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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Contributors

4 President’s Foreword
Khaled Gawdat

6 Preface
Khaled Gawdat

7 Acknowledgments
Khaled Gawdat

8 Chapter One
History of Metabolic Bariatric Surgery
Henry Buchwald

14 Chapter Two
The Pioneers: The Three Fathers - Mason, Scopinaro, Buchwald
Jane Buchwald, Francesco Saverio Papadia

27 Chapter Three
The Birth and Growth of IFSO: From the First Meeting to a Global Federation of Chapters
Martin Fried, Karl Miller, Henry Buchwald, Rafael Álvarez Cordero, Natan Zundel,
Harry Frydenberg, Lilian Kow, Khaled Gawdat

51 Chapter Four
The Laparoscopic Revolution in Metabolic Bariatric Surgery
Luigi Angrisani, Francesco Angrisani, Francesco Saverio Papadia, Nicola Di Lorenzo,
Maurizio De Luca

55 Chapter Five
The Obesity Surgery Journal
Scott A. Shikora

60 Chapter Six
IFSO Presidents and World Congresses
Scott A. Shikora

77 Chapter Seven
The Administrative Renaissance and Era of Global Expansion (2010-2026)
Khaled Gawdat

80 Chapter Eight
IFSO Now: The Dawn of Combination Therapies and Life-long Care
Khaled Gawdat

83 Epilogue