General Surgery
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Sankar D. Navaneethan, MD, MS, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine Section of Nephrology
Baylor College of Medicine
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Houston, TX
Manoel Galvao Neto, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Florida International University
Miami, FL
Zubaidah Nor Hanipah, MD
Surgeon/Fellow
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Alex Ordoñez, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Director, Weight Loss Surgery Center
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas
Beaumont, TX
Ariel Ortiz Lagardere, MD, FACS
President and Director Bariatric Surgery
Obesity Control Center
Tijuana, Mexico
Andrés Sánchez Pernaute, MD
Chief, Esophago-Gastric and Bariatric Surgery Unit
Hospital Clinico San Carlos
Madrid, Spain
Jaime Ponce MD, FACS, FASMBS
Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery
CHI Memorial Hospital
Chattanooga, TN
Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD
Lynda and Marlin Younker Chair in Developmental Endoscopy
Professor of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Walter J. Pories, MD, FACS, Colonel MC USA (RET)
Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry and Kinesiology
Director, Metabolic Surgery Research Group
Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Aurora Pryor, MD
Professor of Surgery
Chief Bariatric, Foregut and Advanced GI Surgery
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
Rocío Santos Rancaño, MD, PhD
Fellow of the Spanish College of Surgeons
Consultant Physician in General Surgery Service Department of Surgery
San Carlos Clinic Hospital
Madrid, Spain
Maud Robert, MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow
Quebec Heart and Lung Institute
Laval University
Quebec, QC, Canada
John H. Rodriguez, MD, FACS
Section of Surgical Endoscopy
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Tomasz G. Rogula, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Division Chief, General Surgery
Co-Director, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center
Cleveland, OH
Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Professor of Surgery and Chairman
Department of General Surgery Director, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic Florida Weston, FL
Christina M. Rummel, PhD
Psychologist
Summa Health System
Bariatric Care Center
Akron, OH
Adel Alhaj Saleh, MD, MRCS
Research Fellow
Department of Surgery
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Cleveland Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
James W. Saxton, Esq.
CEO, Staxton & Stump
Lancaster, PA
Philip R. Schauer, MD
Professor of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Director, Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Cleveland, OH
Monica Sethi, MD
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY
Scott A. Shikora, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Hideharu Shimizu, MD, PhD
Division Chief of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Senior Consultant of General Surgery
Tokyo Metropolitan Trauma Medical Center
Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Shobana Sivan, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Konstantinos Spaniolas, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Associate Director, Bariatric and Metabolic Weight Loss Center
Stony Brook University Hospital
Centereach, NY
Samuel Szomstein, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Associate Director
The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute and Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Director, Advance Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Program
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
Florida International University
Weston, FL
Maria R. Ver, MD, FACS
Bariatric Surgery
Pali Momi Medical Center
360 Weight Management Program
Aiea, HI
