National Medical Director

Paul O'Brien, MD National Medical Director

Paul O'Brien MD, FRACS is the Director of the Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE), a major research centre within Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Monash University, retiring in 2004 as Head of the University's Department of Surgery at the Alfred Hospital from 1986.

His current principal areas of clinical and research interest are in the morbidity of obesity and the health benefits of weight loss. He is Past President of the Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand (1997—2004), a member of the James IV Association of Surgeons and a member of Council of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFS0). He was the President of the 11th World Congress of IFS 0, held in Sydney, Australia in August/September, 2006.

He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Obesity Surgery." He chairs the Medical Devices Evaluation Committee (MDEC) of the Therapeutic Goods Administration of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. He has published more than 180 papers in the medical literature and has been active in conducting numerous postgraduate courses and workshops on obesity and its treatments in Australia, USA, countries of the Asia-Pacific region, South America and Canada.