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Obesity Surgery

The Journal of Metabolic Surgery and Allied Care

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Editors

Editor-in-Chief:
Scott Shikora, MD, FACS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA 

Editorial Office:
Deana Rodriguez, Managing Editor
Phone: +1 (562) 961-9928
Email: obsu.rodriguez@gmail.com

Advisory Editors:
Stacy Brethauer, MD, MBA, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, USA

Wendy Brown, PhD, Monash University Australia

Ricardo Cohen, MD, PhD, The Center for Obesity and Diabetes, Oswaldo Cruz German Hospital, Brazil

Khaled Gawdat, MD, PhD, Ain-Shams School of Medicine, Egypt

Michel Suter, MD, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Associate Editors:
Edo Aarts, MD, PhD, Allurion Clinic, Netherlands

Andreas Panagiotis Alexandrou, MD, Laiko General Hospital, Greece

Luigi Angrisani, MD, Department of Public Health, Federico II University of Naples, Italy

Eduardo Bastos PhD, Marilia Medical School, Brazil

Dale Bond, PhD, Hartford Hospital, USA

Cynthia Buffington, PhD, Advent Health, USA

Luca Busetto, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Italy

Judy Chen, MD, University of Washington, USA

Jean-Marc Chevallier, MD, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, University of Paris, France

Jerome Dargent, MD, Polyclinique de Rillieux, France

Andrew de Beaux, MD, University of Edinburgh, UK

Joel Faintuch, MD, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Silvia Leite Faria, PhD, MSc, RD, University of Brazil, Brazil

Armour Forse, MD, PhD, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, USA

Antonio Gangemi, MD, FACS, University of Bologna, USA

Yitka NH Graham, PhD, University of Sunderland, UK

Jan Willem Greve, MD, PhD, Zuyderland Medical Center Heerlen, Netherlands

Mohammed Hadad MD, Kahlifa University of Science and Technology, UAE

Ashraf Haddad, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Gastrointestinal, Metabolic, and Bariatric Surgery Center (GBMC), Jordan Hospital, Jordan

Kevin Helling, MD, Wyoming Medical Center, USA

Jacques Himpens, MD, PhD, Delta Chirec Hospital Brussels, Belgium

Radwan Kassir, MD, PhD, The View Hospital, Qatar

Mohammad Kermansaravi, MD, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Wei-Jei Lee, MD, PhD, China Medical University Hsinchu Hospital Taiwan

Peter Nau, MD, University of Iowa, USA

Abdelrahman Nimeri, MD, SRH Hospital Gera, UAE

Colm J. O'Boyle, MD, Bon Secours Hospital, Ireland

Walter Pories, MD, PhD, East Carolina University, USA

Anne Pugel Ehlers, MD, MPH, University of Michigan, USA

Malcolm Robinson, MD, Harvard University, USA

Mitchell Roslin, MD, Lenox Hill Hospital, USA

Alan Saber, MD, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, USA

David Sarwer, PhD, Temple University College, USA

Colleen Tewksbury, PhD, MRH, RD, LDN, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Phillippe Topart, MD, Clinique de l'Anjou, France

Antonio Torres, MD, PhD, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Antonio Vitiello, MD, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Rudolf Weiner, MD, PhD, University of Frankfurt, Germany

Richard Welbourn, MD, MBBS, FRCS, Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset Foundation Trust, Taunton UK; Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, UK

Mariusz Wylezol, MD, Warsaw Center for Comprehensive Treatment of Obesity and Bariatric Surgery, Czerniakowski Hospital, Poland

Wah Yang, MD, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, China

Social Media Editors
Kamal Mahawar, MD, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Manuela Mazzarella, IFSO Secretariat, Italy

Abdelrahman Nimeri, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA

Editorial Board
Sandeep Aggarwal, MS, FACS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Pierre Blanc, MD, Surgical Clinic Mutualiste, France

Cynthia Borg, MD, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, UK

William Braun, MD, PhD, Metro North Health, Australia

Paul Robert Burton, MBBS, Monash University, Australia

Robert H. Caiazzo, MD, PhD, Lille University School of Medicine, France

Miguel-Angel Carbajo, MD, PhD, Center of Excellence for the Study and Treatment of the Obesity and Diabetes, Spain

Pradeep Chowbey, MD, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, India

Karen J. Coleman, MS, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine, USA

Daniel Cottam, MD, Bariatric Medicine Institute, USA

Michael Courtney, MBBS, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Maurizio De Luca, MD, Institute of Surgery, Rovigo Hospital, Italy

John B. Dixon, MD, PhD, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Anne Pugel Ehlers, MD, MPH, University of Michigan, USA 

Francis Finucane, MD, PhD, FRCPI, University of Galway, Ireland

Martin Fried, MD, PhD, Center for Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Czech Republic

Gema Fruhbeck, MD, PhD, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Spain

