ORGANIZERS

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ORGANIZER Dr. Gontrand López Nava MORE INFO Dr. Gontrand López Nava Director of the Bariatric Endoscopy unit Department of HM Sanchinarro University Hospital Founder and ex Director of the Digestive Department of HM Sanchinarro University Hospital since 2007 to 2009 At HM Sanchinarro University Hospital in Madrid, in the Bariatric endoscopic unit he runs, for more than ten years he has developed an important experience in: Implantation of Intragastric Balloon (different types of Balloons) (more than 3,000 cases) Endosuturing bariatric technics: POSE and APOLLO methods (more than 300 cases of POSE procedure and first author in the world to communicate results of weight loss at sixs months of evolution with APOLLO ) Endobarrier (indicated mainly when the obesity is associated to diabetes type II or Metabolic Syndrome). Professor at ASGE (American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) and and IFSO (International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders)

CO-ORGANIZER Dr. Manoel Galvao MORE INFO Dr. Manoel Galvao Clinical Associate Professor at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (FIU-¬‐HWCOM), Miami, USA Affiliate Professor of Surgery At ABC College of Medicine, Santo Andre, Sao Paulo, Brazil Chairman of Investigational Surgical And Endoscopic Procedures Committee at International Federation for Surgery of Obesity -¬‐ IFSO Bariatric Endoscopy unity coordinator at 9th July Hospital, Mario Covas Hospital and Gastro Obeso Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil Board certified specialist in Digestive Surgery, Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Member of the ASGE Association for Bariatric Endoscopy (ABE) Advisory Board Committee member at SAGES, ASGE, ASBMS and IFSO Master degree in Digestive Surgery by Sao Paulo University