EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PHILIP R. SCHAUER, MD
Professor of Surgery
Lerner College of Medicine
Director, Advanced Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric & Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

SPECIAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD
Deputy Director
Texas Diabetes Institute
Staff Physician
South Texas Veterans Health Care System
Division Chief, Diabetes
University of Texas Health Science Center
Director, Diabetes Research Unit
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, TX

Metabolic/Bariatric Program Co-Directors

John Dixon, MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, FRCP
Associate Professor
Monash University
Senior Clinical Scientist
Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
Melbourne, Australia

Bruce Wolfe, MD
Professor of Surgery
Oregon Health and Science University
Past-President
ASMBS
Portland, Oregon

Hernia Program Co-Director

Guy R. Voeller, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN

Colon Course Co-Director

Morris Franklin, MD
Director
Texas Endosurgery Institute
San Antonio, TX

2013 Metabolic/Bariatric Faculty

John Dixon, MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, FRCP
Metabolic/Bariatric Program Co-Director
Associate Professor
Monash University
Senior Clinical Scientist
Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
Melbourne, Australia

Bruce Wolfe, MD
Metabolic/Bariatric Program Co-Director
Professor of Surgery
Oregon Health and Science University
Past-President
ASMBS
Portland, Oregon

Robin Blackstone, MD
Scottsdale Bariatric Center
Immediate Past-President, ASMBS
Scottsdale, AZ

Stacey Brethauer, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Ricardo Cohen, MD
President,
Brazilian Society for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Oswaldo Cruz Hospital
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD
Division Chief, Diabetes
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, TX

Michel Gagner, MD
Florida International University
Miami, FL

Matthew Hutter, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Matt Kroh, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Robert Kushner, MD, MS
Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity
Chicago, IL

Kenneth G. MacDonald, Jr, MD*
Physicians East
Greenville, NC

Georgeann Mallory, RD
ASMBS
Gainesville, FL

Carol McCloskey, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

John Morton, MD, MPH
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford, CA

Ninh T. Nguyen, MD
University of California, Irvine Medical Center
Orange, CA

Robert O'Rourke, MD
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR

Alfons Pomp, MD
Chief, Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery
Weil Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY

Jaime Ponce, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Hamilton Medical Group
Dalton, GA

Walter Pories, MD, FACS
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC

Christine Ren-Fielding, MD
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY

Tomasz Rogula, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Mitchell Roslin, MD
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, NY

Donna Ryan, MD
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Francesco Rubino, MD
Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY

James W. Saxton, Esquire
Stevens & Lee
Lancaster, PA

Bruce Schirmer, MD
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, VA

2013 Hernia Faculty

Guy R. Voeller, MD
Hernia Program Co-Director
Professor of Surgery
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN

Morris Franklin,MD
Director
Texas Endosurgery Institute
San Antonio, TX

Todd Heniford, MD
Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Carolinas Healthcare System
Charlotte, NC

Brent Matthews, MD
Chief, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, MO

Bruce Ramshaw, MD
Transformative Care Institute, Advanced Hernia Solutions
Daytona Beach, FL

2013 Colon Faculty

Morris Franklin, MD
Colon Program Co-Director
Director
Texas Endosurgery Institute
San Antonio, TX

Bradley Davis, MD
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

John Marks, MD
Lankenau Hospital/Main Line Health Systems
Wynnewood, PA

Alessio Pigazzi, MD
City of Hope National Center
Duarte, CA

Gustavo Plasencia, MD
Advanced Surgical Institute at Mercy Hospital
Miami, FL

Larry Whelan, MD
Columbia Presbyterian
New York, NY

Howard Ross, MD
Riverview Surgical Associates
West Long Branch, NJ

*Invited