Ralph Peterli, MD

Prof. Ralph Peterli is an academic Metabolic-Bariatric Surgeon at the University of Basel, ViszeraMed and Männedorf Hospital in Zürich, Switzerland Ralph Peterli is an active visceral surgeon (>17000 operations) and researcher with main interests in clinical trials including a number of relevant randomized clinical trials, basic research of obesity and diabetes including translational research on mechanisms of metabolic-bariatric operations. As member of the executive council of the European Chapter of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO-EC) he is “rapporteur” to EASO and it is his goal to bring basic researchers in the field of obesity, nutrition and diabetes together with clinicians (physicians and surgeons) in combined international and national congresses and meetings.