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Obesity Surgery is the official journal of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders. The journal represents one of the premier forums for the dissemination of research and clinical knowledge within the international community of bariatric/metabolic treatment providers of all disciplines. Obesity Surgery communicates the latest research, surgical and endoscopic techniques, and most recent advances in the integrated health care for the treatment of obesity and metabolic disorders.
The journal publishes highly selective invited and unsolicited peer-reviewed articles involving all aspects of the management and care of patients suffering from obesity. Though there is an emphasis on bariatric/metabolic surgery, the journal is comprehensive in covering the medical management of obesity, general surgery, endoscopy, nutritional science, behavioral science, anesthesia, plastic surgery after weight loss, exercise physiology, endocrinology, diabetology, treatment for eating disorders, and medicolegal issues.
Obesity Surgery features thought leaders from around the world in each of the key disciplines involved in the treatment of obesity, who conduct completely blind reviews of submissions. Article types include: Original Contributions, Video Submissions, Brief Communications, New Concepts, Review Articles, How I Do It, Letters to the Editor (typically with an invited Reply), Commentaries (upon invitation), as well as meeting Abstracts.

Editor-in-Chief: 
Scott Shikora, MD, FACS, USA 

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

Advisory Editors:
Paul O’Brien, MD, Australia
Ricardo Cohen, MD, Brazil
Michel Suter, MD, Switzerland
Stacy Brethauer, MD, USA
Salman Al-Sabah, MD, Kuwait
Associate Editors:
Luigi Angrisani, MD, Italy
Wendy Brown, PhD, Australia
Jean-Marc Chevallier, MD, Italy
Jerome Dargent, MD, France
Paul Davidson, PhD, USA
Andrew de Beaux, MD, UK
John B. Dixon, MD, PhD, Australia
Joel Faintuch, MD, PhD, Brazil
Armour Forse, MD, PhD, USA
Michel Gagner, MD, Canada
Arthur Garrido, Jr, MD, PhD, Brazil
Jan Willem Greve, MD, PhD, Netherlands
Miguel Herrera, MD, Mexico
Daniel Herron, MD, USA
Jacques Himpens, MD, Belgium
Kellene Isom, MS, RD, LDN, USA
Wei-Jei Lee, MD, PhD, Taiwan
Kamal Mahawar, MS, MSc, FRCSEd, UK
Melissa Majumdar, MD, RD, CSOWM, LDN, CPT, USA
Peter Nau, MD, USA
Abdelrahman Nimeri, MD, UAE
Walter Pories, MD, PhD, USA
Malcolm Robinson, MD, USA
Raul Rosenthal, MD, USA
Mitchell Roslin, MD, USA
David Sarwer, PhD, USA
Phillippe Topart, MD, France
Antonio Torres, MD, PhD, Spain
Rudolf Weiner, MD, PhD, Germany
Richard Welbourn, MD, UK
Mariusz Wylezol, MD, Poland
Editorial Board
Gianfranco Adami, MD, Italy
Ali Aminian, MD, USA
Anna Casajoana Badia, PhD, Spain
Dale Bond, PhD, USA
Robert Brolin, MD, USA
Cynthia Buffington, PhD, USA
Paul Robert Burton, MBBS, Australia
Luca Busetto, MD, Italy
