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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

Lucio Monte Alto, MD, PhD

Brazil

Board Chair

  • Medical Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism - IBCMED / SP 

  • PhD / Doctorate Degree in Medicine at USP / HC-FMUSP

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism - MEC

  • Board Chair - Brazilian Board of Obesity Medicine - SBEMO

  • Board Chair - European Board of Obesity Medicine - EBOM

  • Vice-chairman - Brazilian Andropause and Menopause Society - SBAM

  • Director of Obesity Medicine Clinical Fellowship - Sbemo Pós - MEC / Ensine / SP

  • Obesity Medicine / Harvard Medical School

  • Member of Endocrine Society

  • Member of Obesity Society

  • Medical Fellowship in Psychiatry - IBCMED - SP

  • ​Medical Fellowship in Nutrology - SANAR - SP

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Leonardo Sande, MD

Uruguay
Vice Chair

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  • Doctor en Medicina. UDELAR

  • Especialista en medicina intensiva. Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay

  • Diplomado en Obesidad. Universidad Favaloro. Argentina

  • Máster en obesidad y trastornos de la alimentación. Universidad de Cádiz. España

  • Ex docente de la cátedra de medicina Intensiva. UDELAR

  • Cargo de alta dedicación de la médica uruguaya. Montevideo -Uruguay

  • Director de Clínica Sande. Montevideo -Uruguay

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Anna Carolina Hoff, MD

Italy / Germany / Brazil

Scientific Director

  • Bariatric Surgeon

  • Advanced Interventional Endoscopist

  • Vice Chair of Innovations and Inventions at ASGE

  • Member of the Board Bariatric channel

  • Proctor Apollo Endosurgery / Boston Scientific

  • CEO and founder Angioskope Advanced training Center- São José dos Campos/SP

  • Board Director of the Brazilian and Pan American Board of Obesity Medicine - SBEMO / PABOM

  • Specialist in General SurgeryMedical Residency in Digestive Endoscopy

  • Medical Fellowship in  Respiratory Endoscopy

  • Medical Fellowship in Sports Nutrition

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Devinder Singh Bansi,
DM FRCP BM 

London / United Kingdon 

Director of International  Relations Western Europe

  • Gastroenterologist & Interventional Endoscopist 

  • Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London 

  • Medical Director, Weight Doctors UK - Founding  partner, board member and QUAP! chairman for OneWelbeck Health Partners Endoscopy Unit in London

  • The first endoscopists in the UK to start an ESG service at Imperial College and the Cromwell Hospital in London 

  • Member of the endoscopy committee for BOMSS (British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society) Endoscopy committee

  • Member of ASGE International Endoscopy Committee

  • Author on the forthcoming BSG (British Society of Gastroenterology) guidelines for bariatric

  • National  and international proctor for Apollo/Boston Endosurgery

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Dina Peralta-Reich, MD 

USA

North American Director / International Medical Affairs

  • Founder of New York Weight Wellness Medicine, PLLC / New York

  • Double board-certified in Pediatrics by American Boards of Pediatrics and Obesity Medicine

  • Director of Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine / Lenox Hill Hospital / New York

  • Assistant Professor at Zucker Medical School / New York

  • Residency in Pediatrics at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center / Cornell University- New York

  • Member of American Academy of Pediatrics / Obesity Medicine Association

  • Member of Asociación Panameña para la prevención y el tratamiento de la Obesidad

  • MBSAQIP member- Adolescent Bariatric and Metabolic surgery participant center- Lenox Hill Hospital/ NY

  • Global Health Advocate - Yearly Medical Missions to Panamá

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Claudio Nogueira, MD, PhD

Spain / Brazil

 Director of International

Relations Southern Europe

  • PhD in Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

  • Titular Member and Specialist recognized by the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery. Completed Medical Residency with an extension at the Ivo Pitanguy Institute (PUC/RJ).

  • Holder of the European Title in Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery awarded by the Portuguese Medical Association.

  • Member of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

  • Member of the European Society of Aesthetic Surgery.

  • Chirurgien Esthétique at Polyclinique De L'ormeau - Site Pyrénées, Tarbes, France.

  • Director/Aesthetic Physician and Cosmiatric Surgery at Clínica Softouch.

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César G. Beguiristain, MD

Uruguay

Director

  • Doctor of Medicine -  University of the Republic / Montevideo / Uruguay

  • Doctor of Medicine revalidated in Brasil - UFPE

  • Medical Fellowship in Nutrology - USP - Faculty of Medicine - Ribeirão Preto - SP

  • Medical Fellowship in Family Medicine - Federal University of Pernambuco

  • Obesity Medicine Board Certified by the Brazilian Board of Obesity Medicine - SBEMO

  • Medical Fellowship in Homeopathy / Centre d'enseignement et de développement de l'homéopathie – CEDEH France

  • Founding Director of Emebra Medical Support

  • Member of the Brazilian Society of Internal Medicine (SBCM)

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Romina Espinola

Paraguay

Director

  • Specialized Family Medicine - Baptist Medical Center University, Paraguay.

  • Member of the Paraguayan scientific society of family and community medicine and primary health care.

