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XXVIII IFSO World Congress 2025 will bring you the international experts in the treatment of patients with severe obesity and will provide opportunities for exchange of knowledge on surgical treatment, presentation of new techniques, research, and concepts.
Below is the list* of experts who have already confirmed their participation at the XXVIII IFSO World Congress (IFSO 2025):
Alaa Abbas, Egypt
Mohamed Abouzeid, Egypt
Barham Abu Dayyeh, USA
Marianela Aguirre Ackermann, Argentina
Hazem Al Momani, UAE
Salman Al Sabah, Kuwait
Munir Alamo, Chile
Ahmad Aly, Australia
Ali Aminian, USA
Luigi Angrisani, Italy
Priscilla Antozzi, Argentina
Mehran Anvari, Canada
Sergio Aparicio, Bolivia
Cristina Aquino, Brazil
Marco Arrese, Chile
Ahmad Assalia, Israel
Aurelie Baillot, Canada
Ana Carolina Batista, Brazil
Tair Ben-Porat, Israel
Luiz Vincente Berti, Brazil
Mohit Bhandari, India
Laurent Biertho, Canada
Dieter Birk, Germany
Marie Cecile Blanchet, France
Dr Boerma, The Netherlands
Camillo Boza, Chile
Jorge Bravo Lopez, Chile
Alyssa Budin, Australia
Marco Bueter, Switzerland
Scott Butsch, USA
Lilia Cafaro, Argentina
Robert Caiazzo, France
Diego Camacho, USA
Claudio Canales, Chile
Juliano Canavarros, Brazil
Felipe Cantu, Mexico
Qiuye Cheng, Australia
Sonja Chiappetta, Italy
Ricardo Cohen, Brazil
David Creel, USA
David Cummings, USA
Amir Davarpanah, Iran
Maurizio De Luca, Italy
Luis de Quadros, Brazil
María del Pilar Quevedo, Argentina
Nicola Di Lorenzo, Italy
Zhiyong Dong, China
Fernando Elli, USA
Laura Fantelli Pateiro, Argentina
Moritz Felsenreich, Austria
Karen Flanders, USA
Michel Gagner, Canada
Carlos Galvani, USA
Khaled Gawdat, Egypt
Daniel Gero, Switzerland
Felipe Giron, Colombia
Yitka Graham, UK
Jan Greve, Netherlands
Ashraf Haddad, Jordan
Mohammad Hany, Egypt
Andrea Herrera, Chile
Kelvin Higa, USA
Chih-Kun Huang, Taiwan
Antonio Ianelli, France
Tom Inge, USA
Kazunori Kasama, Japan
Nilton Kawahara, Brazil
Mousa Khoursheed, Kuwait
Tammy Kindel, USA
Lilian Kow, Australia
Marina Kurian, USA
Muffazal Lakdawala, India
*Correct as of 14 April 2025
Carel Le Roux, Ireland
Angela Leal, Mexico
Silvia Leite, Brazil
Maria Jose Leiva Velasco, Chile
Rainer Lenhardt, USA
Ildiko Lingvay, USA
Rami Lutfi, USA
Jaime Mañalich, Chile
Caetano Marchesini, Brazil
Rejane Marcon, Brazil
Pablo Marin, Chile
Pedro Martinez, Argentina
Samer Mattar, USA
Karl Miller, Austria
Violeta Moize, Spain
John Morton, USA
Rodrigo Muñoz, Chile
Abdelrahman Nimeri, USA
David Nocca, France
Mary O’Kane, UK
Torsten Olbers, Sweden
Camilo Ortiz, Colombia
Francisco Pacheco, Chile
Coordinator: Mariano Palermo, Argentina
Chetan Parmar, UK
Ralph Peterli, Switzerland
Richard Peterson, USA
Erick Piskulich, Peru
Luciano Poggi, Peru
Jaime Ponce, USA
Gerhard Prager, Austria
Yudith Preiss, Chile
Rana Pullatt, USA
Reynu Rajan, Malaysia
Almino Ramos, Brazil
Jaideepraj Rao, Singapore
Maud Robert, France
Christian Rodriguez, Mexico
Ann Rogers, USA
Martin Rojano, Mexico
Amihai Rottenstreich, USA
Justin Ryder, USA
Nasser Sakran, Israel
Ximena Ramos Salas, Canada
Paulina Salminen, Finland
Sergio Santoro, Brazil
David Sarwer, USA
Phil Schauer, USA
Carlos Schiavon, Brazil
Andrea Schroeder, New Zealand
Yosuke Seki, Japan
Matias Sepúlveda, Chile
Asim Shabbir, Singapore
Scott Shikora, USA
Cristine Stier, Germany
Adrian Sultana, Australia
Michel Suter, Switzerland
Elena Ruiz Ucar, Spain
Suthep Udomsawaengsup, Thailand
Surendra Ugale, India
Juan Valderas, Chile
Julian Varas, Chile
Jorge Vasquez, Chile
Josep Vidal, Spain
Marcos Leao Villas-Boas, Brazil
Anupama Wadhwa, USA
CC Wang, China
Wah Yang, China
Carlos Zerrweck, Mexico
Peng Zhang, China
Natan Zundel, USA