Manoel Galvao Neto, MD, Mohak Bariatric and Robotic Center, India

Amador García Ruiz de Gordejuela, Spain

Bruno Geloneze, MD, PhD, Obesity and Comorbities Research Center, State University of Campinas, Brazil

Daniel Gero, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Omar M. Ghanem, MD, Mayo Clinic, USA

John Gleysteen, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama, USA

Michael Goldberg, MD, Department of Surgery, Christiana Care, USA

John C. Gould, MD, MBA, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA

Alfredo Daniel Guerron, MD, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE

Naoki Hashimoto, MD, PhD, Sanda City Hospital, Japan

Jitka Herlesova, PhD, OB Clinic, Czech Republic

Donald Hess, MD, Boston University, USA

Kelvin Higa, MD, University of California San Francisco, USA

Antonio Iannelli, MD, PhD, Department of General and Digestive Surgery and Liver and Intestinal Transplants, University of Nice Côté d’Azur, France

Mohd Yasser Kayyal, MD, FRCS, FACS, Cork University Hospital Group, Ireland

Andrei Keidar, MD, Department of Surgery, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Lillian Kow, FRACS, Flinders University, Australia

Hendrikus Lemmens, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University, USA

Robert Lim, MD, Wake Forest University, USA

Conor Magee, MB, ChB, MD, FRCS, FFSTEd, Wirral University Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Nashwan Qahatan Mahgoob, MD, Cihan University, Iraq

Tom Mala, PhD, MD, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway

Ryan Marek, PhD, Sam Houston State University, USA

Francesco Martini, MD, Cèdres Clinique, France

Samer Mattar, MD, Swedish Medical Center, USA

Corrigan McBride, MD, MBA, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

Karl Miller, MD, Department of General Surgery, Wehrle-Diakonissen Private Hospital Salzburg, Austria

Mohammad Ali Kalantar Motamedi, MD, University of Toronto, Canada

Patrick Noel, MD, Queen Hospital, Qatar

Robert O’Rourke, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, USA

Rodolfo Oviedo, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FICS, DABS-FPDMBS, FACS, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, University of Houston,  USA

Manish Parikh, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center, USA

Chetan Parmar, MS, DNB, Department of Surgery, Whittington Hospital, UK

Zvi Perry, MD, PhD, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel

Ralph Peterli, MD, PhD, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Tarissa Petry, MD, PhD, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil

Jamie Ponce, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FIFSO, DABS-FPMBS, DABOM, CHI Memorial Hospital, USA

Dimitri Pournaras, PhD, FRCS, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK

Luiz Gustavo de Quadros MD, PhD, MSc, Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa, Brazil

Almino Ramos, MD, Gastro-Obeso-Center-Advanced Institute for Digestive and Bariatric Surgery, Brazil

Fabian Reche, MD, University of Grenoble, France

Christine Ren Fielding, MD, New York University School of Medicine, USA

Andrew G. Robertson, PhD, FRCS, University of Edinburgh, UK

Raul Rosenthal MD, Cleveland Clinic Florida, USA

Lincoln Rothwell, MBChB, FRACS, Ipswich Bariatrics, Australia

Moshe Rubin, MD, University Tel Aviv, Israel

Andrés Sánchez-Pernaute, MD, PhD, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, University of Madrid, Spain

Carlos Aurelio Schiavon, MD, PhD, Hospital do Coração, Brazil

Adriano Segal, MD, PhD, Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Outpatient Service, University Sao Paolo, Brazil

Kamran Shah, MD, Department of Upper GI and Metabolic Surgery, Gb Obesitas Skåne Ab, Sweden

Shashank Shah, MD, Laparo Obeso Centre, India

Ashish Sinha, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University, USA

Konstantinos Spaniolas, MD, MBA, Stony Brook University, USA

Kristine Steffen, PhD, North Dakota State University, USA

Christine Stier, MD, PhD, Department of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, University of Mannheim, Germany

Christine Stroh, MD, SRH Hospital Gera, Germany

Mustafa Taskin, MD, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Turkey

J. Graham Thomas, PhD, Rhode Island Hospital, USA

Mahidhar Valeti, MD, Continental Hospitals Hyderabad, India

Tess van der Merwe, PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Bart van Wagensveld, PhD, Department of Surgery, Weight Management Center, NMC Royal Hospital, UAE

Peter Vasas, PhD, Bariatric Surgery Department, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, UK

Joseph Vidal, MD, Endocrinology Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Spain

Alan Wittgrove, MD, Wittgrove Bariatric Center, USA

Yury Yashkov, MD, PhD, Center of Endosurgery and Lithotripsy, Russia

Natan Zundel, MD, University of Buffalo, USA

IFSO Representative
Almino Ramos, MD, Gastro-Obeso-Center-Advanced Institute for Digestive and Bariatric Surgery, Brazil

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founding Editor
Mervyn Deitel, MD, Canada

Co-Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founding Editor
George S.M. Cowan, Jr., MD, USA

Editors Emeritus
Henry Buchwald, MD, USA
Nicola Scopinaro, MD, Italy

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