About

Scientific Advisors

GI Dynamics' scientific advisors are a prestigious, multidisciplinary group of leaders dedicated to advancing research for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders.

Chief Medical Advisor

  • Keith Gersin, M.D., F.A.C.S., Chief of Bariatric Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, U.S.

Endocrinology

  • Hanno Pijl, M.D., Professor of Diabetology, University of Leiden, Leiden University Medical Center, Dept. of Endocrinology & Metabolic Disease, the Netherlands
  • John Buse, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Director of Diabetes Care Center, Chief of Division of Endocrinology, Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Research, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.
  • Christopher Sorli, M.D., F.A.C.E., Chair, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Billings Clinic; Adjunct Clinical Professor, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT, U.S.

Gastroenterology

  • Manoel Galvao Neto, M.D., Scientific Coordinator, Gastro Obeso Center, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Lee M. Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Director, MGH Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, U.S.
  • Richard Rothstein, M.D., Section Chief, Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth, NH, U.S.

Bariatric Surgery

  • Ricardo V. Cohen, M.D., President of the Brazilian Society for Bariatric and Metabloic Surgery,Co-director, Center for the Surgical Treatment of Morbid Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Alex Escalona, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Digestive Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Jan Willem Greve, M.D., Ph.D., Gastrointestinal and Bariatric Surgery, Atrium Medical Center Parkstad, Heerlen, Netherlands

Medical Weight Loss Specialists

  • Caroline Apovian, M.D., F.A.C.N., Director, Nutrition and Weight Management Center, and Co-director, Nutrition and Metabolic Support Service, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, U.S.
  • Louis Aronne, M.D., F.A.C.P., Director, Comprehensive Weight Control Program, New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College; Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University; Assistant Attending Physician, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, U.S.
  • Robert Kushner, M.D., M.S., Clinical Director, Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity; Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, U.S.