Biography
Nezar Abdulateef Almahfooz
Senior Consultant General, GIT,
Metaboilc & Bariatric surgeon
Almowasat Private Hospital-Basrah-Iraq
Faruk Medical City- Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

Almahfooz NA, Is a Board degree certified general surgeon from the Council of Arab Board Surgery (CABS) 1992. He is senior consultant general, GIT, Bariatric and Metabolic surgeon in Faruk Medical City, Sulaymaniyah, Leader & Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery of Almowasat private hospital, Basrah-Iraq. Formerly head department surgery Teaching Hospital Basrah. Has pioneered the advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery in Iraq for the last 14 years. Having many international and regional memberships: Member of the International Federation of Obesity Surgery (IFSO), Member Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Fellow of American College of Surgeons (FACS), Fellow of American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), , Member Society of Laparoscopic Surgery (SLS), Egyptian and Arab societies of laparoscopic surgery (ESLS) & (ASLS), Establishing member & head scientific committee of Iraqi Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (IQSMBS). Having more than 23 published articles in general, minimally invasive & bariatric surgery, Introduce many novel minimally invasive surgical techniques in Iraq.