Committees

HONORARY PRESIDENT

Jean Mouiel

 

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Jean-Marc Chevallier, President of the Congress
Jérôme Dargent
Jean-Marie Zimmermann

 

NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Arnaud Basdevant
Laurent Bordigoni
Jean-Luc Bouillot
Gérard Champault
Ghassan Chakhtoura
Jean-Michel Fabre
Vincent Frering
Jean Gugenheim
Daniel Krawzcykowcky
Jean-Pierre Marmuse
Simon Msika
David Nocca
François Pattou
Patrick Ritz
Philippe Topart
Olivier Ziegler
Franck Zinzindohoué

 

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

 

Chair  
Martin Fried (Czech Republic)  
Current President

 
MAL Fobi (USA)  
Co-Editors of Obesity Surgery  
Nicola Scopinaro (Italy)
Henry Buchwald (USA)		  
President of the past meeting  
Carlos Casalnuovo (Argentina)  
   
Luigi Angrisani (Italy)
John Dixon (Australia)
Scott Shikora (USA)
Pradeep Chowbey (India)
Luiz Vicente Berti (Brazil)
Tess Van der Merwe (South Africa)
Yuri Yaskov (Russia)
Karl Miller (Austria)
Michel Suter (Switzerland)
Mariusz Wylezol (Poland)
Kelvin Higa (USA)
Gerhard Prager (Austria)
Michael Gagner (USA)		  

 

IFSO EXECUTIVE BOARD

Executive Board Honorary President : Nicola Scopinaro
President : Mathias Fobi
Immediate Past President : Rafael Alvarez-Cordero
Senior Past President : Melissas John
President-Elect : Harry Frydenberg
Secretary /Treasurer : Luigi Angrisani
BOT Chair : Martin Fried
ASMBS Rep : Kelvin Higa
LA Rep : Luis Ibanez
APC Rep : Sanjay Bourde
EC Rep : Antonio Jose Torres
IFSO 2009 Congress President : Jean-Marc Chevallier
Historian : George Cowan
Obesity Surgery Editor : Henry Buchwald, Nicola Scopinaro
Secretariat : Ngwebifor Fobi, Khagen Consulting