AOCO – 2009 Organising Committee
Patron
  Dr. B K Goyal
Chairmen
Dr. K Ramamoorthy   Dr. Ramen Goel
Organising Secretaries
Dr. Rajul Mesvani   Dr. Pallavi Patankar
Treasurer
Dr Madhu Goel
Members
  Dr. Aashish Contractor

Dr. Jagdish Chandra

Dr. Jagmeet Madan

Dr. Janaki Srinath

Dr. M.G. Bhat

Dr. Mohan Badgandi

Dr. Praveen Amin		 Dr. Rajesh Parekh

Dr. Shashank Joshi

Dr. Shrihari Dhorepatil

Dr. Mahendra Narwaria

Dr. Niranjana Shah

Dr. Ramesh Goyal

Dr. Shashi Latha
International Scientific Committee
Chairman
  Prof.  Hemraj B. Chandalia
Members
Australia Australia Denmark Denmark
  • Ian Caterson
  • Tim Gill
  • Kate Steinbeck
  • Gary Wittert
  • Arne Astrup
HongKong HongKong India India
  • Gary Ko
  • Rama Vaidya
japan Japan Korea Korea
  • Shuji Inoue
  • Kazuwa Nakao
  • Hironobu Yoshimatsu
  • Woong Hwan Choi
malaysia Malaysia New Zealand New Zealand
  • Ismail Mohammed Noor
  • Elaine Rush
Phillipines Phillipines Sinapore Singapore
  • Rosa Allyn Sy
  • Chung Horn Lee
Sweden Sweden Taiwan Taiwan
  • Stephan Rossner


  • Chih-Jen Chang
  • Yi Ching Yang
UK UK USA USA
  • Phillip James
  • David Allison
  • Claude Bouchard
  • Nikhil Dhurandhar
Scientific Advisory Committee
Members
India India
  • Swati Bhave
  • Manisha Chandalia
  • Anoop Misra
  • Sonal Modi
  • V Mohan
  • Vijay Negalur
  • Pratima Rajan
  • Rekha Sharma
  • Shobha Udipi
  • Chittaranjan Yajnik
Convenors, Asia Oceania Metabolic Surgery Summit
India USA India India
  • Dr. Francesco Rubino
  • Dr. Phil Schauer
  • Dr. Pradeep Choubey
  • Dr. Shashank Joshi
Convenors, Metabolic Surgery Master Class
India India
  • Dr. Sanjay Borude
  • Dr. Muffazzal Lakdawala
  • Dr. Shashank Shah
Convenor, Bariatic Allied Health Program
India India
  • Dr. Poonam Shah