FACULTY

Executive Director
PHILIP R. SCHAUER, MD
Director Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric & Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Click here  for Dr. Schauer's biography

Colon

Morris Franklin, MD
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

We are in the process of assembling the 2011 MISS faculty.  To receive email updates regarding MISS faculty please contact kathy.wenzler@qhc.com.

Below is the 2010 Colon Faculty. 

Dan Geisler, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

John Marks, MD
Lankenau Hospital/Main Line Health Systems
Wynnewood, PA

Eduardo Parra Davila, MD 
Florida Hospital 
Celebration, FL

Alessio Pigazzi, MD
City of Hope National Center
Duarte, CA

Gustavo Plasencia, MD 
Avanced Surgical Institute at Mercy Hospital
Miami, FL

Barry Salky, MD
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY

Hernia
Adrian Park, MD
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR
University of Maryland Medical Center  
Baltimore, MD

We are in the process of assembling the 2011 MISS faculty.  To receive email updates regarding MISS faculty please contact kathy.wenzler@qhc.com.

Below you will find the 2010 MISS Hernia Faculty

Bruce Ramshaw, MD
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR
University of Missouri 
Columbia, MO

Brian Jacob, MD
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY

Archana Ramaswamy, MD
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO

Michael Rosen, MD
University Hospital Center
Cleveland, OH

Guy Voeller, MD
University of Tennessee
Memphis, TN

Foregut Surgery
 
William O. Richards, MD
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR
University of South Alabama
Birmingham, AL

We are in the process of assembling the 2011 MISS faculty.  To receive email updates regarding MISS faculty please contact kathy.wenzler@qhc.com.

Below you will find the 2010 MISS foregut surgery faculty

Lee Swanstrom, MD
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR
The Oregon Clinic
Portland, OR

Blair Jobe, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Brant Oelschlager, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

David Rattner, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Morbid Obesity/Bariatric Surgery

John Dixon, MD
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR - MORBID OBESITY
Monash University/Alfred Hospital
Melbourne, Australia

Bruce Wolfe, MD
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR - MORBID OBESITY
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR

We are in the process of assembling the 2011 MISS faculty.  To receive email updates regarding MISS faculty please contact kathy.wenzler@qhc.com.

Below you will find the 2010 MISS morbid obesity faculty

Jeffrey Allen, MD
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Louis Arrone, MD
Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY

Robin Blackstone, MD
Scottsdale Bariatric Center  
Scottsdale, AZ

Stacy Brethauer, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH

Guilherme Campos, MD
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

Ricardo Cohen, MD
Sao Camilio Hospital
Sao Paulo, Brazil

*David Cummings, MD
UW School of Medicine
Seattle, WA

David Flum, MD
UW School of Medicine
Seattle, WA

Harry Frydenberg, MD
President, International Federation for the Surgery Obesity and Metabolic Disorders

Bill Gourash, MSN, CRNP
Magee-Women's Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA

Leslie Heinberg, PhD
Cleveland Clinic
Ceveland, OH

Sam Klein, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Edward Livingston, MD
University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine
Dallas, TX

Kenneth G. MacDonald, Jr, MD
Southern Surgical Association
Greenville, NC

Georgeann Mallory, RD
Executive Director, ASBMS

Kathleen McCauley, JD
Goodman, Allen & Filletti, PLLC
Glen Allen, VA

Ninh T. Nguyen, MD
University of California, Irvine Medical Center
Orange, CA

Robert O'Rourke MD
Oregon Health & Sciences University
Portland, OR

Jaime Ponce, MD
Hamilton Medical Group
Dalton, GA

Walter Pories, MD
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC

Tom Rogula, PhD
Cleveland Clinic
Ceveland, OH

Mitchell Roslin, MD
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, NY

Francesco Rubino, MD
Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY

Donna Ryan, MD
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, LA

James Saxton, JD
Stevens & Lee, PC
Lancaster, PA

Bruce Schirmer, MD
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, VA

Scott Shikora, MD
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Boston, MA

*Invited Faculty

NOTE: Faculty subject to change