Editor-in-Chief
Horacio J. Asbun, MD, FACS
Baptist Hospital of Miami
Miami, FL
Editors
Daniel B. Jones, MD, FACS
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Alfons Pomp, MD, FACS, FRCSC
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
Raul Rosenthal, MD, FACS
Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine
Florida International University
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, FL
Contributors
Cheguevara Afaneh, MD, FACS
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
Jeff W. Allen, MD, FACS
Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi, India
Vamsi Alli, MD
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook, NY
Luigi Angrisani, MD
University of Naples Federico II
San Giovanni Bosco Hospital
Italy
Amir Aryaie MD, FACS
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX
Dan Elison Azagury, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Gene Bakis, MD
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR
Omar Bellorin, MD
Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine
Valley Medical Group of Valley Hospital
Ridgewood, New Jersey
George Blackburn, MD, PhD, FACS*
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Steven Bowers, MD, FACS
Emory University School of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL
Italo Braghetto, MD, FACS
University of Chile
Santiago, Chile
Stacy Brethauer, MD, FACS
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Robert Brolin, MD, FACS
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick
Plainsboro, NJ
Andrew R. Brownlee, MD
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, NY
Jean-Mark Chevallier, MD, PhD
Hopital European Georges Pompidou
Paris, France
Josemberg Marins Campos, MD, PhD, FACS
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) Faculdade de Medicina
Recife, Brazil
Pedro Caravatto, MD
Hospital Oswaldo Cruz
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bipan Chand, MD, FACS
Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, IL
Julietta Chang, MD
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
Leonardo Claros, MD, FACS
Faculty of Medicine, University Mayer De San Andres
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Ricardo Cohen, MD, FACS
Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas de Santa Casa de Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Collin Creange, MD
New Jersey Medical
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY
Gregory Dakin, MD, FACS
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
Eric Demaria, MD, FACS
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Shaina Eckhouse, MD, FACS
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO
Maher El Chaar, MD
St Luke's Hospital
Allentown, PA
Enrique Fernando Elli, MD, FACS
Mayo Clinic Florida
Jacksonville, FL
Ernesto Escobar Dominguez, MD
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, FL
Geoffrey Fasen, MD
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, VA
George Fielding, MD
New York University School of Medicine
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, NY
Laura Fischer, MD, MS
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR
Mal Fobi, MD
Saims Juo University
Indore, India
Tammy Fouse, MD
Bingham Memorial Specialty Clinic
Idaho Falls, ID
Michel Gagner, MD, FACS
Universite de Sherbrooke Faculty of Medicine
HMC Hospital
Montreal, Canada
Manoel Galvão Neto, MD
Florida International University
Mario Covas Hospital/ABC Medical School
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Liz Goldenberg, MPH, RD, CDN
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
Kelly Haisley, MD
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR
Ariola Hasani, MD
University of Naples Federico II
Naples, Italy
Daniel Herron, MD, FACS
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY
Kelvin Higa, MD, FACS
University of California San Francisco
Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital
Fresno, CA
Jacques Himpens, MD, PhD, FACS
Université Libre de Bruxelles
St Pierre University Hospital
Brabant, Belgium
Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Keith Chae Kim, MD, FACS
Florida Hospital Celebration
Celebration, Florida
Owen Korn, MD, FACS
Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Shanu Kothari, MD, FACS
Gundersen Health System
La Crosse, WI
Matthew Kroh, MD, FACS
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
O. Yousef Kudsi, MD, MBA, FACS
Tufts University School of Medicine
Good Samaritan Medical Center
Boston, MA
Marina Kurian, MD, FACS
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY
Muffazal Lakdawala, MD, FACS
University of Mumbai
Center for Obesity and Diabetes Surgery India
Mumbai, India
Robert Lim, MD, FACS
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Tripler Army Medical Center
Honolulu, HI
Emanuele Lomenzo, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, FL
Samuel Mattar, MD, FACS
Oregon Health and Scince University
Portland, OR
John Morton, MD, FACS
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Michael J. Mulcahy, MD, FACS
CCF/Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Cleveland Clinic/Tripler Army Medical Center
Honolulu, HI
Jaisa Olasky, MD, FACS
Harvard Medical School
Mount Auburn Hospital
Cambridge, MA
Lerna Ozcan, MD
Tufts University School of Medicine
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Brighton, MA
Manish Parikh, MD, FACS
New York University Langone Medical Center
Bellevue Hospital Center
New York, NY
Emma Jean Patterson, MD, FRCSC, FACS
Oregon Weight Loss Surgery, LLC
Portland, OR
Kristen Patton, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Saline Memorial Hospital
Benton, AR
John Paul Sanders, MD, FACS
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
William Beaumont Army Medical Center
El Paso, TX
Alfons Pomp, MD , FACS, FRCSC
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
Pornthep Prathanvanich, MD, FACS
Siriaj Hospital Faculty of Medicine
Stritch School of Medicine
David Anders Provost, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Texas A&M College of Medicine
Baylor Scott & White Memorial Hospital
Temple, TX
Aurora Pryor, MD, FACS
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY
Marco Raffaelli, MD
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A.Gemelli” Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Rome, Italy
Subhash Reddy, MD
Metropolitan Methodist Hospital
Southwest General Hospital
San Antonio, TX
Christine Ren Fielding, MD, FACS
New York University School of Medicine
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, NY
Tomasz Rogula MD, FACS
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX
Raul Rosenthal, MD, FACS
Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine
Florida International University
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, FL
Mitchell Roslin, MD, FACS
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, NY
Alan Saber, MD, MS, FACS, FASMBS
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Brooklyn, NY
J. Paul Sanders, MD, FACS
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
William Beaumont Army Medical Center
El Paso, TX
Philip Schauer, MD, FACS
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Bruce Schirmer, MD, FACS
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Shinil K. Shah, DO, FACS
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Houston, TX
Darshak Shah, MBBS, FACS
Icahn School Of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY
Scott Shikora, MD, FACS
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Lyz Bezerra Silva, MD
Federal University of Pernambuco
Hospital Santa Joana Recife
Pernambuco, Brazil
Ranjan Sudan, MD, FACS
Duke Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss
Durham, NC
Michel Suter, MD, FACS
Hopital de Chablais
Rennaz, Switzerland
Samuel Szomstein, MD, FACS
Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine
Florida International University
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, FL
Dana Telem, MD, FACS
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY
Héctor Valladares Hernández, MD
University of Chile
Santiago, Chile
Andrew Van Osdol, MD
Gundersen Medical Foundation
LaCrosse, WI
David Williams, MD
New York University
New York, NY
Erik B. Wilson MD, FACS
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Houston, TX
Alan Wittgrove, MD, FACS
Scripps Memorial Hospital
La Jolla, CA
Bruce Wolfe, MD, FACS
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR
Natan Zundel, MD, FACS
Florida International University
Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine
Miami, FL
* Deceased
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Cine-Med, Inc.
Project Manager Consultant
Colleen Hutchinson