  • Certified by the Brazilian Society of Obesity Medicine (SBEMO). 

  • Endocrinology and Metabolism - University of Maringá, Brazil.

  • Postgraduate in Diabetology, National University of Córdoba.

  • Advanced study of endocrinology and sports medicine, Unifesp, Brazil.
    Training in nutrition and orthomolecular medicine.

  • Governance, political and public management, Columbia and George Washington University.

  • Higher Education Specialist.

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Osmel J. G. Mayol, PhD

Cuba

Director

  • Graduated in Medicine at the Universidad Ciencias Médicas in Havana, Cuba.

  • Diploma revalidated at the Federal University of Pernambuco.

  • - Specialist in Pain with Post-Graduation at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein.

  • Post-Graduation in Rheumatology by the Brazilian College of Medicine and Health (CBMS) affiliated to the Candido Mendes University (UCAM)

  • Postgraduate in Intensive Care (UNYLEYA)

  • Member of the Brazilian Society for the Study of Pain (SBED)

  • Member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).

  • Member of the Brazilian Society of Obesity Medicine (SBEMO)

  • Managing Partner of the Multidisciplinary Center for Pain and Healthy Aging (NUMIDES)

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Lisset K. V. da Costa, MD

Peru

Director

  • Doctor of Medicine - ELAM (Latin American School of Medicine) Cuba

  • Doctor of Medicine revalidated in Brazil  

  • Medical Fellowship in Gynecology and Obstetrics - HC UFPE

  • Medical Fellowship - Fetal Medicine - USP - RP

  • Medical Fellowship - Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Ginecology - AMB 

  • Obesity Medicine Board Certified by the Brazilian Board of Obesity Medicine - SBEMO

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Ana Maria Cardozo, MD

Bolivia

Director

  • Medical Fellowship in Internal Medicine from the Mayor de San Simon University

  • Medical Fellowship in Endocrinology at IEDE/PUC-RJ

  • Member of the Bolivian Society of Endocrinology and Metabology

  • Obesity Medicine Board Certified by the Brazilian Board of Obesity Medicine - SBEMO

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Vinicius Siqueira, MD

Brazil

Director

  • Graduated in Medicine from Gama Filho University

  • Postgraduate in Endocrinology from IPEMED

  • Endocrinology Professor at Barbacena FAME Medical School

  • Preceptor of the Endocrinology Outpatient Clinic at Agostinho Paulucci University Hospital

  • Professor and preceptor of the Endocrinology Outpatient Clinic at Afya

  • Director, Certified Member, and Professor at SBAM - Society of Andropause and Menopause

  • Director of EBOM - European Board of Obesity Medicine

  • Member of SBD (Brazilian Society of Diabetes)

  • Member of the Endocrine Society and the World Obesity Federation

  • Clinical Endocrinology from Harvard Medical School - USA

  • Annual Review Course in Endocrinology and Diabetes from the American

  • Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, AACE / USA

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Bruno Menezes, MD

Brazil

Director

  • Medical Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism - IPEMED

  • Medical Fellowship in Nutrology - ABRAN

  • Medical Fellowship in Integrative Medicine - UNIUBE

  • Continuing Medical Education in Sports Medicine - Health Metrix Institute

  • Rio de Janeiro - RJ

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Patrick Ferreira Brito, MD

Brazil

Director

  • Medical Fellowship in Obesity and Sarcopenia Sciences- FANESE

  • Obesity Medicine Board Certified by the Brazilian Board of Obesity Medicine – SBEMO 

  • Member of the Endocrine Society 

  • Obesity Medicine Board Certified by the Pan American Board Of Obesity Medicine, PABOM 

  • Medical Fellowship in Sports Medicine, IBCMED

  • Medical Fellowship in Nutrition and Metabolism, UNIGUAÇU

  • Medical Fellowship in Exercise Physiology, UVA

  • Medical Residency Medical Clinic, HMCC-SP

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Alberto Ortiz

Costa Rica

Director

  • General and Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Universidad de Costa Rica

  • Endoscopic Surgery, Universidad de Concepción, Chile 

  • Head of Endoscobesidad , Bariatric Endoscopy Clinic 

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Rocío Miluska
Parrales Donayre

Peru

Directora

  • Especialización en Gastroenterología y
    Endoscopia / Universidad Ricardo Palma

  • Diplomado en Auditoria Basado en Evidencias Médico Cirujano / Universidad Privada de Ciencias Aplicadas UPC

  • Research Fellowship en
    Endoscopia Bariátrica
    Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São
    Paulo - Universidad de São Paulo

  • Maestría en Investigación Clínica Universidad de San Martín de Porres

  • Capacitación en Endoscopia Bariátrica / Instituto IFEC

  • Diplomado Alta Especialización en Gerencia de Servicios de Salud
    Universidad ESAN Graduate School of Business /Universidad Javeriana de Colombia

  • Capacitación en Detección temprana de Cáncer de
    Estómago - Instituto Cancerológico de Bogotá – Colombia

  • Observership - Capacitación en Endoscopia Digestiva Avanzada Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo

  • Post-Grado Lato Sensu
    Especialización en Medicina de la Obesidad
    Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina da Obesidade - Ensine Faculdade

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