Board of Directors

Norihiro Kokudo, MD, PhD, FACS

School of Medicine University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

Michael Bouvet, MD

Professor of Surgery
Director of Endocrine Surgery
Division of Surgical Oncology
Department of Surgery
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California USA

Takeaki Ishizawa, MD, PhD, FACS

Hepato-biliary-pancreatic Surgery Division,
Department of Surgery
Graduate School of Medicine
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Fernando Dip, MD

Hospital de Clinicas Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cleveland, OH, USA

Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Clinical Professor of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at CWRU
Chairman, Department of General Surgery
Director, General Surgery Residency Program
Director, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida USA