Scientific Advisors
Santiago Horgan, MD
Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, California
Director of the Center for Treatment of Obesity, UC San Diego Medical Center
Director of the UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery
Professor of Surgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Marc Bessler, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, New York
Director of Laparoscopic Surgery
Director Center for Obesity Surgery
Desmond H. Birkett, MD BS, FACS
Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine
Past President, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
Daniel M. Herron, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Chief, Section of Bariatric Surgery and Director, Fellowship in Laparoscopic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Richard Kozarek, MD
Director, Digestive Disease Institute, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Washington
2005 ASGE Schindler Award Recipient
Past President , American Society of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Bruce V. MacFadyen, MD, FACS
Moretz / Mansberger Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
Recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Service Award from the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
Past President of SAGES
John D. Mellinger, MD, FACS
Chief, Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
Associate Professor of Surgery and Program Director, General Surgery Residency
Nathaniel J. Soper, MD, FACS
James R. Hines Professor and Interim Chair of Surgery
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Past President of SAGES
Christopher Paul Swain, M.D
Professor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, London University and Imperial College London, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology
Served as consultant Gastroenterologist and Professor at the Royal London Hospital, London, England from 1987-2003
Lee Swanstrom, MD
Director, Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Legacy Health System
Vice-Chairman, General and Vascular Surgery, Legacy Emanuel and Good Samaritan Hospitals
Clinical Prof. of Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
Past President of SAGES
Christopher Thompson, M.D., MHES
Director of Developmental Endoscopy
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
On staff at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital
Co-director of the DoD funded CIMIT Working Group on Endoscopic Surgery