Guest experts represent key organizations. Their role is to observe the congress sessions, to review evidence presented during the congress and contribute to discussions of draft proposal guidelines. The experts will observe the final meeting of the DSS Expert Committee and therefore provide transparency over the methods of the DSS for societies that we be approached to request possible endorsement and adoption of the guidelines later on.
American Society of Clinical Endocrinologists
Jeffrey Mechanick, USA
American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
John Morton, USA
Association of British Clinical Diabetologists
Bob Ryder, UK
American College of Surgeons
Ali Tavakkoli, USA
British Obesity & Metobolic Surgery Society
Roger Ackroyd, UK (BOMSS)
Czech Society for the Study of Obesity
Martin Fried, Czech Republic
Endocrine Society
Richard Bergman, USA
International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders
Antonio Torres, Spain
International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders – European Chapter
Michel Suter, Switzerland
Japanese Society of Bariatric Metabolic Surgery
Kazunori Kasama, Japan
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Rachel Batterham, UK
National Obesity Forum
David Haslam, UK
NIH / The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Karen Teff, USA
Swedish Association for Bariatric Surgery
Torsten Olbers, Sweden
Italian Society of Bariatric Surgery
Nicola Di Lorenzo, Italy
Societa Italiana di Diabetologia
Frida Leonetti, Italy
Ahmed Ahmed, UK
Marco Castagneto, Italy
Pradeep Chowbey, India
Paolo Gentileschi, Italy
Muffazal
Lakdawala, India
Ameet Patel, UK
Shashank Sha, India
