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17 - Luigi Angrisani 2013-2014 Italy
Professor Angrisani has been a leading figure in Italian MBS for
decades. In 1999, together with his mentor and friend, Nicola
Scopinaro, he chaired the First International Symposium of
Laparoscopic Obesity Surgery (ISLOS) in Naples. Elected
President of the Italian Society of Obesity Surgery (SICOB) in 2006,
he served in that role from 2008-2010, before serving as President
of IFSO from 2013-2014. During his IFSO presidency, he was a
primary champion for early-career surgeons, heavily supporting
the foundation and integration of the "Young-IFSO" chapter. He
also chaired and authored major international clinical consensus
statements, including widely cited updates on managing patients
with a high body mass index. Building on the global survey
inaugurated by Scopinaro and Buchwald, Angrisani has carried
forward the recurring IFSO Worldwide Survey, summarizing
global trends in MBS, one of the most cited series of papers
published in Obesity Surgery. The Italian Society of Surgery
awarded Angrisani the Ettore Ruggieri Prize in 2018 for his two
decades of research on gastroesophageal reflux and obesity. He
later chaired the IFSO Board of Trustees from 2019-2020, and
organized and presided over the 2023 IFSO World Congress in
Naples.

18 - Rudolf Weiner 2014-2015 Germany

Professor Weiner was among the founders of laparoscopic obesity
surgery in Germany, leading the MBS department at Krankenhaus
Sachsenhausen in Frankfurt that became the first in the country to
earn national and international Center of Excellence certification.
A long-serving leader of the German Society for Surgery of
Obesity, Weiner served as its president from 2005-2013. He was
President of the IFSO European Chapter (IFSO-EC) from
2010-2012, and organized and presided over the 2011 IFSO
World Congress in Hamburg. Following his regional leadership,
he assumed the office of organizational President of IFSO from
2014-2015. Weiner has authored several German-language
textbooks on obesity surgery and served on the editorial boards
of Obesity Surgery, Obesity Facts, and other journals. In 2014, he
moved to Sana Klinikum Offenbach, where he founded a new
Clinic for Obesity and Metabolic Surgery, which was also certified
as a Center of Excellence.

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