Faculty
Activity Directors
Raul J. Rosenthal MD, FACS, FASMBS
Activity Director
Regional Chairman, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida
Chairman, Department of General Surgery
Director, General Surgery Residency Program
Director, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Co-Director, Advanced GI Surgical Fellowship
Ellen Lifer Shulman and Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Center at Cleveland Clinic
Weston, Florida.
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
R. Matthew Walsh, MD, FACS
Co-Activity Director, Surgery of the Foregut Symposium
Professor of Surgery
Rich Family Distinguished Chair of Digestive Diseases
Chairman, Department of General Surgery,
Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute
Chairman, Academic Department of Surgery
Education Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Fernando D. Dip, MD, FACS
Co-Activity Director, ISFGS Congress
Director, Training Center for Fluorescence Guided Surgery
Hospital de Clinicas Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires
Executive Director, ISFGS
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Planning Committee
Adam Feldman, PA-C
Director, APRN PA
Cleveland Clinic Florida – Weston
Kerry Major, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Florida Regional Chief Nursing Officer
Chief Nursing Officer, Weston Hospital
Cleveland Clinic Florida – Weston
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Ali Aminian, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Eren Berber, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Elad Boaz, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Marylise Boutros, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Nicolas Brozzi, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Lillian Craggs, RD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Matthew Kroh, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Martin Newman, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Ana Pena, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Miguel Rodriguez, DO
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Michael Rosen, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Mayank Roy, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Westo, Florida
Federico Serrot, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida Martin Health
Stuart, Florida
Samuel Szomstein, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Steven Wexner, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Guest Faculty
Omar Bellorin-Marin, MD
Weill Cornell Medicine New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York
Michael Bouvet, MD
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California
Thomas Carus, MD
Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Hamburg, Germany
Manish Chand, MD
Cancer Research UK
London, England
Anna Duprée, MD
University Cancer Center
Hamburg, Germany
Joao Paulo Epprecht, MD
IRCAD - Rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sheldon Feldman, MD
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, New York
Takeaki Ishizawa, MD
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Jakob Izbicki, MD
University of Hamburg Medical Institutions
Hamburg, Germany
Marina Kurian, MD
NYU Langone
New York, New York
Enrique Lanzarini, MD
Clínica Universidad de los Andes
Santiago, Chile
Oliver Mann, MD
University Medical Center
Hamburg, Germany
Rana Pullatt, MD
Medical College of South Carolina
Charlotte, South Carolina
Alberto Rancati, MD PhD
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Homero Rodriguez, MD
Pacifica Salud Hospital
Panama City, Panama
Diego Sinagra, MD
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Giuseppe Spignolio, MD
FPO Candolo Institute IRCCS
Turin, Italy
Laurents Stassen, MD
Maastricht University Medical Center
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Catherine Teh, MD
Mankati Medical Center
Manila, Philippines
Andre Teixeira, MD
Orlando Health
Orlando, Florida
Hernan Todeschini, MD
Hospital de Clinicas de San Martin
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alex Vahrmeijer, MD
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
Eric Vibert, MD
Paul Brousse Hospital
Villejuif, France
Ory Weisel, MD
Baruch-Padeh Medical Center of the North
Poria, Israel
Katsuya Yamada, PhD
Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine
Hirosaki-shi, Japan
Natan Zundel, MD
University of Buffalo
Buffalo, New York