Guilherme M Campos, MD, USA
Miguel-Angel Carbajo, MD, PhD, Spain
Judy Chen, MD, USA
Pradeep Chowbey, MD, India
Anthony Clough, MBBS, Australia
Karen J. Coleman, MS, PhD, USA
Richard Corcelles, MD, PhD, Spain
Daniel Cottam, MD, USA
Susan Cummings, MS, RD, USA
Felipe de la Cruz Vigo, MD, PhD, Spain
Maurizio De Luca, MD, Italy
Silvia Faria, PhD, Brazil
Francis Finucane, MD, FRCPI, Ireland
Barry Fisher, MD, USA
Karen Flanders, RN, USA
Eldo Frezza, MD, USA
Martin Fried, MD, PhD, Czech Republic
Gema Fruhbeck, MD, PhD, Spain
Manoel Galvao Neto, MD, Brazil
Antonio Gangemi, MD, FACS, USA
Amador García Ruiz de Gordejuela, Spain
Khaled Gawdat, MD, MBBCH, MS, PhD, Egypt
Bruno Geloneze, MD, PhD, Brazil
John Gleysteen, MD, USA
David Goitein, MD, Israel
John C. Gould, MD, USA
Kevin Helling, MD, USA
Jitka Herlesova, PhD, Czech Republic
Donald Hess, MD, USA
Kelvin Higa, MD, USA
Fritz Horber, MD, Switzerland
Antonio Iannelli, MD, PhD, France
Kenneth Jones, Jr., MD, USA
W. Konrad Karcz, MD, Germany
Radwan Kassir, MD, France
Mohd Yasser Kayyal, MD, FRCS, FACS, Ireland
Andrei Keidar, MD, Israel
Lillian Kow, FRACS, Australia
Sophie Krueger, MD, Germany
Hendrikus Lemmens, MD, PhD, USA
Robert Lim, MD, USA
Conor Magee, MD, FRCS, UK
Tom Mala, PhD, MD, Norway
Ryan Marek, PhD, USA
Giuseppe Marinari, MD, Italy
Samer Mattar, MD, USA
Corrigan McBride, MD, USA
Karl Miller, MD, Austria
Geltrude Mingrone, MD, PhD, Italy
Reinhard Mittermair, MD, Austria
John Morton, MD, USA
Jean Mouiel, MD, France
Colm O'Boyle, MA, FRCSI, Ireland
Robert O’Rourke, MD, USA
Dimitrios Papamargaritis, PhD, UK
Manish Parikh, MD, USA
Ralph Peterli, MD, PhD, Switzerland
Tarissa Petry, MD, Brazil
Alfons Pomp, MD, USA
Jamie Ponce, MD, USA
Dimitri Pournaras, PhD, FRCS, UK
Brian Quebbemann, MD, USA
Almino Ramos, MD, Brazil
Fabian Reche, MD, France
Christine Ren Fielding, MD, USA
Jose Rodriguez Villarreal, MD, Mexico
Lincoln Rothwell, MBChB, FRACS, Australia
Moshe Rubin, MD, Israel
Alan Saber, MD, USA
Nasser Sakran, MD, Israel
Andrés Sánchez-Pernaute, MD, PhD, Spain
Carlos Aurelio Schiavon, MD, Brazil
Adriano Segal, MD, Brazil
Shashank Shah, MD, India
Ashish Sinha, MD, USA
Konstantinos Spaniolas, MD, USA
Kristine Steffen, PhD, USA
Christine Stroh, MD, Germany
Mustafa Taskin, MD, Turkey
Colleen Tewksbury, PhD, MRH, RD, LDN, USA
J. Graham Thomas, PhD, USA
Tess van der Merwe, PhD, South Africa
Peter Vasas, PhD, UK
Joseph Vidal, MD, Spain
Antonio Vitiello, MD, USA
Bart van Wagensveld, PhD, Netherlands
Alan Wittgrove, MD, USA
Yury Yashkov, MD, PhD, Russia
Natan Zundel, MD, Colombia
IFSO Representative 
Almino Ramos, MD, 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
Wei-Jei Lee, MD, PhD, Taiwan
John Melissas, MD, PhD, FACS, Greece
John Morton, MD, USA
Walter Pories, MD, PhD, USA
Malcolm Robinson, MD, USA
Raul Rosenthal, MD, USA
Mitchell Roslin, MD, USA
David Sarwer, PhD, USA
Antonio Torres, MD, PhD, Spain
Rudolf Weiner, MD, PhD, Germany