Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Dr Bruce M. Wolfe
Bruce M. Wolfe, MD is a graduate of Stanford University and the St. Louis University School of Medicine. His surgical training was completed at St. Louis University. He did additional research training at Harvard Medical School. He recently relocated from the University of California Davis to Oregon Health & Science University, where he serves at Professor of Surgery.
Dr. Wolfe has devoted his surgical career to surgical nutrition and specifically obesity, including the surgical care of obese patients and related research. He has made many contributions to the advancement of the surgical treatment of obesity, including a demonstration of the many benefits of laparoscopic surgery. He presently serves as the chair of the National Institutes of Health research consortium on bariatric surgery, known as LABS. He has participated in approximately 1000 bariatric surgical procedures in his career.
Dr Carel le Roux
Dr Carel le Roux graduated from the University of Pretoria. He obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and the Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists in the UK. Following his Wellcome Clinical Research Fellowship his PhD on appetite control resulted in him being awarded a Clinician Scientist Award by the Department of Health to further his research career as a Reader at Imperial College London. His continued research focuses on appetite control by using human and animal models of weight loss such as bariatric surgery. His work explores mechanisms involved in the gut brain axis.
Dr Ken Sikaris
Ken is a science and medical graduate of Melbourne University and has worked as a chemical pathologist in both university teaching hospitals and private pathology for almost 20 years. He has broad interests including external quality assurance and laboratory accreditation as well as tumour markers particularly PSA. His extensive range of collaboration in research includes publications on lipid metabolism, testosterone, age and gender specific determination of 'healthy' reference intervals and more recently the promotion of the use of HbA1c for diagnosis of diabetes and prediabetes. Ken is an Ambassador for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and a highly respected and sought after speaker who gives about one hundred lectures each year to undergraduate, postgraduate, medical and allied health audiences both nationally and internationally.
