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Dr. Nilton Kawahara

Surgeon at Hospital das Clínicas, USP Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bariatric Surgery
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He graduated in medicine from the University of São Paulo (1984) and has a PhD in Surgery from the University of São Paulo (1998). He is currently a surgeon at the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, where he is an assistant physician in Trauma Surgery and a collaborating professor in Surgical Technique at FMUSP. His lines of research include bariatric surgery and laparoscopy, obesity surgery and laparoscopy, diabetes surgery, sleeve gastrectomy and emergency laparoscopy. He is the organizer and coordinator of the Bariatric Endoscopic Surgery Trends (BEST) course, held annually in Brazil and internationally in Portugal. He was vice-president of the Brazilian Society of Bariatric Surgery (SBCB) and a founding member of the Brazilian Society of Laparoscopic Surgery (SOBRACIL).