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About IFSO


The International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and metabolic disorders (IFSO) is a Federation composed of national associations of bariatric surgeons and Integrated Health professionals. Currently, there are 67 official member societies of IFSO. There are also individual members from countries that thus far have not formed a national association.
IFSO is a scientific organization that brings together surgeons and integrated health professionals, such as nurse, practitioners, dieticians, nutritionists, psychologists, internists and anaesthesiologists, involved in the treatment of morbidly obese patients.
One of IFSO’s main goals is to support its members in aspects directly related to their profession. One of IFSO’s main activities is the organization of the yearly World Congress, which provides a forum to exchange knowledge on surgical treatment of severely obese patients, to present new techniques, research and concepts, and to meet the experts in the field.
An international obesity surgery meeting was held annually in various countries throughout the world, under the leadership of Nicola Scopinaro. At the Stockholm meeting in 1995, the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO) was formed. The first International Congress of IFSO was held in Prague in 1996, followed by Cancun in 1997, Bruges in 1998, Salzburg in 1999 and Genoa in 2000. The first President was Nicola Scopinaro (Italy), followed by George Cowan (U.S.A) and Emanuel Hell (Austria).

To learn more about IFSO’s History please click here.

 

VISION

“To optimize the control of adiposity-based chronic diseases.”

 

MISSION

“To unify the global scientific, surgical and integrated health communities, for the purpose of dissemination of knowledge, collaboration and establishing universal standards of care for the treatment of individuals with adiposity-based chronic disease.”

 

Executive Board


Nicola Scopinaro

Honorary President

Lilian Kow

PRESIDENT

Scott A. Shikora

PRESIDENT Elect

Almino Ramos

Past President

JaCques Himpens

Senior Past President

Abdelrahman Nimeri

Secretary / Treasurer

Luigi Angrisani

Board of Trustees chair

Mary O’Kane

Integrated Health Chair

Silvia Leite Faria

Integrated Health Vice-Chair

Kazunori Kasama

Asia Pacific Chapter President

Seung Ho ChoI

Asia Pacific Chapter Member at Large

Gerhard Prager

European Chapter President

Nicola di Lorenzo

European Chapter Member at Large

Estuardo Behrens

Latin American Chapter President

Caetano Marchesini

Latin American Chapter Member at Large

Raul Rosenthal

North American Chapter President

Laurent Biertho

North American Chapter Member at Large

Khalid Mirza Gari

Middle East North African Chapter President

 

 

Ali Khammas

Middle East North African Chapter Member at Large

 

 

 

Non-voting Members

George Cowan

Historian

Scott A. Shikora

Obesity Surgery Editor in Chief

Natan Zundel

President of the 2021 Congress

Contact Us


Manuela Mazzarella
Ifso Chief Operating Officer

 

 

 

Rione Sirignano, 5
80121 Napoli (Italy)

  +39 081 7611085  

  +39 081 2470383

  secretariat@ifso.com  

  www.ifso.com  

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